Clau Olivares

03/11/2022

Clau | Travel Content Creator shared a post on Instagram: "Helado de Cempasúchil 🧡 para cerrar el Día de Mu***os como es debido. 📍Xicoténcatl 313 04100 Coyoacán, México Ya lo habías probado? 😵 . . ...

03/11/2022

« Después de todo la muerte solo es un síntoma de que hubo vida »
- Mario Benedetti
« After all, dead is not but just a symptom that there was life »
-Mario Benedetti
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31/10/2022

“As you are pretty, so be wise;
Wolves may lurk in every guise”
-Charles Perrault, Little Red Riding Hood 🐺

Double post as it is Halloween!! 👻
As promised here are the results of the magical shoot with .lux and 🖤
Thank you so much for your amazing photos!!
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19/10/2022

🎃BEST PLACES TO ENJOY PUMPKIN SEASON IN GERMANY 🎃

When I think of pumpkin patches I always picture the typical places in the U.S…not Germany?!??

I would have never related Germany to pumpkin patches but it actually is one of the best places to experience this, having even the largest pumpkin festival IN THE WORLD!!

So with pumpkin season and Halloween upon us, I wanted to share the 5 best (and most Instagrammable) places to visit in Germany if you too want to have this magical autumn experience 🧡✨

1. Ludwigsburg, Germany: The largest pumpkin festival in the world ( )
2. Pumpkin Festival at the Kaiserslautern Gartenschau
3. Bauer Lipp (near Frankfurt)
4. Sunshine Pumpkin Farm (Gerhardsbrunn)
5. Erlebnisbauernhof Gertrudenhof (Hürth – Hermülheim)

Do you know any other? 👇🏼
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17/09/2022

I’ve been busy.
Busy getting my s**t together, busy rebuilding myself, adapting to life post-Covid, rebuilding relationships, busy traveling and scratching bucket list places and experiences, but overall I’ve been busy enjoying, feeling, figuring things out…I’ve been busy LIVING.

Something that is not really seen in this “content creation journey” is that it really takes a lot of time planning the trips, the photoshoots, the outfits, the flights, the bookings, the itinerary, the countless hours waiting for people to get out of your frame and even when you get the shot, then it’s again the countless hours editing pictures, videos and then designing the feed, trying to get on top of trends… it’s actually hard work and time consuming to just “post” for a content creator and of course this is a choice we make happily because we enjoy all of that process, but that’s why we tend to spend most of our time engaging “digitally” instead of in real life; so these past 6 months I had to reconnect with my life outside social media, especially with myself, to reevaluate my goals, my problems and my stability.
This is still a work in progress as right now my plans to get the Lux Nationality are top priority, but I’m doing my best to give room for my creativity, my passion and specially the people in my life🫶🏼

So slowly but surely I will reappear here, I have TONS of content to edit so please be patient with me 😂
In the meantime I hope you enjoy these random and fun pictures of my summer before I take on the autumn vibes which I hope I’m in time for😂

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10/02/2022

✨BEST SPOTS IN PARIS P.5✨

Not so far from our previous spot, I’m pretty sure that you will recognize the next spot on the list😏

Best known as the birthplace of the modern form of the can-can dance and the movie of the same name “Moulin Rouge”, the dazzling cabaret is a worthy stop on your visit in Paris, at least to enjoy its iconic façade, or if your budget allows it, to enjoy its world famous shows (Maybe for a great Valentines date? 👀❤️)

I’ve had the great opportunity to enter to one of them. I think it was about 90€, yes a bit expensive for budget-friendly travelers, but I must say is worthy every penny, trust me you’ll enjoy one of the most dazzling performances I’ve ever seen, with dance,music and stunning wardrobes, plus the building itself will transport you to a fancy evening in Paris of the 1930s✨

What do you think? Is 90€ worth to travel back in time?
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04/02/2022

✨BEST VALENTINES GIFT (Travelers Edition)✨

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👜: Vault SmartBag by jvolpiani]]
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Couple months ago I had the pleasure to meet the geniuses behind Vault SmartBag by jvolpiani]] and to work together to create content that will be coming soon 😉 but they gifted me this bag an it truly has been a life changer!!
It has a security system that allows you to open and close your bag with your fingerprint giving you extra security, which as a traveler is probably the best gift when passing through airports, sleeping in hostels and simply walking around in pickpocket Capitals I feel super secure that my bag is safe💕

I wanted Sri recommend this bag for a Valentines gift but this beautiful design is SOLD OUT at the moment (clearly not suprising😉) but please follow and pay attention to the brand in Instagram and TikTok to be informed about the new upcoming and innovative designs! It’s truly a one of a kind gift for any occasion 💕

➡️ Vault SmartBag by jvolpiani]] ⬅️
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01/02/2022

✨BEST TRAVEL APPS (Low Cost*)✨
We’re starting the month of love and friendship!

