A Week Exploring Picos de Europa
For most people, the will to be in contact with Nature borns from having an inner space within ourselves that modern society simply cannot fulfill. There’s often a need of escape to something that can give us such strong yet pure emotions — whether it is peace, freedom or adventure — which I find Nature can do effortless.
I feel that the most rewarding and fulfilling trips are often the ones where you decide to discover a certain location motivated by its natural beauty. They allow us to stop and reset, taking a look outside the spectrum of our daily routines; to see that we live in a planet that has the ability to carry around without us.
By allowing us to absorb natural landscapes through a peaceful and open spirit, it ends up being a great way to be in contact with ourselves and the intentions we want to put in our life. It’s the simplicity of things that we are exposed to, as José Saramago better once put it (Baltazar and Blimunda):
So perhaps life was simply to sit on the grass, holding a calendula without stripping off the petals, either because one already knew the answers or because they were so unimportant that to discover them would not be worth a flower’s life.
As for me, the trips where I am nearest to nature are also usually the ones that offer me the most pleasant and frequent memories since, ultimately, memories are made of reflections of what you saw but also feelings you felt when you experienced it.
