Where Would Anaïs Nin Go Now?
Five cities for the sensual, curious, and slightly unruly.
Anaïs Nin knew how to make a life feel like literature.
Paris. Diaries. Psychoanalysis. Artists. Affairs. Obsession. Rooms full of conversation. A relentless curiosity about what happened beneath the respectable surface of things.
So this is not a historical Anaïs Nin itinerary.
It’s an imagined one.
If Nin arrived today with a notebook, a good coat, several complicated relationships, and absolutely no intention of behaving sensibly, where might she go?
I have some ideas.
The Virgo Trip
Five places for beautiful details, slow mornings, and getting your shit together.
September is Virgo energy.
Which, depending on your relationship with astrology, means either Mercury is doing something important in the sky or you suddenly feel compelled to buy a new notebook and reorganize your entire life.
I respect both interpretations.
Virgo is associated with ritual, discernment, craft, the body, service, detail, and the quiet satisfaction of putting things where they belong.
And that makes for a very particular kind of trip.
Not ten cities in fourteen days.
Not running through an airport with one shoe in your hand.
A Virgo trip has a beautiful little hotel. A market in the morning. Something made by hand. Long walks. Good food. A book. Maybe a spa. Definitely a notebook.
Everything has a purpose, but nothing needs to be hurried.
And no, you don’t have to be a Virgo.
Maybe you just need to borrow one for a week.