Snow in the Ore Mountains and it turns out differently than planned

It's snowing!

It has sun and it is sooooo cozy and snuggly! I've been in the Erzgebirge since the beginning of February.
The hotel is on the edge of the forest and I love being here!

I came here for teaching, massage and for my women's retreat, which I wanted to give here.
But as is so often the case in life, it turns out differently than you think!

So I got Corona in February after all.
For three days I was extremely weak and my bones hurt and then it was almost over. Still, I had to stay in quarantine. my retreat to May (15th to 19th May 2022).

Life always gives you the right thing! 

The occasion and this obligation to do absolutely nothing made me practice feeling that everything is ok the way it is. And a really good idea occupies my head.

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Spontaneously to Madrid to the dance festival 

Since I started dancing salsa again at the beginning of 2020, after 16 years, everything that had to do with dancing, gymnastics and meeting people was closed from March due to the corona.
Since then, this desire to dance with a partner again has been so much in the field for me. I was constantly looking to see where I could get on again and, above all, where I could get on!

Because as a non-vaccinated (but now recovered!) You just no longer have access everywhere.
I accept that.
Without discussion. And I also don't allow anyone to discuss my attitude towards it with me! So I had a lot of time to see where I could get my dance needs met.

MADRID! 

Yes, it will be Madrid!
I'm really looking forward to it, especially since my two nephews, Aaron and Noah, live in Madrid as students. And I've never been there! So I book my ticket, my course, my two different hotels (one at the festival site and one downtown, 7 min. walk from my nephews).

It always sounds so great when you write, you're here and there and everyone thinks: great!
May I tell you a secret?
I have concerns and fears almost every time before I go on a trip!

This manifests itself in the fact that I get nervous, constantly have the feeling that I have lost or forgotten something.
And my heart is constantly palpitating because an anxious thought is racing through my head.

Has it always been like this?

Yes.
It has always been like this. Traveling (I mean traveling ALONE has been a challenge for me for over 30 years that I have faced over and over again).

Thank God! 

What else would I not have missed, in terms of personality development, courage, knowledge, wisdom, people, friends and joyful experiences! Yes, of course there are those lonely and dark moments along the way, and the dangerous moments in some corners, and the inner abysses you look into.

But that's exactly what we're always talking about: leaving the comfort zone!

This makes me a passionate conqueror of my life.
I didn't know anyone and only got to know everyone while dancing.
Unfortunately we all had to wear masks. So for three days I could dance from morning to night and was able to learn so many new things.
I had to pass the first evening with the party, because you could only take part in it dressed in white.
And the contents of my suitcase were full of black things.
I really want to change that from now on!

After 3 days of dancing I drove downtown Madrid to the second hotel, such a cool and amazing hostel!!!
I was so excited that I even sat in the lounge for a whole evening and spent my time writing.
What strikes me is that there is such great music playing in restaurants, in bars and everywhere else!

It rained almost exclusively that week, but I used my route planner to go wherever
I was given a tip to go.
I also took part in a free tour and learned a bit about the city of Madrid, which I drove to so spontaneously
that I hadn't even prepared myself for sightseeing.

I met my nephews three times. The first night I was with Aaron at a football bar (everything becomes a football bar in Spain when Madrid plays Barcelona) and I was so thrilled to feel that life again. Crowded bars with no social distancing rules, the loud conversations all around us, the chaos... I love it!

I love the silence and I love the shrill.

Back home for a short time

Coming back home is just as nice as driving off.
When I say home, people ask me if I mean Germany or Sicily.
Both now!
But here in Neckartailfingen I live in the same house where my theatre, the theater gallery, once made up my everyday life for 25 years.

Now I unlock the front door and I can still smell the theater air, the stories of the people who came and went here, the fading applause of the audience, the laughing faces, the sweat from the many rehearsals, and what can I say? I love the smell of creativity!

My creativity has been on the laptop for a while though.
With blogging, with learning and with creating new retreats and courses.

It's April now and I'll be on the road again in May.

But until then, I'm enjoying my stay in my southern German homeland.