Denia.

I watched 'Eat Pray Love' on my IPad on the flight from Mykonos yesterday. I had seen the movie before - again on a in-flight - and this time I managed to pay more attention to all the quotes on the movie. Tiring, yes, it can be a little bit though I confess I shed silent tears with Julia's caracter throughout the movie. Like her caracter in the movie - years ago - I also ran away from everyone and everything (today I know that in the end I was only running away from my own feelings). With a broken heart I ended up leaving my job, house, friends and left to Spain. Simply bought a Ryanair ticket and went to Reus (only thing I knew it was a city near Barcelona). From Reus I called a cousin of mine who was living in Denia, Spain and travelled miles away to her dcity. There, in Denia, I rented a place and stayed for three months. The most magical time of my life. I met so many great people and lived away from my broken heart giving myself the time and the space necessary to heal and open the space in my life for new things. Above everything that time in Spain helped me to teach me ( yes!myself teaching myself) that I could anything that I wanted to do on my own. I re-learnt to love myself so I could then Love life again. I learnt a simple lesson; we are all individuals in our journeys not needing anyone else to feel happiness. Today whenever some sort of weakness (try) knocks the door I recall those months in Spain and how happy I was instantly happiness comes back again. My advice to those with a broken heart is always the same; There's a whole life out there waiting for you to experience it. Just Go and experience it!


PS: the video bellow was filmed in 2006 whilst I was living in Denia, Spain. The lady in the video is Christina and one of the most beautiful people I met. On this video we were making a joke about the size of the city (which is very small).