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Conscious travel routines

September 4, 2019September 4, 2019 My Travel Atelier

Practical tips for a conscious travel routine

August 2, 2019August 2, 2019 My Travel Atelier

8 tips for travelling with a toddler

May 25, 2019May 24, 2019 My Travel Atelier

Favourite travel gear on our Latinamerican adventure

TRAVEL ADVICE

May 16, 2019May 16, 2019 My Travel Atelier

The importance of taking advice from the right people

April 16, 2018April 21, 2018 My Travel Atelier

Street photography course in Barcelona

November 4, 2017February 27, 2018 My Travel Atelier

How to find the right Airbnb when travelling with a baby

October 12, 2016 My Travel Atelier

Why you should always remember to sign up for loyalty programs

September 25, 2016 My Travel Atelier

My best tips for a successful road trip

September 18, 2016September 19, 2016 My Travel Atelier

Traveling light: The beauty essentials I bring when I travel with a carry-on

Welcome to My Travel Atelier

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.

Welcome!

christinarovira

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We have a couch 🙌 Finally, after living here f

We have a couch 🙌

Finally, after living here for more than six months we bought a couch! And if you wonder why we didn’t buy one earlier (because WHO will spend six months living without a couch?), then the answer is this:

In our previous lives with two good jobs and steady incomes, we would have bought one immediately after moving in. But after spending all our savings traveling in Latin America for 9 months, venturing into a freelance lifestyle within the travel and hospitality industry, just to see it all go down the drain due to Covid and start over again from zero, our perspective (and buying power) has changed from “let’s buy it” to “let’s buy what we need the most”.

Some days I’m just sick and tired of not having the same buying power as we had before, but then, when my husband asks if I’d rather go back in time to our good old lives in Copenhagen I think about it, and I won’t (even though it’s tempting sometimes!).
All the experiences, all the times looking at each other thinking “what have we done?”, all the laughter, the people we’ve meet... All the stories we’ll have to tell when we get old... wouldn’t have been without it (okay, maybe some of it!).

It’s been a fase (probably a healthy one) and it’s a fase that’s really going forward now 🙌 It has taken time to get here. And it’s just a reminder that everything comes at a price. Starting from zero isn’t the easiest but it’s worth it ✨

Interior details: For those who know me, you’ll know that this is waaaay too white for my liking. When we couldn’t afford the dream couch, I searched for “IKEA sofa hacks” and found this! We’ll customize it with new feet and another fabric (white sofas isn’t really my thing and it already has pumpkin soup on it thanks to our son 🎃🤦🏻‍♀️). We’ll also paint the walls etc. But it’s already better than it has been the last six months, right (swipe right)?

Three ladies and a dog in the beautiful home of @t

Three ladies and a dog in the beautiful home of @thetravellingapartment this Friday✨

@jul.malinowska and I are starting a new project together and @gemmaaskham was kind enough to let us shoot her amazing Mediterranean home for the purpose (+ interview her about the renovation process the house has been through). Fingers crossed that the people we’ll pitch to will find it as interesting as we do🤞 More about this in the future ...

My opportunities for testing new projects feel endless here in Barcelona and it all comes down to the people I have met while living here.

✨Connections and network is EVERYTHING ✨

I’ll share my tips and my experiences about finding likeminded people in my upcoming newsletter that will launch in about two weeks 🙌 Because you really need the right people around you if you wish to make a change in your life (no matter what that change is about)🌿

Wish you all a beautiful Sunday❤️

We have sunshine and 20 degrees in Barcelona today, so I’m going OUT to enjoy with my boy ☀️👋

The happy face of an entrepreneur who received SO

The happy face of an entrepreneur who received SO MANY responses on my survey about my upcoming newsletter last week (in stories) 🙌
Thank you to all who voted and commented. And it was only in Danish, which left many of you out (sorry about that - International version might come in the future 💫).

Thank you, thank you, thank you 😘

I’m currently making drafts, deciding the layout, planning the content and selecting photos for the newsletter 💌 It will be full of business tips, advice for freedom seeking souls and ALWAYS with a glimpse of the sweet Mediterranean life in Barcelona ☀️❤️🌿

Also sending warm thoughts to my business coach @pascalecote who has taught me the importance of market research. In my life pre-Pascale I would simply have drafted a newsletter without asking the recipient (aka YOU!) first.
Foolish, right? Because some of the responses really surprised me. For instance, a lot of you were interested in knowing more about how to make new friendships and connections when living abroad (or even when living home new connections can be necessary if you dream of a change in your life). A topic I love and can’t wait to share more about 😃

So here’s to market research and the excitement of new things happening in my biz 🙌

Wish you all a beautiful Wednesday 🌿

If you didn’t get to answer the survey, I’ve saved it in highlights. You can’t vote any longer, but if you’re curious to know the topics they’re there☝🏼

