Although it means we’re heading into Winter (which, in Tasmania, is cold!), I really love Autumn.

Of course there’s the obvious stuff – the changing of the leaves, and the piles of leaves on the ground, bare branches reaching to the sky, the crisp mornings and perfect-for-cuddling evenings…

But I think the best thing about Autumn is the symbology of all of that.  It’s the change – it’s entering into a different state of mind.  It’s taking everything that was fresh and new in the Spring and beginning to turn inward.

I view Winter as a time of reflection and self-awareness, of an inner search and reassessment of the self.  And Autumn is the lead-up to that.  It’s the beginning of the end of the former self, before that reassessment takes place.  It’s finding your balance at the Autumnal Equinox and slowing turning in.

And, like any change, it’s a magical time of year.

The first week of the Wanderlust Blog Challenge is to blog about “Where is one place you don’t want to go?”.

There are a few places I don’t want to visit, and have no interest in visiting, but if I have to name one, it would be India. Don’t get me wrong – I love Indian food, I find Indian culture fascinating, but I just don’t think I could handle the mayhem of the big cities. The amount of people is simply vast and I have enough claustrophobia as it is, and to be honest, it’s just not that appealing to me.

And since this says one PLACE you don’t want to go, and doesn’t specify that it should be a country, it would be to bed. I have a love/hate relationship with bed – I love to sleep, but I do not like getting to sleep, and especially don’t like being woken up. Plus I feel it can be a huge waste of valuable time!

How about you? Where’s one place you don’t want to go?