Turtles-Paradise

Over the past week, I’ve been lucky enough to have been staying in the rather luxurious holiday apartment you see in the picture. Full of light and fresh air, with lots of empty space and fairly limited elegant furniture, the apartment was beautiful and lifted your spirits the moment you walked inside.

It was the kind of place that makes you want to wake up early, eat a fruit salad and drink some real coffee whilst sitting on the balcony and watching the canal boats pass by below.

Of course, holiday apartments have a head-start on most houses. Because people don’t live there, they don’t accumulate that layer of clutter, kick-knacks, loose paperwork and unopened post. Because it gets thoroughly cleaned between each stay, it never develops those dustballs beneath the furniture, or cobwebs in hard-to-reach corners.

It’s a great way to see how good life can be without clutter though. With no distractions or habitual behaviour to fall into – who watches TV when they are on holiday? – you are free to really focus on each experience, whether it’s drinking a cup of coffee on the balcony, or strolling the streets, or simply sitting and watching the world.