Hello Steemit! This is my very first post, a quick introduction about myself.

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Hello, I'm anna-bella. Recently a friend of mine talked to me briefly about Steemit, and I instantly felt this would be a very exciting place to get involved.
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Over the last 10 years or so, I have lived/worked in several different countries because of my profession (Japan, US, UK, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands), so I learned to appreciate different culture, lifestyle and food scene in each places. I have been wanting to start my blog based on my experience for years... and it seems like the time has finally arrived, in a perfect timing in an amazing platform!

Since I am currently based in Europe, I'll be posting about my life in Europe, sharing my passion in photography with a focus on lifestyle, travel and all the beautiful things I spot, such as restaurants and chic hotels. For example, this photo below was taken recently when I discovered an elegant restaurant called Pauly Saal in Berlin, Germany.

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I am particularly interested in things that have polished and sophisticated look. Beautiful things inspire me.. ranging from Ladurée's macarons to a gorgeous mountain view in Switzerland.

My passion for these things must have come from my mother. My mum used to take me to her favourite antique furniture shops to browse around, and she loved decorating our house with nice little things. I myself became a fan of interior/table styling as well (although my profession is absolutely nothing to do with interior design). This is just one of the pics of the dinner table I arranged for the recent festive season at home.

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By the way, my Steemit name 'anna-bella' is the name of a French restaurant, which my mum used to take me to on a special occasion when I was a little girl. I have fond memories of my childhood there.

On my next blog, I hope I can show you more about the restaurant Pauly Saal (Berlin, Germany) mentioned above.

Thanks for reading, I am looking forward to sharing my life in Europe stories with you as well as gaining lots of inspirations from the community!!

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Hello and Welcome to Steemit. I hope you will enjoy Steemit as much as I do. See you around! :-)

I wish you the best! Hope you gonna have fun with our community and see you soon.

Thanks for your warm wishes @hien-tran!

Hello Anna and welcome to steemit

Hello niloa, thanks!

Welcome to steemit, I and my partner used to go out and go to different restaurants too to try different cuisine so I'm hoping to check out your next blog about Pauly Saal Berlin. =)

in indonesia many types of food that can make appetite increase, come to indonesia, I will be very happy to welcome.

Thanks @bahtiarlangsa, I'd love to try authentic Indonesian cuisine one day!

Thanks @purepinay, it's great to be here. I'm looking forward to sharing my restaurants recommendations with you!

Welcome to Steemit @anna-bella. You’ll love it. Greetings from the lonely chef.

Thanks @tomber the lonely chef! Are you a chef from Belgium? When I was living in Belgium I found so many many fabulous restaurants, must be a fantastic place to be as a chef. I followed you!

Hallo @anna-bella! Wie geht es du?

Ich hoffe dass, du eine gute Zeit auf Steemit haben wirdst!

Vielen Dank, @awesomianist! Ich bin glücklich hier zu sein. My German is terrible, you can teach me : )

Welcome Anna-bella! I'm also a foodie and love fine dining - blame my father for that! :) Looking forward to following along with life in Europe and that fabulous sounding restaurant in Berlin.

I also write about food, so feel free to follow or drop by my blog :) Cheers!

Hello @sarahvain, thanks for your lovely comment. I followed you! Ohh sounds like we have things in common. I love champagne (of course!) , I think I'll be posting lots about champagne in the future : )

I like the way you think!! Every day is special, so why not bubbles every day? ;)

Absolutely @sarahvain, bubbles everyday indeed ; )

Bienvenida amiga, tu manera de escribir me parece muy espontanea, no te conozco personalmente pero a través de tu escrito puedo decir que es muy simpática.! saludos y éxitos, voy a seguirte espero tu también.

Thanks for your lovely comment @amestyj !

welcome Best of luck !!

Thanks good luck to you too @matytan!

Welcome to steemit i love it your post and your life ;) follow for follow! ;)

WELCOME! I can already tell you will do well on here! I cant wait to see what you write! My husband lived in Japan for 10 years for military and I have never left the country; I am intrigued with other cultures! GOOD LUCK TO YOU!

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Thanks for your lovely comment @chelseajo Your husband lived in Japan for 10years! fantastic place : ) Looking forward to sharing my stories with you!

yes in Okinawa! I cant wait to read! look forward to it!

Welcome to Steemit. Lovely photos. Followed. Look forward to seeing your beautiful photos and hearing about your travels. :)

Thanks @sunsquall! Can't wait to share beautiful photos and travel stories with you!

hey hey hey how you doing?

tell me how do you deal with the culture shock, or even the reverse culture shock specially after living and working in many countries..

for me after traveling around 35 countries and living in 8 of them... REVERSE culture shock always hit me..

anywho welcome to steemit.. i am going to follow you .. looking forward to hear from you ..

Hello there @jordanx2, how's it going? Thanks for your comment and for following me! I have to say I enjoy experiencing 'culture shock' both positive and negative. I guess I'll be posting a lot about it too. So nice to have joined steemit!

for me I live for the culture shock, but the reverse culture shock makes me sick..

Welcome to steem.

Thanks!

The world needs more beauty. Please bring it. Welcome to steemit. :)

Hello @rmorel , thanks for your envcouragement : ) Have you also joined recently? Good luck to us!

Hi @anna-bella welcome to steemit,
social media that is extraordinary,greetings from me....

Hello @syaisyah thanks for your warm welcome!

I love your taste! I'll definitely be following along :) Welcome!

Hello @jessmal, glad to hear you liked my style : ) thanks for following too! Looking forward to sharing my passion with you!

Awesome stop in when you can! Looking for talented people and also if you need help we can get you started!

Thanks for your kind comment @steemitqa! Appreciate your support!

