Glad That We Did

This is a picture taken in France, we nearly didn't go, but it's one of my I'm so glad we did!

I’m running a pre retirement workshop next week in Cambridge. This has kindly been given to me to help with my preparation and research. It was written by someone attending a retirement course. When they broke for coffee – one man stayed behind and started writing on his note-pad, this is what he wrote:-




“In 1990 a couple borrowed almost as much as the price of their house to buy a motor-caravan.



They did this on the strict understanding that should they face financial hard times then the van would go in order to make the money situation good again.



Over the next 13 years they travelled all around Middle Europe and made many friends around the country.



In 2002 they bought a cottage in Normandy which they started to renovate.



In all of this their attitude was that they could look back and say they were glad they did these things, and not that they wished they had done them.



In September she died suddenly at 48 years of age.



He remains so happy that ‘they did’”