I took a short break.
A circuit breaker trip.
A quick flight to Geneva, a bus to Chamonix, France & an intention to ride the Aiguille Du Midi cable car 🚠 up to Mont Blanc.

Different language.
Different money.
Different food.

A desire to marvel at something in nature. To be in awe, experience wonder and to embrace the experience. A positive psychological experience tapping into personal physiology. I was waiting for the joy.
Alas strong winds closed the mountain access and my window of opportunity gone!

Yet one of the greatest gifts our travel experiences give us whether a short break, sabbatical or complete lifestyle and location change, is the ability to learn from each experience.

I wrote this to myself as the disappointment rose when the cable car was closed and I realised this was not the trip I would stand atop a mountain and marvel over the Alps.

‘If today has taught you anything on seeing Mont Blanc appear from the candy floss clouds, is the learning that conditions have to be right for what you want to come true and sometimes life works with you and other times against you but it’s nothing personal.
That’s just life.
It is out of your control-you are within yours so feel your disappointment. Acknowledge the loss. Then practice radical acceptance of the situation. Life moves on.’

One of the reasons I love travel so much, is that it connects me with an innate part of myself which can learn explore, grow and develop. It allows me to view life in a more rounded way, with a perspective which is helpful and growth promoting and all done outside a therapy room, many times within nature and as a human being, it enables me to connect inner space with outer place as a whole person and not just a part of the whole. Its is experiential learning. Travel is a wonderful gift to ourselves and to our loved ones.

Can you share a travel experience where it didn’t turn out as expected but you still learnt from it?