Dražen Malbašić is a 24-year-old student of Economy from Mostar. Since the sixth grade, when he wasn’t even 13 years old, he started travelling. So far, he’s visited USA twice, England and Wales 5 times, Albania 3 times, Slovenia 2 times, Italy 4 times, and has traveled once to Portugal, France, Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Austria, Serbia, Romania and Norway… and he doesn’t plan on stopping at that.

I love Denmark! It doesn’t have anything so well-known like wine and Eiffel tower in France or pizza and Venice in Italy, but maybe this is also a reason why this country surprised me so much. Not only is it silent and not so well known, but also very beautiful and interesting to experience. I spent 6 months in Esbjerg as an Exchange student within Erasmus program. Therefore, I want to share my impressions of this country, lifestyle, nature and other things I got familiar with during my stay there.

Have you ever wondered why the day has 24 hours? Have you ever felt sorry that it is only 24? I have. I am the one who likes to think about these things and complain that 24 hours is not enough. Or I was. I think I generally managed to prove to myself that 24 is the perfect number and it is completely enough for everything. I had the most fruitful 24 in my life and I would like to share them. Take this as a guide how to spend 24 hours of your life or just as a story which I would like to remember and to dedicate to all the great people I met during my voluntary service in Lithuania.

We (a Polish-German couple met in Brussels during an international conference) decided that baby will not change our dreams but that we can share those dreams with the baby. Dreams about traveling. And that is how it was. Mama: a Polish journalist and papa: German photographer took small Hanna for a trip around the Black Sea. A six-month-long trip, by car, through nine countries (Romania, Moldova, Ukraine, Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Turkey and Bulgaria) and three “kind of” countries (Transnistria, Gagauzia and Nagorno-Karabakh)

One of the best things of travelling and living abroad is the fact that you can meet very interesting people you can learn from and get inspired. I had a chance to meet such an inspiring person and that is Tamara. We met on the Balkans, where we were working as EVS volunteers (European voluntary service). During the trips we made and time we spent together we talked a lot about our lives, loves, experiences and ideas. Tamara spent one year in Brazil working as a volunteer in a favela and here is the interview I made with her.

Short story from the life of a young ambitious Slovakian who dreamed about going to England since he was little. This young Slovak grew up in small family that not always had everything but worm hearts. His ambitions were always beyond thinkable and his patience had no limits. He waited and hoped for so long. After the college graduation he was offered a job in South African family living in UK. His first time on plane, first time in England, and what’s more, all alone.

After all the worried words of my parents, the advice that I have to be careful in this big and evil world and the surprisingly, but supporting reactions of my friends, I started to arrange my trip. I decided to go interrailing. I like traveling by train, and while travelling with my backpack can easily meet other people. Although I like being on my own, I’m a social person and meeting people during travel is important. So, I bought the ticket and a Lonely Planet, targeted cities to go to, packed my bags and took the train to my first destination, Berlin. In the train I felt strange but also a bit proud of myself.

Dalibor Stajic is a student at the Faculty of Filology in Skopje. He had an opportunity to visit lot of European cities, won a scholarship for a year of non-degree studies in USA and is active in the NGO sector. He says that traveling makes people more comfortable with differences and new experiences. Dalibor defines world travelers as true citizens of the world with a global vision.

In the summer of 2007, I stepped on Canadian soil for the first time. I’ve been to Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria before, but this was different. Unusual flats, new faces on the balconies, new graffiti on the walls. Not a single sign that resembles Macedonia. I didn’t like it at first glance – people seemed so cold, like no one was interested in anything else but their own business. That first week I kept asking myself if this was the promise land people talked about.

Macedonia? Hmm, that might be too much. That was the first idea, which came to my mind when I found my hosting organisation. It is true that I wanted to go to the Balkans from the beginning, but I had never thought about Macedonia. And here I am! One of the first challenges was the Cyrillic alphabet, but being the language freak that I am I prepared well. Luckily, because of the Internet it was not a problem to start learning it before coming here and as soon as I started I was really excited about it.