As I said before, I love traveling. People around me probably got sick of stories that start with “When I was in…”. Exactly 5 years ago I set a goal (or a challenge, if you want), to see at least a different foreign country every year. It might seem little for some of you or a lot for others, but I am happy that I succeeded in doing this over the last 5 years, although traveling was not always the main reason for going to a certain country.
I will shortly present the countries where I have been in these last 5 years.
2010–Turkey-the first foreign country that I have ever visited, through a school camp;
2011–Hungary, Slovenia, Italy, Austria-I was on a road trip around Europe with Italy as the main destination. I had the chance to see Italy from Venice to Rome;
2012–France-through a school exchange between my high school and a high school in France; I had the chance to live with a french family and I practiced french a lot, I would repeat the homestay experience at any time if I had the chance;
2013-was a difficult year, full of exams (end of high school exams, university entrance exams) but I managed to visit Bulgaria, because our High School prom was held there. We also visited Balchik castle, which is so beautiful!
2014–Spain, the country where I stayed the longest so far, almost a month, living near Madrid. Had lots of time to see main spots in Madrid and around it;
2015-I went to Bulgaria for the second time, the only foreign country so far where I have been twice and I will also go to Japan (the country I have been dreaming about since middle school) this year, but more about this in a later post;
All in all, I visited 8 foreign countries so far. There is still a long way until I reach 196 but I am proud I did visit these countries I mentioned above and that I have beautiful memories from each of them.
Short stories about my trips to these countries will come soon, so stay tuned!
I would like to hear if you also have similar goals :)!
