Orhan, tell us something about your early years and how your interest in travel developed. Since my childhood years, I wanted to live the “difference”. There wasn’t any town left in Turkey that I didn’t visit. In those years, there were 67 provinces in Turkey. (Now...
Michael, you have launched a project called Global Degree (and a website to go with it). Tell us something about this project, what inspired it and what your hopes are with it. Global Degree is a web series about 3 travellers visiting 193 UN nations in 60 months. The...
Tell us something about your childhood and how the travel bug bit you. I was born in 1986 and I´m the oldest of 3 siblings. In my childhood our parents always used to travel with us. My whole family is from Germany and my parents moved to Austria short before my...
Stefan, tell us something about your childhood and how the travel bug bit you. My parents are workaholics and the one vacation was Disney World when I was 4. I studied Mandarin Chinese in high school. Our junior year class trip to China lit the fuse. The first trip I...
Carlos from Spain joined the UN Masters List of individuals who have been to every country in the world a few months ago. In this interview, he tells us a little bit about his take on travel. Tell us something about your childhood and how the travel bug bit...
Jason, you finished all UN countries in September last year. So, how did it feel? How did you celebrate? What did you do in your final country? It was really a mixture of emotions. A combination of relief and excitement more than anything. Exciting to have finally...
For the first time, we are presenting a double interview with a travel couple - both professionals in the industry and who have developed their travel profiles independently to start with before 'joining forces' a few years ago. Jack and Sandy bring a flavour of South...
Fabio, tell us a little about yourself and your background and how your love for travel developed. I was born and raised in Milan, Italy. I started travelling at 18, I moved to the US then for a couple of years and circumstances brought me to live in Asia...
Ismo, tell us something about your early years in Finland and how you became interested in travel. I was born on Sunday 3rd September 1944 and the cease-fire of the Continuation War between Finland and Soviet Union started next morning and led to the final peace. I...
Michela, you are Italian who has spent quite some time in Germany and you are now based in Australia. How has living in these different countries changed you as a person and how could you compare the experience in each of these places? I lived in Germany as an expat...
For those well-versed in the traveller community, Sascha needs no introduction. One of our highest ranking travellers, whose knowledge of Africa is second to none and who has even formed his own club - which we thoroughly recommend - the author of Traveling: 30 Years...
Karin, you hold the world record for dives in most countries in the world. Tell us a little about the background to your interest in diving, how you got the idea to try diving 'everywhere' and where you still feel you would like to dive. It was on a rough patch of the...