Regrets…

 The topic of regrets comes up every now and then in conversations. And so far, there is not much in my life that I regret. Having had to leave my daughter and son in Austria when I migrated to the US after the divorce was the only thing that would come to mind…

Today, I realized another thing that I regret…

When we came home to the hostal this evening after closing the restaurant we found all the guests gathered around the kitchen table chatting, having fun, planning the evening together. They decided to go to the beach together to see if they might encounter luminescent plankton… What a great experience for them! Different nations, different walks of life, joining on an adventure together!

On another day, guests, volunteers, worker, and us - all sharing a meal

This makes me so happy! As this was the big goal behind the effort of building this hostal! All the hard work over the last three years, the stresses and challenges, it all paid off! The experiment succeeded! Yeay!

So what’s the regret, you might ask. Well, most of my career I was a consultant/contractor. I was always travelling. And almost always solo. I used to say, the only bad thing about this type of work is, that I have to eat alone every night…

Today I realized, I should have looked for hostals, instead of hotels!!! Then I would always have come home to a bunch of interesting and interested people, instead of an empty hotel room. I could have shared the meal time with other travellers, exchanged stories and ideas, built friendships with people from all over the planet! Not having thought of this earlier, that is my other regret!