Happier in Hyères
“I was only happy once; that was at Hyères;” Robert Louis Stevenson: Letter to Sidney Colvin, March 19, 1891 Growing up, I felt a strong urge to change places, in the hope that this would increase my overall happiness. What I longed for was a “Tapetenwechsel,” a wallpaper change, as we call a change of scenery in German. Leaving my hometown, so I believed, would rid me of the stale air and stuffiness that surrounded […]