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In order to achieve this we are more and more often off the beaten tourist track. Our experience, which we already had the pleasure to make extensively in Asia, shows that the encounters in general quickly become warmer, more human and more joyful! So that you too can make these authentic experiences, we provide you with various information. Wherever necessary we share with you the important travel information, timetables and insider tips so that your trip will be as impressive as ours.

„You don’t travel to arrive, you travel to travel.“

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet

I probably got my interest in foreign cultures, food and architecture from my mom. She dragged us on our family vacations, mostly in the southern countries of Europe, to every church and museum. Not always to the delight of all family members. But at this point I really have to mention how grateful I am to my parents for making these vacations possible for us and for allowing me to experience and discover so much at a young age through them.

Well, since I have to finance my travels and my life in general somehow, I also have a job in Switzerland. I am lucky that I can experience one of my interests while travelling a little bit in my professional life. I am an architect and I am allowed to help to create a tiny piece of architecture around us. A great aspect of the profession is that it is relatively easy to quit after a project, go travelling and then start a new project again.

As you can see, I’ve always loved to travel, but a clear milestone (also for this blog here) was our joint trip to Asia in 2017. I knew I really wanted to do that, Paddy didn’t travel so much and so far before. But he got involved in the Asian experiment and we realized very quickly that we are not only ticking as a couple, but also as travel partners. I am super thankful for this fact. It just makes traveling and discovering so much more fun when you can share all this with someone who has the same interests.

This is also a big point why we want to share our travels with you and all other blog readers. Maybe we make you hungry for more with our posts, maybe it helps you plan your trip or maybe our reports take you to places you can (currently) only travel to by reading.

Unlike Mimi, I’ve started traveling to other continents on my own. I grew up quite locally in Switzerland with occasional trips to other European countries (e.g. Germany & Holland and France). This is by no means a disadvantage from my point of view, as I am very curious. Because of that I still have a lot of experiences to be made at the right place at the right time.

During my studies I am attracted to overseas for the first time. I am doing an exchange semester in Boston. I have described my highlights from five months in Boston plus various side trips here. After this experience I appreciate the freedom and new experiences as a foreigner in another country. As a bonus I got a good command of English for our further trips!

With this wealth of experience, I was eager to embark on our trip to Asia (details will follow later in this article). It was my first trip to this continent and has cost me a lot of effort to finaly start it – I am indescribably happy I made it! Now I am always drawn to far away countries as soon as I have some free time at a stretch.

When travelling I am more the spontaneous one – sometimes encounters take place in places where nobody expects them. So I don’t decide weeks in advance. It will be different anyway and it will be even more interesting. After all, we can’t count on Swiss timetables everywhere – so you can spend your time with other travellers in the bus terminal. In addition to the nice experience we get priceless insider tips. The unplannable leaves enough free space for such excursions to insider tips. This in turn benefits you: You can get inspired on our travel blog and enjoy these insider tips!

My personal travel motto is: Be spontaneous, plan only for the short term and get involved in discoveries that you might never have made without spontaneity!

We undertook our first long journey together in 2017 which was our personal start of the travel bug. In the year 2017 we have already been travelling in Asia for 11 months in a row. During these 11 months we set ourselves the goal of exhausting the visa duration (in the Asian region often around 4 weeks for a tourist visa) of the countries we visited and in most cases we pulled this off – in extreme cases even overdone (as in Indonesia).

Between long slow-travels we are drawn here and there – we try to stay true to our travel principles even on these shorter trips. Of course we don’t keep these experiences from you and show you how to enjoy the new cultures best on these short trips!

Have fun exploring foreign cultures here on CompassChronicle and of course everywhere in the world where you are. Maybe you have some great tips for us or even more recent information about a place than we have, then get in touch with us. We are looking forward to your message!

Your CompassChronicle Team

P.S. Always keep an eye on the compass when you travel!