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Jenny Marsden: Inspiring Travel Tales of Finding Fulfillment in Simple Things
While Jen is an adventurous Aussie with an insatiable hunger to explore the world, she is quite realistic about what travel goal might be attainable for her at this moment. She says that even a lack of something in a new place can expand your view of the world...
Romaine Welds Visits Every Country with a 2 weeks Vacation Year
Romaine is the only known Jamaican and Caribbean person to visit all countries in the world - a fresh success on which we congratulate him! Full-time work and only 2 weeks of vacation time a year didn't stop him from reaching his goal. Although we interviewed...
Mikhail and Alexander: Travel Buddies Who Visited 193 UN Countries Together
Mikhail Zarubin and Alexander Zhdanov are travellers from Russia, now relocated to Australia. They both visited all UN 193 countries quite young but they continue to travel and explore together. "A friend is needed in travel", as they say, so we invite you to...
Albert Stutz Proves Traveling and Exploration Key to a Better World
Coming from Switzerland, Albert Stutz is successfully balancing life between his work, photography, learning to become a wine expert and travelling to every country. He is only 18 countries away from reaching this goal and getting there has learnt him that the...
François-Xavier, Breaks Barriers with Recent Visit to Afghanistan
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 Ehlers Mikkelsen Supermom Who Inspired Her Daughter to travel at 19
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 Sold Everything to Backpack the World
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...
Lídia and Rafael Travelling the World with Their Young Daughter
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: Lessons learned from a life of a young adventurer
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...
Shueyb Gandapur and his challenges with Pakistani Passport
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: Discover the Power of Storytelling in Travel
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...
Radwan Ziadeh Who Visited 130 Countries on a Syrian Passport
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...