Pic by @jul.malinowska 💫

These weeks I’m looking into my business and fin

These weeks I’m looking into my business and finding new ways of working🌱 I work on streamlining work flows, creating new income streams and I am reviewing and taking note of all the projects I have done over summer to see what I enjoyed the most (I know that the projects I’ve enjoyed the most are also the ones I’m best at, so my focus should be there for the future) ✨⁠
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I’m digging into all of this to optimize my business. Both for my clients, for myself and for the future. I could continue like I have since May and It would be a solid business, but I want more structure and I want to involve people around me more. I want to inspire the ones who want to be inspired ( = a newsletter for creative and/or freedom seeking souls is under construction 🥰🙌💌). ⁠
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I’m working to build a business that’s solid enough so I can take the summer months off and enjoy the best time of the year with my family ☀️ Not take in any client projects from start July to mid September. To solely dedicate a few hours a week on ongoing projects and the creative development of my business during those months. Because as I’ve said before, then my creativity only flows when there’s mental space 💫⁠
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It might sound like wishful thinking, but this is what I’ll do. And I know it’s going to work, because I’ve decided it will🤝⁠
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(Just for info: We need my income. I can’t just take some months off and live of my husband’s income. To keep the wheels running I need a solid income, which is why I am planning ahead now.)⁠
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Building this business is teaching me so much, and most importantly, it is teaching me that I decide, and that when I trust the process it will be fine. My intuition tells me this is the right thing to do. And my intuition knows me quite well 🍀⁠
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Does it sound crazy to take 2,5 month almost off every summer? Would you dare to set the same goal? Would you believe it could be possible? 💫

Back in Barcelona 🙌 Now you might think: “Bu

Back in Barcelona 🙌

Now you might think: “But hasn’t she been back for a while now?”

Yesss, we’ve been here for more than a month, but gosh time has flown! And when time flies, so does my activity here on Instagram👋

In between wonderful client projects (which I’ll soon be sharing), Julian starting school (they begin school at the age of three here and it’s in Catalan …!) and lots of other things happening, this first month has been quite a whirlwind of events.

But now, I’m taking a few weeks “off” and not taking in any new projects for the next 3 weeks-ish.

Since I relaunched my business back in May, I’ve been so extremely busy with client projects (very thankful for that🙏), that I haven’t had the time to look into my own business. I haven’t had the time to share any projects, to update my portfolio, to start the design course I wanted to do, or the e-book I want to write and so on. Most are things that require my creative skills.

But for my creativity to flow I need to unwind. To go for strolls without an agenda. Bring my notebook and not my laptop. Look at people and take in the nature. And that’s exactly what I’m planning to do the upcoming weeks.

Those weeks with nothing on the agenda won’t bring instant cash flow for sure, but I know from experience, that those weeks with less activity and more mental space, will bring in double up on the economy afterwards. It’s taking a step back, to take two steps forward.

I feel like I’ve been running a marathon since Covid, with lots of hills, and now it’s the time to go for a quiet walk.

I wonder, if you’re self-employed, or even if you aren’t, are you good at stopping up, taking a step back and breathe?

Wish you all a wonderful Friday and weekend😘

Picture by my photo-partner in crime: @jul.malinowska ❤️
(And how beautiful is Barcelona? The architecture🙌)

✨20.09.20✨ Today marks 10 years since our fir

✨20.09.20✨

Today marks 10 years since our first kiss and 6 years since our wedding.

When we met, I didn’t want a serious relationship. I was only 23 and knew that this guy could be something. And I was scared. Not scared to commit, nor scared to open my heart. I was scared to loose my freedom. I was sure that committing to a serious relationshop would lead to buying an apartment, a shared mortgage, getting married, having one child, then one more, be so busy with daily life and practicalities that I would basically just see life pass by… What was pretty much anyone else’s dream scenario was my nightmare at the time: All I wanted to do was to travel and see the world.

Luckily, this handsome man who has become my rock when my mind floats in a million different directions, said very calmly “You know, we are the ones to decide what to do with our lives and I’m pretty sure that all the travels you want to do, will be even more fun if we do them together. Trust me, this will be good.”

And boy he was right💥 The past ten years have been fun, exciting, challenging and so much more (the past year has maybe been a liiiiittle bit too “exciting”, but we still toasted in cheap red wine every night and laughed in panic when everything went wrong during our first months in Barcelona. That’s love: laughing together when there is literally 0€ on the bank account, your rental is covered in mold, the job opportunity you thought you had is gone and the Spanish police is making it impossible to get your residency papers…).

If he back then had given me the list of things we would experience together, I would have screamed “YESSSSS let’s start a life together NOW! It sounds amazing!”.

Extra thankful today that he didn’t give up back then and thankful for the in-laws, nieces, nephews and friends that came along when saying yes to him❤️

To many more years and adventures🍾

And to a big 10 years wedding anniversary party in 4 years for everyone who were at the wedding + for all the amazing people we have met the past years!

The fields are harvested, the bright summer evenin

The fields are harvested, the bright summer evenings are over, temperatures are indicating that fall is just around the corner and I’ve had an umbrella as my companion the past week 🌨☔️Clear signs that it’s the perfect time to head back to Barcelona for another round of summer ☀️

I never thought I would appreciate a Danish summer so much, but these past 2,5 months have been absolutely wonderful 🌻 Now it’s time to go back, time for Julian to start school, time for me to give my business some love during daytime (it has been a little stressful to mostly work at night 🙈) and to get some routines again (hopefully🙌) after we lost them all 6 months ago.

Hasta luego friends & family here in Denmark 👋 It has been AMAZING! See you in 3,5 months for Christmas 🎄

🏖 Amigos in Barcelona: Can’t wait for beach time, tapas, vino and coffee in the sun all fall. Hasta pronto 😍💦☀️

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