Hello @ladiesofhive! I have just found this community and this contest that I am very happy to participate in ☺️
At first when I thought about my happy place, many locations would come to my mind. I have lived in 5 different countries and in everyone I have a happy place. Here I share my favourites in each country:
Playa de los Baños del Carmen - Málaga, Spain
I actually wrote a post about this beach recently. Málaga is a city where I have been coming and going. I moved there for the first time in 2008 and the last year I was living there was in 2020-2021. I came after the quarantine in Spain because of the pandemic and the summer of 2020 was a blast! In that beach I made a beautiful group of friends and I met my boyfriend. It's my favourite place for dancing, jamming, meeting new people and having fun! :D
Neckar River- Tübingen, Germany
It was in 2011 when I went to Tübingen as an Erasmus student and, seriously, I highly recommend everyone this experience. One of the best years of my life! My favourite place over there was near the river that crossed the city: Neckar. Especially in summer I loved to do picnics with my friends close to the river :D It was my first experience abroad and I remember it as a time to be my true authentic self.
Maas River - Maastricht, Netherlands
I spent two years living in Maastricht. From 2017 o 2019. In my second year I was lucky enough to find an amazing place to live by myself just in front of my favourite place: the river. These 2 years were actually tough, especially the last one. But also where I learned the most. I remember going everyday after work to the river and sit looking at the ducks and thinking: "oh, how lucky you are that you don't have to work or even think". I appreciate so much those walks among the river where my mind could find some momentary peace.
Freycinet Vineyard - Tasmania, Australia
This was such a magical experience! There is also another post where I talk about this. I went to Australia in 2015-2016 and ended up in Tasmania without a plan. Somehow I lived one of these experiences that I never thought I would live: working at the cellar door of a winery in the middle of nowhere. Literally the closest town (where there was just a bakery, supermarket, post office and pub) it was 20 minutes driving. I was living in a beautiful cottage surrounded by nature where big spiders were my company and housemates. A lot of adventures happened in that place.
Serenity - Canggu, Bali, Indonesia
Serenity! I miss this place so much! Here is where I spent almost 4 months after my tough time in the Netherlands. It is a place that offers eco-accommodation, yoga, massages, healthy food and a pool. So seriously, everything I need in just one place. And you know what's the best? I could just walk barefoot to the beach and arrive in 5 minutes! This place was where started the healing journey that I am living now and where I hope to be back soon.
My real Happy Place
And after going through all these places I have come up to the conclusion that my happy place is my heart. Being surrounded by nature and water, makes easier for me to connect with it, but at the end the physical places are just a trigger to connect with my real happy place 💓
Thank you for reading and sharing 🙏
Those places you've lived and spent time with are indeed amazing! And it is awesome that your happy place is really within you and that you can readily tap into it and be happy everywhere you go. All the best to you on the contest!
Thank you for your comment 🙏 It's been a journey to realize that. What I feel is that in my 20s I was passionate of exploring the world and now, in my 30s, I feel passionate of exploring my innerworld 🤗
It's a pleasure to read yours :) And I love this below:
It's a wonderful quest :)
wow amazing, you are a wanderer, it must be a great experience to live in different locations around the world. I wonder what will be your next destination. greetings, great post.
Thank you Ismael 🙏
So amazing to have lived in all of those places! Other than to go to Canada, I've never left my country, though I would love to travel. It just looks like it isn't the plan for me any time soon if ever. It is what it is, though, and I am happy for my life that I have. Keep all those memories close to your heart! Thanks for sharing and have a lovely day!
That's what it is important, to be happy in the place we are 😉 Also not everything is amazing when you travel and live abroad. Life has its up and downs wherever you are. Thank you for taking the time of reading and comment 🙏
You are very welcome!💜🤗
I was flicking through your post and saw you'd been to Tasmania, a place I dearly love (I'm Australian) and so I went back to the top and read your whole post. So good, thanks for sharing. You've had many experiences and clearly know all about the big spiders we have here...But yep, so cool you've experienced Tasmania, so many will never have the chance.
Maybe we'll see you sometime in THE WEEKEND community also as your content is certainly relevant.
Have a great weekend.
YES! Tasmania is a place that I never thought of going, but that I'm so glad I did. It's nature and views are stunning and hopefully I will be back some time to enjoy again the beauty of this island. Glad that you also share the feeling and thank you for your comment and recommendation of the weekend community 🤗
I have a friend there now, it's a good time with the changing of the seasons. I'd like to be there myself but work commitments mean I can't. Maybe later this year though.
Have a great weekend.
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Thank you 🙏 I am very happy to have found this community 😃
WOW... 5 PLACES? 😍😍😍😍😍
That is alot of places you had the luck to live in, and thank you so much for sharing your favorite happy places in each of them 🙏
LOVED IT ❤️
And not only the beautiful view but your spirit is amazing, to be happy wherever you find yourself.
That is a true gift 😊
Thank you for sharing and have a wonderful weekend. Cheers 🌹
Thank you for your comment 🙏
Yes, actually I feel very lucky to have lived these very different experiences, although sometimes I missed having a base. That's how I learned that my home is my body and not a physical place ❤️
Enjoy your weekend too! 🌞
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