ONE: Travel to wonderland. Just use the rabbit hole and go where the magic is: visit Disneyland or the Harry Potter Studios, fly a kite on the beach, spend a week in an old mill or farmhouse, camp in the desert and bathe in the Milky Way at night. Travel back to yourself, recapture the world as it was before you grew up.
TWO: Return to your happy place. You must have one. It’s either a cabin, or a lake, or a beach, or a city, a precise time of the year, a table with a view, or a person. Return as many times as you can, or move there.
THREE: Travel with your best friend. Friendship and discovery never grow old.
FOUR: Take your grandparents or your parents to a place they’ve never been and never hoped to see.
FIVE: Best gift ever: plane tickets
SIX: spend a morning picking oranges in an orange grove
SEVEN: French kiss and street-dance in Paris. I cant say it’s the most romantic city in the world, but it’s perfect for public display of romance
EIGHT: Have a beach all to yourself in Portugal: its a crash course training in true freedom
NINE: Sail along the coast of Sardegna, from La Maddalena to Tavolara
TEN. Dine al fresco on the rooftops of Florence
ELEVEN Lose yourself in a spontaneous detour. Drive through medieval countryside chasing castles, or through Sardinian coastline chasing beaches. The best stories are written off the map.