For those who are planning a romantic getaway or a trip with your favorite person to or within EU, I will be sharing here my favorite apps to organize my trips at the best price 😉

Today we start with best transport apps💁🏻‍♀️ Which Airlines fly cheap??? To which destinations??? I got you covered 😎

⚠️SEARCH IN PRIVATE MODE! So you can assure the best deals without the algorithm increasing the prices😉

❤️Best search engines to find best deals and dates:


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➡️Always cross check with the airlines’ main websites-sometimes there’s better deals or schedules there😉

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And in case you are planning a bigger surprise than a weekend getaway...

❤️Flying from America/Latin America:
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➡️Arriving to: Madrid/Barcelona/Amsterdam/Paris
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28/12/2021

¿Que si se siente raro regresar a México?

Ya me ha hecho esta pregunta varias veces🙈 y la verdad es que si y no😅

Cuando uno agarra su maleta y sale de México generalmente lo hace por un deseo de encontrar algo mejor, mejores oportunidades, una mejor calidad de vida... y por muy difícil que es adaptarse a un nuevo país como extranjero..generalmente sí encontramos ese “algo mejor”; así que en mi experiencia, la primera vez que regresé a México después de haber vivido en “el primer mundo” solo podía ver todo lo que estaba mal con el país, la pobreza, la suciedad, la falta de educación, el desorden.. como que todo lo veía a través de una lupa.

Después de haber vivido en Europa más tiempo y de haber vivido mi duelo de adaptación...realmente empecé a extrañar más mis costumbres, mi cultura, la comida, EL SOL! y a darme cuenta que aún allá tampoco la vida es color de rosa y no todo funciona como debería...en realidad en muchos casos “la manera latina” es mejor 💁🏻‍♀️
Así que la segunda vez que regresé pude apreciar realmente todo lo bueno que mi bello país también tiene para ofrecer✨

A partir de ahí como que mi cerebro simplemente dividió: Esto es México y esto es Europa 👐🏼 te vuelves un camaleón capaz de caminar entre estos dos mundos, con sus pros y sus cons.. lo que sí es que debido a esto siempre te sientes diferente de las personas a tu alrededor porque tú tienes ambas perspectivas y ellos solo tienen una...

Para todos mis expats? Cuál ha sido su experiencia?🙈

01/11/2021

🇲🇽: “Todos vamos a dar el lugar donde viven los mu***os, algo debe de tener de bonito, porque nadie regresa”
Hoy y mañana se celebra DÍA DE MU***OS 🧡💀💜

Esta es una celebración única en el mundo. Se trata de una festividad que mezcla nuestro antepasado azteca con tradiciones cristianas de la influencia colonial española y que hoy se ha convertido en un ritual cargado de color y simbolismo que traspasa fronteras y llega incluso a la moda y otras fiestas populares.
🇬🇧: “We are all going to end in the place where the dead live, it must be beautiful, because nobody comes back "
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Today and tomorrow we celebrate DAY OF THE DEAD 🧡💀💜

This is a unique Mexican celebration in the world. It is a festival that mixes our Aztec culture with Christian traditions of the Spanish colonial influence that today has become a ritual full of color and symbolism that crosses borders and even reaches fashion and other popular festivals.
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28/10/2021

🇬🇧:They tried to burn her not knowing she was a flame 🔥✨
- .h.sin
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The Halloween and Día de Mu***os spirit is starting to build up! Do you celebrate these days?
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¡El espíritu de Halloween y Día de Mu***os ya se están sintiendo cada vez más! ¿Celebras estos días?
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27/10/2021

“The day he left me...was the day that I died...and I was reborn as a WITCH” 🔮✨
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25/10/2021

LET’S SIT WITH OUR DEMONS AND LISTEN🖤 P2

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It’s still stunning to me how we as people only seem to acknowledge the chronic sadness known as depression or fear known as ✨Anxiety ✨ when that leads some to commit su***de. It is unfortunate that the conversation about su***de and depression is sparked by such terrible occurrences. But why aren’t we looking at sadness and anxiety as one of the leading emotions for people who deal with mental illnesses?

People don’t talk about depression or anxiety because a lot of them are ashamed of it. It leads them to a state of desperation that forces them to choose to live with the reality of their sad universe, or death.

