Vicki, tell us something about your early life and how your interest in travel emerged. It might seem like a weird thing to say, but travel has always been ‘normal’ for me. I was very lucky to grow up in the UK and travelled to Europe and the North America with my...
Steven, tell us something about your background and how your interest in travel developed. I grew up in Belgium, where I live again today. I have always been a very curious person, and this is why I travel - I am just curious, and I get interested in almost everything...
Tony tell us something about yourself and how you ended up living in Kiribati. I'm a Vietnamese-Australian who grew up in Melbourne within a typical Asian family. I didn't want to follow the typical professions my family wanted for me, such as engineering or health...
Thomas, tell us something about your childhood and how your love for travel developed. I travelled very little as a child. My first trip was by bicycle to Italy when I was 16 years old, it was at the other side of the lake but Italy was completely unknown to me. After...
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...