Nature's our nature

I love my life, this blog, my job in digital, the music I listen to through my earplugs, all the movies I get to watch, the fashion shows that Wow me from the runway, the magazines I adore flipping through, the fast connection we have with everything and everyone thanks to technology, and damn, I love cosmetics. :D turns out we have grown fond of many things in our “modern” lifestyle. And I really really appreciate the fact that there are so many nice things in my life that I can name here.

But there’s one other thing I love that’s sometimes not so often in our daily lives and we sometimes forget to appreciate it and take care of it. And it’s nature. Nature is us, we are nature, we need it, it needs us - and it needs us to be gentle and appreciateful and to not ruit as we constantly do, unfortunatelly. Nature is natural. And we naturally need it. But somehow it has become more the other things that preveil in our lives but nature. And it’s sad. And I think we should rethink our priorities and go back to the natural state of being again. :)

With quarantine and home office working, with being busy and running demands but being unable to travel aorund for a long time…I think, hope and believe that we’ve realized how much we can miss nature. And it’s no surprise during the quarantine this time we all started looking through old photos from previous trips and felt like missing traveling a lot. Because nature is amazing and we really need it.

So to celebrate nature I decided to share some of my favorite nature photos in this post. I am already planning mroe trips and want to devote more time to nature now more than ever. Hopefully, there will be a lot more to see and share very soon.

First is my favorite seaside where skies meet waves and the summer is in full force.

Now come the time for flowers and blossoming plants.

Then comes the beauty of fall with the colorful leaves and last warm rays of sunny weather.

Now here’s to more sunny summer days of travelling around.

Hope you enjoyed this little tribute to nature and I’d love to hear more about your travel adventures and favorire things about vacation trips.

- Nicole

5 reasons why we all need to travel more

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5 reasons to travel more

We often look at travelling and vacations only as a fun time we have once or twice or if we’re lucky - a couple of times a year. But it is actually a lot more than just some time off that you spend doing basically nothing but having fun.

Here are some photos from a vacation in Greece that took me to amazingly beautiful places and made me become more aware, appreciating and open to new experiences. I knew it’s always so with travels but yet I was very surprised to find out how much a trip can really change me and so I realized that many of us often underestimate the power of traveling. So let me take you through my 5 reasons why we all need to travel more and what I think makes travelling so important in our lifes.

1. The more the better & little by little

   First of all, I think the “once or twice a year is okay” approach to travelling is most of the time wrong. A vacation should not be a one off event you are impatiantly waiting for. It should rather be a small reoccuring event that takes place each time you have a weekend to spare or even a day. This way traveling will give you the chance to more often get this nice feeling of being refreshed and clear minded as well as to develop the view that fun can happen anytime and so we should always be open to new adventures.

2. Clearer view on life

   Traveling is an opportunity to get a more distant and better view on your lfe and priorities. Having moe spare time, enjoying the sunsets etc. is a good chance for you to forget for a while about all the stress and pressure and finally think as clearly as you are actually able to when no circumstances are troubling you. So that’s the best time for big decisions and developing new ideas since you’re at a 100% capacity you now.

3. Productivity and ideas

   The freedom that being away from home and most of the people you know gives you is also important. You get a feeling of being a lot more capable and stronger. You’re a lot more likely to believe in your plans and big dreams if you distance yourself from daily duties and habits - not for any other reason but because you have 24 hours to do what you want and you actually realize how much you manage to accomplish within a day.

4. Happy times

   Travelling is great for bonding and rebonding with your closest people. Being too busy and having too many thing to do often stops us from spending enough quality time with the most important people in our lifes. When travelling you can talk, walk and discover new places together, try some new weird sport or dish and you will surely laugh together and discuss random fun things that probably never even occur to you in daily life. And that’s a really nice experience!

5. Broaden your horizons

   And last but not least, travelling is a way to broaden your horizons and get to know other cultures and lifestyles. This will enrich you and show you how different other people’s habits and traditions are, how many of these new things you are curious about and how much you can learn through travelling. And this will make you want even more and more trips, more new stories and more new places!

Thanks for reading, I hope I managed to inspire you to travel and enjoy little adventures more. :) I’d expect to hear in the comments about how much fun you had.

- Nicole