Hello and welcome! I am Ashmee, a 30-year-old Indian living with my husband in the beautiful city of Gent in Belgium and this is where I share some sweet & some spicy (like honey & chilli) adventures of my life and hence the name of my blog – “HoneyChilliStories” 🙂

Hailing from the “city of dreams” Mumbai, I completed my Bachelor of Computer Science in 2013 and started my corporate job straight away. I was a Software Engineer at a big MNC and before I knew it, 6 years just flew by. The job was nice and comfortable but around the 4th or 5th year of working I started wondering “Is this something that I want to do for the long term?”

Although my mind was into the job, my heart craved something else, but I didn’t know what it was craving for. But then I observed that whenever I had free time on my hand, I used to immerse myself in reading beautiful & colourful blogs about food, travel, and different adventures of people worldwide. I also loved watching YouTube videos on these topics. These blogs and videos always transported me into this dreamy land where I imagined myself doing the same and I genuinely felt happy and excited thinking about it.

I had no knowledge or idea back then if blogging and making videos full time can even be a career choice that I could pursue! But I could not ignore my heart’s desire and started researching and realized that indeed it can be made into a career although it was not an easy one and needed lots of perseverance. Frankly speaking, I had no guts to leave my comfortable and well-paying job to start something new from scratch which required immense patience. But I also knew in my heart that I would regret it if I didn’t even give it a try.

And finally, in 2020 the time came when my husband (working in the IT sector as well) was offered an amazing opportunity to work in Belgium, Europe. We both love Europe and could not resist this chance, so he took the offer. This meant that either I find a new job in Europe and continue my corporate journey or I can take this as a sign and give Blogging and YouTube a chance and now you know which path I choose for myself 🙂

Now that you know how I landed here, I welcome you into this space that I have created with my happy heart. I hope with my blog posts and YouTube videos you get transported into dreamy adventures with me. I am excited to share my journey with you.

Thanks for following along 🙂