A couple months ago, as I noted in a previous post, I hopped across the pond for a little adventure with my bezzie mate. During our time, we visited Liverpool, Dublin, and drove along the north coast of Wales. It was a wonderful trip, and I can’t wait to return.
While we were in Dublin (which occurred mid-trip), we noticed that every shop had these postcards of Dublin’s doors – these really cute doors, at that. After a bit, we started to notice the doors themselves on some of our wanderings. It’s interesting – how you can exist alongside something without noticing. Then someone (or something) points it out to you. And you see it everywhere. It’s like when you get a new-to-you car, and suddenly you see that make/model everywhere. Or you learn a new word, and it pops up three more times that day – and you swear you’ve never heard it before.
And here’s the thing – the doors really are cute.
So cute, in fact, that we started noticing them elsewhere – like in Liverpool, where we had already spent a few days wandering around.
Then cut to the incredibly idyllic town of Llandudno in North Wales. (Seriously – I could live in this town…)
“They do doors better than we do” is not a phrase I ever thought I would utter. It was such a fun detail to have brought to our attention, and it changed the way we moved through some of the neighborhoods – or even paths we wanted to take because ‘that door over there’ looks neat.
I tell ya, this trip has got me seriously reconsidering my own front door.
What sort of details do you notice when you’re out adventuring?
Ami Maxine 