Stories from the world

Experiences are always unique and very personal, no matter how similar they might be. Even if two people of the same sex, with similar backgrounds and similar characters, go through…

Those people who love the mountains and love the exhaustion after a long and demanding trekking tour, know what I am talking about when I say that once I got…

For a young person whose childhood and early adulthood were shaped by a communist and limiting mentality, all simple western things were a huge new thing. Getting on a plane…

Even if I am originally from Romania, and I love mountain hikes and nature, many of its beauties are still a mystery to me. I feel somehow ashamed when I…

Visiting new places always means discovering things you had never seen or experienced before. That is why so many of us love to travel. You never know what to expect…

During the November days, many of us get melancholic or struggle with the short hours of daylight and the colder temperatures that suddenly take control of our surroundings. It gets…

For many people, the name Tbilisi does not ring a bell. I got different reactions from people when I told them that I was going to Georgia, from questioning why…

For those who would like to have a piece of the Andalusian life experience, Cádiz is certainly not a bad choice. The small town situated at the south of Sevilla…

Hearing about places and experiencing them are always two very different stories. Otherwise, we could all just sit in front of our television and have the greatest experiences of our…

After about two weeks of a very adventurous and pleasant journey through Panama, we arrived at the Caribbean islands of Bocas del Toro.While we were waiting in Bocas Town on…

Mallorca has the reputation of being the 17th German state not only because many Germans like to benefit from the short and relatively cheap flights from different cities in Germany…

I am not the kind of person who studies travel magazines and googles for sightseeing tips before traveling to a new country. I do not own and do not like…

We arrived in New York after three weeks of an intense road trip on the West Coast from San Francisco to San Diego, and after a six-hour night flight from…

People always say amazing things about Peru, and after my visit there I certainly understand why. I was there for only two short weeks as my goal was to experience…

The first time I saw Tübingen was during a lazy autumn day in the year 2000. I had freshly moved to Germany and was barely speaking German. In order to…

In 2013 after I quit my job and decided to take a sabbatical year, the idea of walking the Camino de Santiago began to take forms in my mind. I…

The real reason why I went to Peru was to experience high mountains for the first time in my life and to find out how I was able to cope…

In 2018 I took a hiking trip to Nepal with a group of people I had never met before. It was an organized trip of sixteen people who happened to…

A few years ago, I met a nice Romanian girl through my job. I was already living in Germany, and she was based in Bucharest, Romania. We had a lot…

Ever since I was a child moving my body a lot had been part of my existence. I was a professional tennis player in the junior league in Romania, so…

During a trip to Germany's highest mountain, the Zugspitze, my friends and I experienced something I will never forget. We arrived on a cloudy Friday afternoon at our hotel and…