Get ready for New Year's Eve with us!
It's time to prepare to celebrate the end of 2020! I don't know about you, but I have mixed feelings about this year, which is perhaps an understatement. It has been a very difficult year in many ways as we have all dealt with a pandemic and its repercussions in all facets of our lives. On the other hand, this year we have appreciated and valued much more the time we spend with family and friends. I have dedicated this year to simplifying my life and using time wisely. When your options are limited, you choose to do the things that are most important to you – spend time with the people you love and worry about the things that really matter.
How will you celebrate the end of the year? We are going to spend a few days in the country, as a family. On January 1, 2020, we bathed in the sea. Although it is the Mediterranean, it was still frozen! But afterward, rosy-cheeked and bundled up in warm clothes, we felt great. This is definitely a tradition I will continue with this new year. I want to put the year 2020 behind me and remove all the worries and stress that have come with it.
Let's prepare a cocktail of cava, blackberries and thyme, to celebrate New Year's Eve.
Ingredients
Cava or Champagne
Blackberries
Sugar
Fresh thyme
Instructions
1.
In a small saucepan, bring 3/4 of the berries to a boil, with equal parts water and sugar. Lower the heat and let it simmer for 10 minutes. Strain the blackberries and allow the syrup to cool.
2.
Add 2 tablespoons of syrup to the bottom of each glass. Top with champagne/cava and add a sprig of thyme and 2 blackberries.
1.
In a small saucepan, bring 3/4 of the berries to a boil, with equal parts water and sugar. Lower the heat and let it simmer for 10 minutes. Strain the blackberries and allow the syrup to cool.
2.
Add 2 tablespoons of syrup to the bottom of each glass. Top with champagne/cava and add a sprig of thyme and 2 blackberries.
I have always used the New Year as a moment of reflection, a time for well-being and to think about the year that is going and the year that is to come. I like to write, meditate and be in nature. Whatever you choose to do on New Year's Eve, and however you decide to celebrate the end of 2020, I would like to wish you and your family a happy and healthy 2021. Thank you for all your support throughout the year. And please, let's keep in touch – we have lots of exciting plans for the coming year.
From my family to yours, Happy New Year.
