Mandatory walks twice a day
As the blood pressure stuff scared the sh*t out of me, I decided to not wait until the treadmill arrives this weekend and get my butt moving before it arrives. After all, it seems that the rainy days from last week with little to no sun are behind us again as the weather is absolutely lovely! Today I even saw it reached 21 degrees Celsius so it's perfect for a walk!
Flat area
The problem in the other home was simply living too far uphill. My knee was horrified every time that I made an attempt to get out for a walk, there were no options to do it without harming my knee and sending it back to square one where I could barely walk. It took months to heal, and then my back issue followed. Just my luck! So when we went for walks, we hopped in the car, drove downhill and walked on the boulevard for example. That's not needed anymore, as we live almost downhill and we can walk in all directions without having to walk up or downhill much. Love it!
Constant smile!
As soon as you leave the building, you're surrounded by flowers here. The first thing we see is some nice greenery with bright coloured flowers in our own community garden. Although it's mostly grass and a few trees, it sure helps to see this when leaving your home. Most of the times, we're greeted by at least 1 cat outside, as there are quite a few in this neighbourhood as well. Thankfully, it seems they're taken care of as we often see people feeding them or food and water buckets near the trees in the shade.
The typical Spanish street
I have always loved wandering through Spanish streets because I love the houses and the many bright flowers people have in their gardens. I mean, it's end of January and even now everything looks like it's spring, something I didn't find in Holland during winter time where it was mostly cold, rainy and cloudy during the winter months. I can't help but feeling overwhelmed with gratitude whenever I go for a walk here. The flowers are so bright that I need to take a picture every time I pass another beauty, lol.
A perfect round
Yesterday we walked a full round passing all the stores and restaurants in our neighbourhood while enjoying the scenery. I realized while walking that this was the perfect week to check the local health centre while passing it to walk in at a calm moment for an appointment for my daughter's eyes. I keep walking in there with huge crowds and was waiting for a good moment. I managed to get her an appointment for in a few weeks during our evening walk. And I didn't even need google translate, that always feels like a win! Now I need to bring some paperwork on one of the future walks as I need them to change some wrongly processed data in our names. Let's see if I can manage to get it done this week.
That weather, again
I can't help but pinch myself again when I realize how lucky I've been to have this great weather in the week that I need to push myself to get out more. It's been made very easy yesterday and today. Check out the forecast for the rest of the week:
No doubt I'm going to nail this twice a day walking every single day and motivate my boyfriend to join us at least once from now on. Even if just for 30 minutes. He's crazily busy but it's important that he will not end up with the blood pressure issues I had (Have) so I'm going to push him to do so a bit harder from now on.
Treat for my little lady
Who was kind enough to make it a very pleasant walk by joining me and be on her best behaviour. I picked up a baguette at the bakery and told her she could pick one of the very cool cookies. She picked the unicorn:
This bakery is absolutely outstanding compared to all other bakeries we've been to because whatever you buy here, it tastes great. It's well worth the money to get fresh baguette there when you are looking to prep a healthy sandwich because it's so much better than supermarket baguettes. I'm going to eat that less often from now on though as I'm trying out healthier bread varieties such as chick pea flat bread which I'm absolutely loving after two attempts already! More about that in one of the next posts.
Blood pressure
I hope your day is going as good as mine! I woke up with a wonderful blood pressure (it's been great since yesterday afternoon actually) and a clear mind, no complaints at all today. I feel great, and grateful... I hope you do too <3
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