I am finally back from my rather long vacation in Turkey and I was greeted by rain, cold weather, people saying they hate me for having such a vacation (hope they were kidding) and about 8000 spam messages in my work inbox!

It was a long first day on Monday: fighting junk and trying to find the legitimate emails took almost the whole day. At the end, I had about 40 marked for follow up. Then today, after finally completing the to do list, I felt like running back. Thinking of sunny skies, the blue see and great food while seeing the clouds outside and getting scared by the tasks swamping you is extremely counterproductive!

But I am back, with great new plans, a lot of ideas and tons of travel stories that you will soon see published on Travel Spells. It’s been great reconnecting with online friends on their blogs, via messenger or on twitter. I am happy to be back, don’t mind my whining, but it wouldn’t have hurt if I could have stayed a little longer, maybe until the official season closure, November 1st?

Greeting hugs to everyone,

Alina

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You might have notices my blog has run amok lately. Posts that never show up, although they’re weekly regulars, I’m not on Twitter as often, I comment less on other blogs and I’m generally keeping a low profile. And this situation will go on for the next three weeks. Why? Well, there’s a few things…

• Most of my team is on vacation and I’m practically alone in getting to important launches ready
• Some time consuming personal projects need to be taken care of before my vacation
• I’ll be on vacation for the next three weeks. And here’s a taste of how great it will all be!
• I somehow managed to accumulate so much tiredness, I can’t even think straight for more than half a day
• Getting everything ready for the vacation in the evening only, after work, has proven to be quite a challenge.

The good news is I have some interesting articles planned for all of you and some amazing bloggers will be guest posting here. Speaking of guest posting, if anyone’s interested, let’s talk! In the mean time, I’ll also cover my whole trip on Travel Spells.

Thank you all for understanding, for still being registered to my feed, for stopping by and commenting. I’ll be back with a new and improved blogging force after the vacation, promise! Oh, and don’t worry, I have an internet connection at the hotel, I’ll do my best to keep in touch!

Hugs,
Alina

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