Home and thoughtful...

Yay we are home again :)
It's been a strange week. I don't even feel like I was in Spain about 6 hours ago! Getting on a plane to Barcelona feels more like a bus journey than getting on a plane, I've done it so many times!

I've just been looking at photos and articles on the fire yesterday. It's quite emotional looking at the photos. Seeing guys I recognise looking quite distressed and realising what one small flame can cause.
I came out of our truck yesterday wondering why everything was so smoky outside. I looked toward the other end of the paddock and saw black smoke bellowing out but didn't know where it was coming from. I walked out to the front of the garage to find out and saw some of our guys running back with empty fire extinguishers, coughing and looking pretty dazed. We could hardly see past the Ferrari garage with all the smoke in the paddock.
I've seen a few comments about the camaraderie between teams. And although F1 is about racing and competing against each other, when I first started I was surprised at the friendliness between teams. We are all there for the same reason, doing the same job and I think there is a sense of neutral thinking that goes on. We often catch the same flights as various other teams and it's almost like seeing the same friends at the airport week in week out!
Although the photographs I am looking at are of horrendous scenes, they are, as people are saying, also nice photos of how everyone in the paddock are able to help each other out and it's nice to know I work in such an environment. I wish I wasn't looking at photos like this to realise it though.
It's such a shame that this happened and Williams couldn't celebrate their victory as they should have been able to. I hope they will recover from it quickly and be on top form for Monaco again! I'm sure they will! :)

Barcelona is one of my lesser favourite races, because I have been there so many times Testing! At least the sun was out though and life is all about learning from mistakes. I think that's a lesson with everything! I know i've made mistakes in the past and I look back and realise how far i've come because of them. Not just in a work sense but personally.

Now that I have a few days back in the UK I'm going to make the most out of using my new mountain bike and planning fun things to do with the rest of my year! (when i'm not working!)

First things first... Iceland... I'm going to be researching this for a while :) I've still got the tent by a lake image  constantly stuck in my head and I need to do it so that my image can be replaced with a new one!