Bubbles for breakfast: Yes or No…? Last year my husband and I won a prize at the Christmas raffle at my daughter’s school: ´a night stay including dinner and breakfast´ at a local hotel near us, the Guadalmina Hotel. It is a great place and pretty funny –> we live literally an 8-minute drive away but have néver visited it…
Hotel Guadalmina
Anyway, so we were very lucky to win this and off we were yesterday. Then this morning I went downstairs for the breakfast buffet. I ❤️ breakfast buffets so I was excited!! The evening before, at arrival as well as during dinner, I didn’t even bat an eyelash (-lid?!) about booze/no booze as I’m very comfortable not drinking at the moment. The last time I drank alcohol outside an airport/aeroplane was on 3rd May 2019 and this hasn´t cost me a lot of effort to be honest with you. I´m getting seriously used to being a non-drinker by now. And last night even my husband had an alcohol free beer as he’s doing Dry January.
Breakfast time…
Back to this morning… I walked into the restaurant and there it was… a bottle of cold Cava!!! Sparkling wine… Droplets were falling down from the bottle, like in a bloody commercial. Lying there, in an ice bucket, waiting to be poured… Bubbles for breakfast. If there’s ánything I loved when I was still drinking it was Mimosas at breakfast on trips away!
But I´m a non-drinker now, so I didn’t have any. And I didn’t réally consider having a Mimosa bút this was one of the very few moments since I quit drinking that I was a bit sad that I can´t drink ‘like a normal person´. And that I have such an addictive personality. I was also thinking, “What a shame they don’t offer non-alcoholic bubbles as that would have been (almost) as fun!!” – so that’s a positive!
This feeling of discontent/self wallowing lasted very short though and 99,9% of the time I am SO HAPPY and grateful that I discovered life without alcohol as it TOTALLY ROCKS. Since I quit drinking alcohol I enjoy all the little things in day-to-day life so much more, it´s like my eyes have really opened. Finally! So all is good but just thought I’d share this moment with you too and not just the happy, bubbly other 99,9% of it. Gotta stay honest.
Anyway, we´re back home now and I am ready to make a delicious non-alcoholic Friday night cocktail! – Any ideas anyone?
PS: If you´re looking for a nice non-alcoholic bubbly I can totally recommend this sparkling white verdejo: Win Sparkling – Available at the Blue Dolphin Store!
