In Search of the Kind of Place: The Monastery Gardens

There are moments when peace feels almost visible.
In the Monastery Gardens in Utrecht, we found that feeling waiting quietly behind a large gate.
As we stepped inside, the city seemed to fade away. The air felt softer, slower — as if time itself was taking a breath.

Someone was playing the guitar in the distance.
The gentle sound carried through the garden, weaving between the trees and the paths.
Around us, people wandered calmly, each in their own rhythm, as if everyone understood this was not a place to rush through but to simply be in.

The stillness there wasn’t empty. It was full — of sound, of scent, of sunlight on leaves.
It reminded us how beauty often hides in simplicity, and how calmness is a kind of craft too.
The gates may separate it from the world outside, but what we felt there belongs everywhere:
a reminder to slow down, to listen, and to see.

That’s what thekindofplace is all about —
finding the spaces that hold quiet meaning and letting them teach us how to move more gently through the world.

Next time, we’ll go searching again.
For another place that feels like a deep breath.

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