This is why most people refuse to ask for help or feel ashamed if they receive it..either in form of therapy or medication...but why? Why should someone have to feel ashamed by probably the most courageous act one can do for themselves..seek help to be happier, healthier, more self-loving...

I think If we lived in a more accepting, more tolerant world that validated a wide range of emotions as the norm, maybe we could help more people suffering. Sadness, like happiness, anger, and other emotions is perfectly acceptable.
And we all should learn to recognize them and deal/control them

I want to open more conversations about this, so maybe tomorrow people won’t have to go through 23+ year of asking internally “WTF is wrong with ME?!?” But being too afraid to ask for help to look for the answer, I want to open more conversations about this, so people can talk about it naturally without shame.. so going to therapy is not taboo and just for the “Crazy people”...
I want to open more conversations about this so hopefully we can all one day sit comfortably with our demons..and listen to what they have to say... to learn what they want to tech us what we need to heal ... and to love them...to love the darker side of us for letting the light shine through ✨

23/10/2021

“Si nada nos salva de la muerte, que al menos el amor nos salve de la vida” -Pablo Neruda
Ustedes ya están listos para Halloween y Día de Mu***os?💀

Cuéntenme de qué se van a disfrazar?? 🧡

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🇬🇧: "If nothing saves us from death, may at least love save us from life" -Pablo Neruda
Are you ready for Halloween?🎃
Let me know which costume te you wearing??🧡

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22/10/2021

LET US SIT AND TALK WITH OUR DEMONS 🖤 Part 1/2

“Our lives are made up of so many moments. To deny ourselves from emotions that seem darker and filled with uncertainty and discomfort is like denying ourselves the ability to be human. “

I want to open more conversations about this. This year I was blessed with the opportunity to be left alone with just me and my demons among 4 walls..for months I’ve been facing them..hearing them out and learning from them...
The darker parts in me exist so the light can also shine through✨

But by any means I want just to romanticize this experience.. it’s been hard... it’s been the s**ttiest I’ve felt so far...

Feeling sad felt abnormal and wrong because after all I do have a great life! “Why shouldn’t I be happy?” ... so “I was happy” and I thought being a happy person meant that I had to be happy on a day-to-day basis. I will be the first person to say that I was very wrong. Acting happy all the time has proven to be a mask to hide deeper emotions that I was too afraid to face. In our society, when we cry, people around us tend to feel uncomfortable because they don’t know what they should do.
If you don’t think so...just analyze this: There’s a very simple and common question people like to ask “How are you?” and we all feel the same automatic reaction to answer “I’m fine”...it’s a survival skill we’ve developed...because if the answer is any different...neither of the people involved knows how to act and feels endangered🤦🏻‍♀️
In all honesty, I used to get uncomfortable when others cried or showed any sort of vulnerability...

➡️To be continued...
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20/10/2021

🦋REAL BODIES🦋

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“Let’s kiss those parts we have hated so much for so long...let’s cover them in butterflies to remind us that the body that we have is real, with all the hair, with all the marks, with all the rolls, with all the scars...let’s apologize for all the times we let other people’s judgmental opinions dictate our self worth and grade our level of beauty..and specially for accepting the worst ones to come from the person staring at us in the mirror...

Let’s be grateful with this body that we live in that allows us to do all we need to do, it takes us to all the places we need to go and it persists through all the stress we put it through... this is a real body and as a real body it’s worthy and deserving of love”

16/10/2021

Otoño en Europa 🍂🧡🍁
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Un poco tarde pero démosle la bienvenida a mi época favorita del año!!
No sé ustedes pero yo vengo de Cuernavaca “La ciudad de la eterna primavera” así que realmente nunca había experimentado el otoño hasta que me mudé a Europa y de verdad que me emociona mucho ver las diferentes tonalidades de las hojas de los árboles, es verdaderamente una belleza 😍 algo que los europeos ya no aprecian tanto y por lo que me ven como loca cada vez que me sacan a carretera y voy pegada a la venta así: 😍😍😍😍

Soy la única a la que le pasó esto?🙈
🇬🇧: Autum in Europe 🍂🧡🍁
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A little late but let's welcome my favorite season!!
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I don’t know about you but I come from Cuernavaca "The city of eternal spring" so I had never really experienced autumn until I moved to Europe and I get really excited to see the different shades of the leaves of the trees, it is truly a beauty 😍 something that Europeans no longer appreciate so much I guess and that’s why they look at me like I’m crazy every time they take me out on the road and I am mesmerized in the window like this: 😍😍😍😍

Am I the only one? 🙈
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15/10/2021

✨UNDERRATED: SOFIA, BULGARIA 🇧🇬

Little had I heard about this beautiful country before visiting it, but that’s part of what make it exciting 😎

Sofia is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria, a city full of history since the Roman times has been claimed by different groups like the Huns, the Slavs and the Ottomans; it has been torn apart many times during the Balkan wars and the WWI-II but it always reborn stronger.

