329: 20 Life Lessons Learned on My Recent Trip to England

The Simple Sophisticate - Intelligent Living Paired with Signature Style

Shannon Ables

Education, Self-improvement, Britain, Contentment, Podcast, Society & Culture, Simplicity, France, Style, Lifestyle

4.7 • 915 Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2022

⏱️ 72 minutes

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To feel intrinsically connected with a culture other than the one you were raised involves the feeling of a coming home. A 'coming home' in a way that seems impossible until you feel it first-hand, deep in the marrow of your bones. As I share in detail in the introduction of the month of May in my new book The Road to Le Papillon: Daily Meditations on True Contentment, my first trip and time spent in the English countryside spoke to my inner most true self in a way I didn't expect, but completely understood.

Returning to England this past April was life lifting. Noting not having visited since 2017, which I didn't realize consciously is nearly 5 years, ended a drought of British culture seen with my own eyes that I needed more than I realized. It was a figurative deep breath of fresh air that upon taking in, immediately brought a smile to my face and a calm to my being. While I didn't spend my time as I most enjoy for most of my days when I am in England, which is to rent a vacation rental out in the countryside and go about many days just savoring the everyday routines and visiting an occasional destination of interest, I was in Britain, and that was all that mattered. I saw places and spent time partaking in activities that further introduced a culture to me I had not done before, and for that I am grateful.

In today's episode/post, I'd like to share with you 20 Life Lessons learned during these 3 1/2 days in Britain - both in London and in Kent as we took a train ride out to the southeast countryside of England and spent the night as we were intent to visit Sissinghurst Castle Garden, and oh what a treat that was.

Let's take a look at the list:

~Note, if you tune in to the audio version, I share much more detail about each item on the list. Be sure to check out the podcast wherever you enjoy your favorite shows.

~The Simple Sophisticate, episode #329

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0:00.0	Thank you for tuning in to the simple sophisticated podcast. The show that is part of the simply
0:10.0	luxurious life online destination, cultivating true contentment the art of living a life of
0:16.5	quality over quantity. Visit the blog, The Simply Luxurious life at our simplified u TSL.co or The Simply Luxurious Life.com to find the show notes for each podcast episode as well as much more weekly content to elevate your everyday and deepen
0:35.0	your contentment from a Monday motivational post, recipes, videos of the
0:39.7	cooking show series, style and the core inspiration inspiration French and British inspired content and
0:44.8	reader's favorite regular weekly post this and that which is posted each
0:49.2	Friday morning now to today's episode. Welcome to the Simple Sophisticate Podcast, where intelligent living is paired with signature
1:15.0	style. I'm your host Shannon Ables and whether you're listening on your commute, exercising,
1:21.1	working in the garden, or sitting down with a hot cup of tea or a
1:24.7	cafe ole. Thank you for tuning in. Let's get started. Welcome to the 329th episode of the simple sophisticated and welcome to the fourth annual British week. Yes, we are celebrating all things British this week on
1:56.7	the simply luxurious life blog and that includes two new episodes this week because it's British week and both episodes which
2:04.8	includes today's are all about Britain. If you haven't already stopped by the
2:09.4	blog the week kicked off yesterday with a brand new illustration by the illustrator who came up with a cover of my new book, the Road of the Pepion, and the other 13 illustrations within the book.
2:23.0	Sarah Locker did an amazing job and I am so excited to reveal it.
2:28.0	There's so many details and I share where each one was inspired and in fact because it was inspired from my trip to England
2:35.1	which is the source of inspiration for this episode if you too have a trip you've
2:40.0	taken or will be taking and of course you're probably going to capture a lot of
2:43.8	photos on this trip. Sarah does an amazing job of compiling a handful of
2:48.2	images. You can hand select them or you can let her pick them. She did both for
2:51.6	this particular illustration for me and she can
2:55.0	create a piece of art unique for you to hold those memories, to be hung on a wall, to be framed in place to wherever or however you want.
3:06.0	So keep that in mind, I provided the links in the welcome post that was posted on Sunday to her website.
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