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    • Decorating with interior design from my travels
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November 28, 2019November 28, 2019 My Travel Atelier

Guide to Bacalar, Mexico

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I have been interviewed for my favourite podcast (in Danish)

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Our favourite coffee shops in Antigua, Guatemala

Conscious travel routines
September 4, 2019September 4, 2019 My Travel Atelier

Practical tips for a conscious travel routine

Guide to Lake Atitlan Guatemala
August 14, 2019August 15, 2019 My Travel Atelier

Complete guide to Lake Atitlan, Guatemala

August 2, 2019August 2, 2019 My Travel Atelier

8 tips for travelling with a toddler

15 photos of Antigua Guatemala
July 29, 2019July 29, 2019 My Travel Atelier

15 photos from our love-affair with Antigua, Guatemala

Coffee shops in Playa del Carmen
July 16, 2019July 24, 2019 My Travel Atelier

5 great coffee shops to work from in Playa del Carmen

Playa del Carmen
June 14, 2019June 14, 2019 My Travel Atelier

Taking a travel break and staying put in Playa del Carmen for some months

Guide to Isla Holbox
June 4, 2019June 4, 2019 My Travel Atelier

Guide to extraordinary Isla Holbox

May 25, 2019May 24, 2019 My Travel Atelier

Favourite travel gear on our Latinamerican adventure

May 22, 2019May 22, 2019 My Travel Atelier

Our 10 days in Mérida (hint: It was not as expected)

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Christina Rovira

Hi, I am Christina. A 32-year old Spanish- Danish travel writer, mother and wife. I have written here on My Travel Atelier since 2015 alongside my “real” job in the hotel industry. By the end of 2018 my husband & I jumped right into an uncertain future when we quit our 9-5 jobs to travel in Latin America and work online. Since then, my posts are mostly evolving around travelling with a toddler, working online and all the fabulous and not so fabulous things we experience along the way.

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Evening light 🍀 Our local paint shop opened th Evening light 🍀 Our local paint shop opened this week after two months of closure, so we'll finally finish the clay-look in the office this weekend. Only half of the walls are painted by now (but you don't see that on my pictures 😂). Can't wait to move on with our projects and make this place feel like a real home 🌿 Hope you'll all have a wonderful weekend wherever you are and whatever your plans are 🌼
Still very low on furniture and colors, but very h Still very low on furniture and colors, but very high on sunshine and the many nice commets I received on my last post + in my DM 🙌 Thank you 😘 This new little biz of mine will be amazing ⚡ I'm already working on some fun things with brilliant ladies💃 Can't wait to share some of the projects here🍀 Wish you a wonderful evening ⭐
What doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger … 👊 Covid-19 nearly killed an entire industry (travel-& hotels), including my little biz that I had worked most of 2019 to get up and running… 8 weeks ago I received call after call saying “sorry, we have to stop everything asap” and I could clearly see that targeting hotels would not be the smartest for a looong period. So I reinvented myself. I started decorating my office space (you all know that😂) and doing some small design projects online too. And now, 8 weeks later, my new business model is ready, my website is live and I am already working on some fun projects as a ᴄʀᴇᴀᴛɪᴠᴇ ᴠɪʀᴛᴜᴀʟ ᴀꜱꜱɪꜱᴛᴀɴᴛ 🌿 Not far from what I did before, but more creative and personal. And the best? I enjoy this more than what I did before (although I still love hotels and always will ✨). But working with small businesses & entrepreneurs and having a more personal relationship to the customers is SO MUCH MORE fun and rewarding ❤️ If you wonder what a ᴄʀᴇᴀᴛɪᴠᴇ ᴠᴀ does, then check my website, which is among one of the things I do: Build WordPress sites. The site is in Danish now but will follow in English very soon. Virtual hugs and don’t let Covid-19 kill your dreams 💫
Weather says summer, so you'll find me here every Weather says summer, so you'll find me here every evening around 7pm🍷🙌 Oh, and besides of summer, I'm also celebrating that my new website is almost ready to see the world 👊 And that @nicolerigas succeeded in getting appointments for us at Barcelona's best hair salon on Saturday (absolutely worth celebrating after a crazy Mexican hairdresser ruined my hair 7 months ago💇) 👏 Salud and happy pre-summer 🌞
This picture has nothing to with neither Barcelona This picture has nothing to with neither Barcelona nor Covid-19 (except the fact that we all look at old travel pics these days, right?). The picture is from a Lebanese guest house we stayed at back in 2018. Beit Douma. Located in the mountains a couple of hours from Beirut. There were always sweets, fruit, cakes, coffee & tea ready in the hall 💫 Those sweet memories... Appreciating them more than ever now. . I love how they have framed textile art for the walls. An idea I’ll copy for our home here in Barcelona ✨
Weekend😍 Sunshine 🌞 22 degrees today🌡 We Weekend😍 Sunshine 🌞 22 degrees today🌡 We can go out 🙌 A week ago I was starting to feel a little hopeless. It had been raining for 3 days straight. All grey 🌧 We couldn't leave the home. 6 weeks indoors with a toddler. It just felt a little blah... My positive self was being challenged... Weather in Denmark was fabulous and they were allowed to be outside 🌞🏡. We were just counting the days to escape Barcelona and head up north. But now... Just one week later everything is so different. Now that we can leave our homes, even just for an hour a day, the sun is out and we're finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel for the reopening of small shops and parks (= life💃), there is no place I'd rather be than right here in Barcelona 🌿 Oh man, how we needed to get out! Sunshine, socializing and fresh air has turned out to be the fundamentals for a good life (to us!). . Sorry Denmark, we won't see each other before summer (10 degrees in Copenhagen today, WTF?? 🌧). Can't wait to enjoy a Danish summer with friends and fam though. When we go, it will be 6 months since last time we hugged our families 🌼💓 . Hope you'll all have an amazing weekend 🍀
My little corner ✨ The only part of the apartme My little corner ✨ The only part of the apartment that’s furnished (because we moved in and then Barcelona locked down 🙄). The rest of our 100 sqm rental is only furnished with our beds, a dining table and chairs. And plants of course (never forget the plants!!) 🌱 🌿 . On a positive note, then it has been very easy to clean these months and there have been lots of room for our little boy to play, run and bike (indoors, yes!)⚽️🚴🏿 . As for this office space, it has been so, so, so nice to sit here and work in a nice environment. I simply decorated it with spare paint, old vases, DIY posters and a second hand shelf. So simple, but yet so nice. How about you, are you also more motivated when working surrounded by beautiful things?⭐🌼🌿
Those were the days ☕ Worry-free Saturday stroll Those were the days ☕ Worry-free Saturday strolls and coffee in the sun☀ Picture from one week before Barcelona shut down and real hugs turned into a virtual affair... Can't wait to get my Barcelona (and friends 💓) back 🌿
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