In the past 1.5 years I’ve had a blast. Visited Istanbul, Turkey, then went over to Cairo Egypt and stayed there for a year. This year was happy and challenging. Moving to a different country is always challenging, but when it has such a different culture, it was truly amazing. Made some friends, some amazing people – and had some enemies like everyone else. Most part of this year in Egypt I was dieting: first I was getting ready for the WABBA Universe last November. That prep didn’t really go well for different reasons. Then had some time off and started prepping again for the WABBA Hercules Olympia in May in the UK, then the NABBA Worlds in June in Malta and finally the WFF Universe in France the week after. Just before I left for the competition in Malta I decided not to return to Egypt anymore. I came back to Hungary to see my family and relax a bit. It was a long dieting, I was very exhausted. I stayed a bit longer than I planned. I haven’t seen my family for 2 years so I guess this visit was due.

We have done a lot of things together: went to open markets, went cycling with my dad a few times, had birthday parties and BBQs, made some new friends in the gym where I trained and generally I had a great time. But everything comes to an end and now I’m getting ready to return to the UK.

I will return on the 16th September, staying again near Heathrow. I haven’t got a place yet but I’m constantly looking. Probably will not be able to rent a place through an estate agent because they need work references which I haven’t got yet, but I will have to look for a private landlord. If anyone knows anything, please let me know!

Here are a few photos from my stay in Hungary. I have some more on my phone, I will post them later: