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How to enrich your lockdown time with a life changing reading experience
This lockdown time may be the best thing to help you grow and improve your wellbeing. You may ask, what can improve my wellbeing? It’s reading and reading lots of books. In an article, Neil Gaiman – Why our future depends on libraries, reading, and daydreaming – he suggests that reading fiction for pleasure is…
Read MoreYou’ll fall in love with the great steam railway trip to Bronte country’s literary adventure
Like great creative people such as Leonardo da Vinci and Frank Lloyd Wright whose nature studies inspired their works of art, Charlotte Bronte too used nature to enrich her writings. Charlotte Bronte makes use of nature’s imagery throughout “Jane Eyre,” and comments on both the human relationship with the outdoors and human nature. The Oxford…
Read MoreWhy nature adventurers should add a trip from Paris to Jules Verne’s home to their bucket list.
“The sea is everything. It covers seven-tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert; where a man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.” Jules Verne Jules Verne enjoyed living in Amiens. He called it a “levelheaded, polite, even-tempered town” with a “cordial…
Read MoreAre your looking for an ultimate family nature friendly trip?
Green Travel Benefits Finding enjoyment with a vacation that offers extra benefits is the best part of nature-friendly travel. You’re probably a green traveler if you want more meaningful, challenging, and adventurous experiences in your travels with sensitivity and responsibility for the environment and the local cultures. I consider myself nature-friendly since I like to…
Read MoreWhy self-discovery saves your life.
Wise men knew that the first thing we need to do to live a good and happy life is to find ourselves. Mastering others is a strength; Mastering yourself is true power.” -Lao Tzu, Chinese Taoist Philosopher. “Know thyself.” The meaning of these two words is attributed to the Greek philosopher Socrates and inscribed in…
Read MoreWHY YOU NEED AN ADVENTURE VACATION
How often have you come back from your vacation exhausted, only to be waking up early the next morning to go back to work? Do you ever feel like it would be great to have a few days to relax and unpack before getting back to the grind? Or better yet, would you like to…
Read MoreFive Reasons to Visit the Land of Shangri La
Find out if there was a reason that James Hilton, the British author of 1933 novel Lost Horizon chose the Himalayas as the location for the place called Shangri-La as the mythical utopia. In his novel, Shangri-La was an earthly paradise, a permanently happy land where people stayed young for a hundred years. Do you…
Read MoreHow to awaken your mind, inspire your spirit, and refresh your body.
Does the image of sandy white beaches, leaning palm trees, lush undergrowth, water in varying shades of blue and green, footprints in the wet sand, seashells, and seaweed strewn along the beach, and driftwood washed up on the shore beckon you? Do you hear the soothing swish of the surf, waves crashing into rocks, the…
Read MoreWhy do writers love cats?
Do you want to concentrate intensely on some problem and settle in to write your masterpiece? Like these writers? Step 1 you should acquire a cat. Next, you’ll need to be alone with the cat in the room where you write. The magical cat will invariably get up on your desk…
Read More3 magic Mediterranean islands to open a sense of wonder
Do you ever dream of owning your own island? You can get that experience without the hassles that come with actual ownership when you visit one of these small Mediterranean islands. Besides, the feeling of island ownership, Wise and Well explains something that helps creates wonder. It’s the discovery that the ocean increases…
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