Baking, cooking, music, books, movies/ TV series and
... my dogs. They make me laugh a lot and are a bit of the feeling of "being home" I'm carrying with me whenever and wherever they accompany me.
Asparagus. Completely overrated.
Writing letters (like real ones on paper) however is completely underrated.
I'm excited about nature. Its coulours, scents, sounds... A blue sky lifts my mood, walking through a forest bathed in sunlight, sunsets, standing on a mountain top looking down on a foggy valley... it brings so much peace and calms me down. I especially love being close to water (e.g. choosing the small café next to the river in the city whenever I go sightseeing).
When I was a child, we used to go to France on vacation (mostly travelling along the Mediterrean coast). Therefore I have a lot of lovely memories connected to France and I recently started trying to learn the French language again.
I've been to England, where I fell in love with Yorks little streets and alleys and to Scotland with friends, where I fell even harder for the beauty of Edinburgh.
I love some of the good old classics, like David Copperfield, Pride and Prejudice, the picture of Dorian Grey, Anna Karenina, the stories of Sherlock Holmes (♡), the more adventurous stories of Jules Verne and even Dracula. There really is something fascinating about those kind of books.
Thanks to Madeline Miller I recently started redescovering books about greek mythology (although I have to google most of the names every few seconds). But I also enjoy reading historical novels or books, that are more scientifical (e.g. other minds by Peter Godfrey-Smith).