My name is Teodora and I intend to write this blog with the help of my husband, Marius. Together, we have a three-year-old boy, George, who already loves traveling as much as we do. We live in Timisoara, Romania, a beautiful town full of history.
Our passion for travel is an old one. Actually, for me, this love began in early childhood, when my own parents took me on trips. One of my earliest memories is swimming in the waves of the Black Sea, clutching my father's shoulders. I must have been three at the time.
At five, I conquered my first mountain peak in Retezat Mountains. It’s true, my legs were far too weak to carry me the long distance, that’s why I made the journey riding the donkey of one of the shepherds in the area. An experience I’ll remember for the rest of my life.
With time, my love for traveling only grew. I won't bore you now with every detail of every trip I've made because there were a lot of them. I will jump directly to saying that this love played an important role in me choosing Geography as my field study at the University. Seeing the world with my eyes was no longer enough. I needed a deeper knowledge of it.
There, at this faculty, I’ve met my husband, a man sharing my passion to the fullest. As it’s only fitting, we hooked up on the first trip our teachers took us on, and we’ve been together ever since, traveling whenever we could.
We followed our Bachelor degree in Geography with Master studies in GIS (Geographical Informational System), something that enabled us to blend our love for spatial with the newest technologies. I started working for a local cadastre company, where I work ever since.
My husband had been more adventurous. He started working for the same company as me, then moved to an environmental protection NGO, then we opened our own company, TM GISCONSULTING SRL (you can check out our services here), which functions under his patronage. With it, he gained experience in a variety of domains.
2016 was the most wonderful year because that's when our son was born. Our present from the Easter Bunny because he first glimpsed the world on Easter's Sunday.
George's birth didn't slow us down. The first time we took him out of out home-town for the night he was two months old. Since then, we've tried to go somewhere at least once a month.
George was eight months old when he made his first trip abroad: Barcelona - the town of out honeymoon. Returning there so soon after the birth of our son felt like the best choice for us. My baby enjoyed it as much as we did. Yes, an eight-months-old baby smiling as he was watching the buildings from the special pouch we were carrying him in, with a sea breeze in his face. Hard to believe he could have a preference at such a fresh stage in his life, but trust me, he loved it.
Since then, we’ve been in various city-breaks as Berlin, London, Bristol, Bari, Szeged, etc., as well as various destinations in our own country (Deva, Sibiu, Paltinis, Maramures, Borsa, Oradea, Retezat Mountains, etc.). My son spent his first birthday in Retezat. He spent his third birthday at the gates of the Danube Gorge. We love the cities, the mountains and the sea equally and don’t pass down any opportunity to see something new.
We plan each trip ourselves, from choosing the location for spending the night to picking the landmarks we wish to see, planning the route and discovering the perfect places for lunch and dinner.
From our passion and our knowledge arose the idea of this blog. Here, you’ll see stories from our travels (past&future), get various tip$tricks useful when traveling with children, get help in picking the best landmarks for kids in various towns across Europe. Also, for each location from our stories, we’ll give you an example of a route with a few destinations, fit for a day of visiting, arranged so that one can maximize the available time, together with ideas for places to lunch and dine. If you want more or are interested in routing the landmarks of your choice, you can contact us, and, in exchange for a small fee, we can offer you alternative routes. We do this for cities that are not featured on this blog, too.
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