When life mixes work and pleasure holidays cease to be a thing apart. That is what got me started with Alpkit, and is why I am never going to be any great business person. The threads running through my life, the interests, work, personal life are a small plate of spaghetti.
This trip has turned out to be no different. Don’t get me wrong, maybe it is just something about being single that you look for things to fill in, but the tell tale signs of a gazebo, stickers and a few other bits and pieces stashed in the van along side the solitary bag of clothes are a dead give away that I have gone back for another plateful.
I think it is about being involved, having a role to play.
Col recently took his family to Australia. He took less than I (or he) would pack for a day at Stanage and he was away for 3 weeks, wife and 2 kids! Anyways back to this Italian trip, where did the strands of spaghetti in my bowl lead?
The meat of the holiday was Melloblocco, a week of some of the best bouldering in Europe. I had no form to speak of, but I was looking forward to roughening up my fingers on the rough granite blocks and closing down some long standing accounts.