Eat Play Love

So a while ago, when I was travelling, I read a book called Eat Pray Love



Essentially, it is about a woman who is recovering from a messy divorce and is not in a good state emotionally. It is a true story about the author, Liz, who decides that she is going to spend a year looking after herself and discovering different facets of her personality.

So she goes to Italy for 4 months, to learn Italian, and devote herself to culinary pleasures in the form of delicious Italian food. She then travels to India to spend 4 months in an ashram learning the art of meditation, and finally spends 4 months in Bali, one of the supposed happiest places in the world and finds a balance between the two.

It is a pretty good read, and I definitely could relate to several aspects in the book (maybe not so much the praying part). I think her journey is pretty great and I'm sure she has inspired many people to do the same kind of spiritual journey to find out aspects of their personality.

So it got me thinking, where would I go? What would I do if I have to choose three places around the globe that are well known for different things. What would you choose?

Well to start, I would love to spend 4 months in Jamaica to immerse myself into a culture where music is so highly revered and such a part of the people. Although many nations have contributed a lot to music, Jamaica seems to me (and I've never been), to be a place where it is a major part of every day life. I found this same thing when I was a child and lived in Fiji; they were all so blessed with amazing voices and a natural sense of rhythm, and I expect it would be the same in Jamaica. For really, any country that can produce Bob Marley has got to be a place to stay for a while.

Actually this is really hard? I want to go to so many places, but trying to fit it into one reason that sums up that country is difficult. I guess I could take Andrew Gottlieb's advice, and just do the opposite of what Elizabeth Gordon did. He is a comedian, whose book Drink, Play, F**k tries to do the opposite of the original.

He goes to Ireland to drink as much as possible, Las Vegas to gamble, and to Thailand for the women.