Warm welcome!

As you seem to be curious and are hopefully enjoying my content, here you have a short introduction.

I am a woman in her thirties, raised in Berlin, Germany and on Lanzarote, Spain and also having lived in Shenzhen, China and Vancouver, Canada. I have a passion for travel and did diverse solo travels but also some with friends or lately with my partner. As you will quickly notice the combination of photography and traveling is tightly connected for me. In this blog I share my journeys to give insides about my recommendations and experiences in different cities and countries.

So far I have visited 35 countries and there is still loads to explore on this beautiful world. Here are the countries I have been to so far:

This map is a screenshots of my FindPenguins account, where I track the countries visitied.

SOME FURTHER RANDOM FACTS ABOUT ME:

• I do smile and laugh a lot

• Talking is one of my favorite hobbies if you can call it so. Getting to know people, discuss, interact, exchange… I love it!

• I am fluent in German, Spanish and English

• Cooking and eating are further passions of mine and the culinary enjoyment is an important part of my travels as well

• TED talks or other interesting, mostly self development talks or podcast are my day to day input for growth. You should never stop learning!

In my first post you can find some more details about me. Still not enough? Feel free to follow and ask! I am looking forward in seeing you back and love to virtually take you on my journeys.

Love, Mareike

Quick excursion to my name:

My name is Mareike and since that is quite hard to pronounce for anyone not speaking German or Dutch people got creative by naming me Mia, Miya, Myra, Mary, May or Maria just to name a few nicknames. Mostly it was a new nickname each country I visited or lived in. Basically I react as long as it starts with an “M” 😄 One friend used to call me Missus and I figured that it is another form of misses, madam, wife or similar. Since one of my deepest passions is traveling and I was looking for a name related to that topic I thought about myself as being “married” or at least deeply connected with my wanderlust, which lead to “Missus Wanderlust“.