During my visit I was surprised by the different mix of architecture from the different eras, on one side you have very simple buildings from the Communists occupation and in the other you have gorgeous churches of different religions.

If you are looking for a budget friendly place to visit, add Bulgaria to your list, I’ll tell you more about this beautiful country and it’s best places to visit in this new chapter of ✨UNDERRATED PLACES✨

12/10/2021

Mama S O R E L L E A M O R E] said that it was okay 🖤💁🏻‍♀️

I’ve been following S O R E L L E A M O R E] for so so many years now, since she won the contest to travel the world🖤 and something that I have always admired of her is her confidence in her own skin and the beauty of creating art with her body👏

To answer to the surprisingly only 2-3 people who had the audacity to make mean comments about my picture, I wanted to clarify that no, I did not posted it to seek attention, actually I posted it as a self-achievement moment! I’ve been wanting to post this picture for 3 years already! But I was always worried about how it would be perceived or what would people say... especially because I took it on a time were even my own Family commented that “I was too fat” (which btw was not at all true)

The picture was taken in a moment of acceptance of my own beautiful body and a moment of connecting with nature.. to me this picture represents self-love and freedom.. to me is empowering... it’s ART💗

So after doing all the work and self-love journey I finally posted it and I’m very proud of that 😌

If you think differently, that’s okay I respect that😌 just doesn’t make mean comments or just don’t follow me, as simple as that 🤗

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05/10/2021

Fun fact about me: I’m coconuts for coconuts 🥥🤪

Since I was a kid I had this obsession about what would I do if I’m ever stranded in an island (If you watch Flight 29 Down or Lost maybe you also have given this a thought 😂)

That’s why I came to the conclusion that the only thing I needed to survive was to find some coconuts. Hear me out, hear me out, they provide both food and a hydrating drink with a lot of benefits to keep you strong and healthy and you can use it peel either as bowls, cups, tools.. you can use it as wood to light a fire... as tool to defend yourself and if you are creative enough you can even use them to make a raft 💁🏻‍♀️

So what do you think? Am I too crazy?😂

24/09/2021

✨The year of the Sand Castles✨

Do you remember when we were little and we went to the beach and every year we insisted that our parents bought us the same little buckets and little sticks to build the best sand castle?

I remember how hard my cousins ​​and I tried to create a fence so that the water wouldn’t wash away our castle, the hours and hours that we ventured digging and going back and forth carrying heavy buckets of wet sand... the hours and hours that We spent under the sun looking for the most beautiful shells to decorate our castle...

And what happened? Many times the water reached us and destroyed our castle and there you had us trying to rebuild it again and even in the best of days when our castle survived the tide and the people passing buy...as soon as it was time to leave, the little castle stayed there... all those hours of effort, dedication...we left them there; maybe someone else would admire our work or most likely the tide and wind at night would destroyed it...but we didn't care one bit...

This year I realized that the more we grow, the more we lose sight of the importance of the moment and we cling to the ideal the sand castle represents... what becomes important is to avoid its destruction at all costs... but it is still sand in the middle of the beach after all..So when it inevitably collapses... we collapse with it.

I think these past 2 years we had our castles collapsing...maybe for us to remember and to resume that calm attitude we had as children when our castle was washed away by the tide and we simply rebuilt it... but above all, learning that the important thing was never the castle itself... but he process and the experience of building it and enjoying the moment...and then letting it go peacefully...

15/09/2021

🇲🇽ASÍ SE LLEVA A MÉXICO EN LA PIEL🇲🇽
Oficialmente soy una traidora que va a celebrar el día de Independencia nada más y nada menos que en España 🤦🏻‍♀️ (DESHONOR! DESHONRA! DESGRACIA! I know I know 🥴)

Pero como bien lo dice uno siempre lleva a México en la piel!
Sin importa en dónde esté siempre me siento orgullosa de ser mexicana! De ser parte de una cultura tan rica y maravillosa como la nuestra, de una gente que deja el corazón en todo lo que hace y que sabe vivir la vida cantando y riendo.

QUE VIVA MÉXICO!! 🇲🇽

P.S. Thank you and for being so nice and helping a lonely gal to create this 💖

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