I’m going to tell you a short story that was, actually, one of the biggest life lessons I have received in my entire life. I fly to Singapore for my birthday. I love Singapore. It’s one of the best places in the world. I stay here just for a few days and I think to myself to do something special for my birthday. What can be better than booking a night at Marina Bay Sands Hotel and have acces to their infinity pool. So I’ve done that. Booked j ...
We are always in a rush. We’re always busy. We have to do something at any giving time of the day. We have to? Or we decide to? I’ve just started an experiment: I spend one to two hours per day in the middle of nature, without doing anything, in particular. I just sit there and enjoy the silence. No rush, no worries. It’s been a week and I already feel great. I hope this will last forever.
I like flying. I like flying so much that I felt stuck in time, during this pandemic. I couldn’t fly for more than one year and things got a bit weird in my head. Maybe because I’ve been used to flying almost monthly. I had even more than 15 flight segments in one month. It’s like an addiction. I needed a Pandemic to realise that I’m addicted to fly, to move countries, to travel. Anywhere. Now, after more than a year o ...
When I was a kid, I always tried to postpone, skip or finish school as fast as I could. I had more important things to do. At least, this is what I thought so at that age. Now, many years later, I realise how fool I was. Why? Because now I don’t have so much time to do that, the learning process is different, it takes more time and energy to pick up stuff. And guess what. The eager to learn is higher now. I’m 36 years old and I got b ...
We all thinking at the past. We all try to plan the future. But what we actually need to do is to live in the present. It’s hard. It’s maybe the hardest thing a human being can do. There is a study where people were given the option of either sitting in a room with their own thoughts for 15 minutes, or giving themselves an electric shock. 60% of men and 30% of women gave themselves a shock, ra ...
I had this wallpaper on my laptop for years. This is the amount of time I also had to wait for this dream to become true. 3.5 years from the moment I put the order and 7 years since I’ve started to dream, to be more specific. I’ve started following Tesla in 2012, when the Model S was launched. Doing my research about Tesla, I thought the car is too good to be true, too advanced to get into the mark ...
I think the best way to start a new trip is by lowering down your expectations. This is how I did before flying to Morocco. It’s good, healthy. The post title is Morocco, but I actually had the chance to visit Marrakech only, so I don’t know how accurate this content will be. It’s 20th of January. My first day in Marrakech. I sit down by the pool. The sun is rising towards the middle of the sky. There’s around ...
The picture on the top is not just a picture of the sky. It’s a picture of the sky I was staring for hours after I got out from a Vipassana retreat. OK, what is Vipassana, you may ask. It’s a retreat than can last from days to months, where you are totally disconnected from the world: you don’t have access to internet, books, radio, tv, you are not allowed to speak to each other and you meditate about 12 hours/day. It’s ...
Too far from what? Too close to what? When I moved out of London, I got this question so often, that I had to memorize the answer and say it over and over again: You moved to The Cotswolds? Isn’t it too far away? Too far away? I ask back. What do you mean by too far away? It could be too far from your world, your own bubble, but maybe it’s closer to mine. We tend to create our own bubbles and everything that is differen ...
My first cruise ship experience was as a photographer on Costa Magica. It wasn’t easy. A lot of work, not much to learn and selling the photos was a huge pain in the ass. I got out quickly and I said to myself that, at some point, I’ll get back on cruise ship as a passenger. That’s what happened this time. I embarked on Royal Caribbean‘s Jewel of the Seas. The itinerary was perfect: Puerto Rico, St. Croix, St. Maarten, Mar ...