Hi Anna
Welcome to Steemit and it's very nice to read your post and to know how you developed your interests and likings. As we grow up from early age we discover things around us and develop our own unique interests which we try to pursue in later in life. As our physical body grows, inner self also develops and take a shape like physical body. If physical body is hardware inner-self is software. So we have to use our soft ware well and steer through life. We await your wonderful and beautiful experiences to unfold for Steemians. Cheers.

Hello @kamireddy , thanks a lot for your lovely comment. What a warm welcome, I appreciate it!

Hey anna-bella. Thanks for sharing a bit of your background. Steemit can definitely be an amazing platform that can benefit many people. Hope you have a great time blogging and sharing. Will look out for future post.

That's a very kind comment, thank you @feedmylife ! Very happy to have finally found this fantastic platform!

Herzlich Willkommen!

Danke schön!!

Hi... Welcome in steemit, i hope you are best friends....

Thanks for your comment!

Doing well for your first vote..

Cheers for your comment : )

You Can Also Use @resteemable For Free Resteem Service ! They Are Working Hard To Help The Community Work Better 🌫😊

Thanks for your comment, still a lot to learn!

Welcome om Steemit anna-bella! I'm curious to see your posts as I share really similar interests. You mentioned your profession above, in what field or what position are you working? Have a good start on steemit, I will definitely follow your journey!

Thanks for your lovely comment bejaunt! Everyone is so welcoming... wow what a community. Looking forward to sharing my stories with you!

Welcome to Steemit !

I hope you enjoy as you invest your time, effort and ideas here in the platform. It may take patience to build upvote from Steemians just don't expect too much because at the end all your post will be worth it. I tell you this for I have been here for a while since then it made some adjustments in my life. I love it here and may likewise with you.

Love,
@carpieeew

What a kind message, thanks @carpieeew! Still lots to learn and get used to .. as I'm totally new to this crypto world. Thanks for your support!

Hello& welcome to steemit @anna-villa .I like your post and your life .Followed; Look forward to seeing your beautiful photos and hearing about your travels. :)Please; back follow to me.

Hello and thanks for following . Very excited to share my stories and photos with you!

Aregato Anna, Welcome to Steemit

Thanks rabilsmith! Arigato!

Hallo @anna-bella . Willkommen hier auf Steemit. Bin selbst neu hier und schon sehr gespannt, wie sich das ganze entwickeln wird. Grüße aus Berlin!!!

Hallo @screenit! I'm also completely new here. So much to learn.. Good luck to us!

Welcome to Steemit Anna :) I am glad to be welcoming you onboard, I am pretty sure steemit is the platform that you are able to express and channel your thoughts to more audiences and readers here. I've been living in Europe too but now I am settling down in Asia country and I miss how lovely the landscape and the food over there. Chats aside, I will definitely keep an eye on you :) Keep it up!

Thanks a lot for your warm welcome @explorenations! Where about Europe were you based before? Look forward to sharing my stories with you!

I was based in Munich, Germany :)

wow! you've worked in many countries!!! it looks like a great experience!!! I'm also a food lover so I'll wait for your next post!!:)

Thanks for your comment @cjswokuku. You're a financial advisor in South Korea? I followed you! Looking forward to sharing my stories with you : )

Hi anna-bella! Welcome to steemit! I am only a week old on steemit as well and have given myself the mission to welcome more new users like you. It is not that easy to get upvotes (that are not paid), comments and followers, or even people that actually read your quality posts. So I would like to contribute by doing this action daily, maybe it could make a little difference! Looking forward to learn more about you :)

Hi jessicapixie, that's very kind of you. I've only just started, but I wonder how my posts can be seen by many people..... is there any tactics!? Seen only by for example 5 people... is a bit sad! Anyway good luck to you too!

I am still learning about the tactics myself. Some steemians use voting bots, I haven't yet, we shall see. But yesterday I joined the Discord channel of the #minnowsupportproject, I totally recommend it! You can meet people in the chat room and maybe get more visibility of your posts. I also joined https://steemfollower.com/ today. In this case you don't buy votes, but rather exchange them with other steemians. I believe it really helps getting visibility. Good luck!

Thanks for your tips jessicapixie! I still don't understand all the technical terms.... but I'll be learning as well. Will share if I find any useful stuff for people like us ; ) have a lovely day!

Congratulations @anna-bella!
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Wow thanks so much for telling me such an encouraging news @arcange!! Thankful for all the kind people who gave me these comments on my very first post!

Welcome @anna-bella to Steemit! Great introduction and thanks for sharing. Seems like you are a foodie here...I love food too. I added and followed you on Steemit, will be awesome if you check out my contents and follow me as well, and hope we can stay connected and support each other~ :)!

Thanks for your comment and for following me @miss.kat! Look forward to exchanging lots of foodie stories here : )

@anna-bella sounds good to me haha....gotta love those food. Looking forward to your upcoming posts~

Hi, I welcome you to this group that I am sure will bring you many joys. ... a great greeting.

I invite you to see my post

Hello yaiven, thanks for your comment. Good luck to us!

Welcome to Steemit. Have fun and will look forward on you post. Been to europe couple of times. 😊 it will be great to see your experience too 😊

Thanks for your comment @jamicehung. Where in the world are you based currently? Look forward to sharing lots of stories with you! I'll follow you!

Hi I’m based in the Philippines but been Germany couple of times. Though I haven’t been to Berlin maybe on my next visit 😊

I had a friend who was from Philippines when I was at my uni in the UK, heard she returned and became famous there : )

Hello! Welcome! Indeed..the antique and sophisticated look really attracts my eyes too...they look different than the rest. Good luck, steemian!

Hello laviniatherapist, thanks for your comment! I'm looking forward to sharing my stories with lots of beautiful photos with you!