This morning I went into town, picked up a rental car and drove 1½ hours south to some friends’ house in the country that I’ve borrowed for a few days.
Doesn’t it just look like a horrible place to be stuck? A timberframed, thatched cottage from 1850, complete with low ceilings and even lower door frames. And a wood burner. I’ve put fresh flowers in every room, light some candles and had lunch.
Curried pickled herring with eggs and liver pâté with pickled beet root, served on dark rye bread. It doesn’t get more Danish than that, except of course that I should have had a beer and a snaps with my lunch, rather than a glass of red wine.
There is very little to see or do around here, except relax and read and go for walks. Sure, there are some bronze age burial mounds here and there – as in most places in Denmark – and cute village churches scattered around the landscape, but fortunately I have the rental car so tomorrow I’ll visit the nearest art museum in the grounds of an old manor house, and perhaps on Wednesday I’ll visit the local cathedral at Maribo.
You see, there are advantages to being unemployed… If I can’t do this with a day’s notice now, when could I ever?
Absolutely…take advantage of the moment…looks like heaven to me!
It is wonderful! And so pretty it almost hurts – but only almost! 😉
It sounds like unemployment is a great preview for retirement — an opportunity to live in the moment and take advantage of unexpected opportunities. Only when you’re retired, you don’t have to worry about looking for a job! 😉
Your mini-holiday sounds lovely.
It’s nice to be “on holiday” and feel that I have set myself outside my normal life. It’s not unlike being in my own summer house of yore.
-Which means that tomorrow I need to do a few practical chores around the house and the garden so I’ll be welcome to borrow this little house again! And I like this little house, so I don’t mind caring a bit for it.
(Also, at present I could easily survive at least 3 years of unemployment before having to tighten my belt, so I’m not “worried” as such. Just bored.)