Wednesday 8 January 2014

About me and the blog

Hello and welcome!
My name is Irina and travelling is a big passion of mine. In June 2012 I decided to create this travel blog where I can share stories about my travels, my experiences, emotions and travel tips. I hope to inspire you to travel and to show you that you don't need to have a lot of money or many weeks of vacations to be able to travel. The important thing is to have a desire to travel and to be well prepared.

My first travel outside my home country was in 1994 to Hungary and Slovakia. Later that year I visited Greece. In 1998 I visited Austria, Hungary again and Turkey. In 2002, 2003 and 2004 I had the opportunity to work and travel in the US for a total of 14 months. Since 2002 I travelled somewhere every year, some of the trips being business trips. At one point I totally caught the travel bug and I intentionally started planning a new trip every year. At first I was travelling by myself, then with my husband and in the last two years we travel with our daughter too. We live on the West Coast of Canada in beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia.

I don't like to travel to the same destination more then once. There are so many beautiful and exciting places around the world and I want to visit as many as I can. Of course it happens to go to the same place several times but the last time this happened, I felt that I am wasting my time there.

I hope that many of you will find something interesting, exciting and useful in my blog and despite the different travel styles of different people, you will feel inspired to start travelling or planning your trip.

In Hawaii