François-Xavier Paradis-Garneau is just the perfect candidate for our Intrepid Travel award - he was the first known traveller (to us) to visit Afghanistan since the Taliban take over in August 2021. This was the perfect excuse for us to interview this Canadian...
Mette and Laerke Ehlers Mikkelsen is a great Danish traveller who travelled the World (only 4 countries left to finish UN 193), built a remarkable career AND raised three children along with that. Her middle daughter Laerke says that she caught the travel bug...
Madeleine Karlsson is an adventurous Scandinavian girl who will remind you of why all the backpacking stories make sense and lure you out to travel. She is restless in her travels. While she may have started out as a "sold it all to backpack" traveller, she is...
We are thrilled to announce a new rubric for our interviews - The 'not alone' travellers and excited to open up with this inspiring young couple from Brazil. Lídia and Rafael Diedrich travelled together all the way through their twenties and now they are...
Billy Offland is a 24-year-old from Manchester, UK who was fortunate enough to travel extensively with his family from a young age. He became addicted to the sense of adventure and learned three main lessons from his early travel experiences: to travel with a...
How is it to travel on a Pakistani passport, to be pulled to the side for a "random check" at almost every airport and why do people have a special soft spot in their heart for foreign travellers? Discover this and so much more in this beautifully written...
Juan Martinez Camargo is a Colombian traveller, photojournalist and blogger. "As a former contributor for Deutsche Welle in Germany and a freelance photojournalist for BBC Travel, I learned that storytelling can make a huge difference in how we all see the...
Have you ever been pulled to the side at the border for a "random check" and then questioned before you were let into the country? Meet Radwan Ziadeh from Syria who has had this experience no less than 130 times, because this is how many countries he has...
Thomas Demetz started with a goal of visiting the whole TCC list until, as he says, he discovered NomadMania. Thomas has left his home in the Dolomites and now resides in Panama, where he finds everything he needs. He doesn't shy away from an adventure while...
We are continuing our LPI rubric of interviews. This time we talk to Levon Poghosyan, an Armenian who lives in Germany. He brings us a rarely seen dose of humour which only proves that he is not taking travel all that seriously, but instead he chooses to make...
Mark Vella Gera is one of our rare travellers and members from Malta. His love for travel brought him to explore the "Old continent" most of all, but he is curious to see what lies beyond. Travel brings him an escape from, as he says, the sometimes more limited...
Wassim Allache is one of the biggest travellers we know from Algeria, which is one of the countries in the Low Passport Index ranking - in fact, the listing was Wassim's idea. The owner of Algeria Tours 16, in other words 'your man in Algeria', fluent in a...