Feels Like Coming Home

‘It took a while to sink in. I was home but I didn’t have to do anything’

- Emma Samms

I don’t do holidays. I travel so much for work that the last thing I want to do when I have time off is to go away. Also, I’m lucky enough to live in one of the most beautiful parts of the world – people come here for their holidays, for goodness sake – so why spend a fortune and go somewhere else?

The only problem with this line of thinking is that if you don’t schedule a proper holiday, give notice to your colleagues that you’re officially ‘Out of Office’ for a designated period of time and make it clear that you probably won’t be able to read emails, even if you wanted to, then it’s actually quite difficult to ever fully switch off and completely relax.

A friend, who knows me well, suggested I take an official holiday, but at home. An extreme ‘Staycation’, if you wish. “Tell everyone you’re taking a holiday”, he said. “Nobody has to know that you’re not actually going anywhere. Don’t schedule anything work-related and actually give yourself a break.”