The Travel journey begins... but not quite as expected..

My return to travel has been long anticipated. I left the industry 11 years ago to earn my fortune in the recruitment industry. I am most certainly no Elon Musk and the thought of me inventing an underground self-driving motorway system in Los Angeles or rescuing a trapped football team with submarines from a Thai cave, is far beyond my imagination. That said, I worked hard and did ok, fighting the good fight in the dog eat dog world of recruitment. But this short story is not about dogs or my modest financial success, so please do stay with me and read on…I won't keep you long. This story is about my cat – Pele. A few stats - 11 years old, jet black, microchipped and whilst loveable, also intensely annoying most of the time. Pele decided to go walkabout the very week of my new travel business launch. My diary was jam packed that week with destination guides, training notes, IT queries, marketing, cyber security, fraud and audit (surprisingly interesting), as well as rubbing shoulders with my new travel company colleagues and directors. Pele's disappearance surprisingly didn't feature on my list of things to do, yet he managed to turn my priority list upside down for the entire week. After speaking to the neighbours and posting on the local lost and found Facebook pages, some kindly souls started sharing potential sightings of Pele across the whole of Macclesfield and surrounding towns! Whilst incredibly helpful, kind and sympathetic, I spent much of my week following up on various tip offs and responding to caring messages of support, rather than what to do if there is a cyber security attack which might affect thousands of travellers across the world! Thankfully I don't have to take care of the cyber security, we have an amazing team in place at Travel Counsellors to do that for me. Phew! So, rather than my first week being spent dreaming about incredible holiday destinations to all corners of the globe, instead I got to know about every nook and cranny of Macclesfield, half of which I never even knew existed. The end of this story is a positive one though. Just as I was beginning to give up hope on Pele and after an incredibly busy week, in rocked Pele in the early hours of Saturday morning. Thin and hungry but thankfully ok. Among the many things I learnt during my business launch, I guess the moral of the story is twofold. 1. I am now an expert destination guide for walking tours of Macclesfield. 2. No matter what life throws at you, don't give up fighting for what is important to you. Thanks for reading and Meow for now.. Jonny