gottacaseofwanderlust

Darja Karstens, originally from Germany, has been living in Lyon France as an expat for 4 years. Daria has worked for as a travel tour guide and shares her insights from this experience as well as living abroad.on this episode, we chat about:- tips for adjusting to life in a new country - finding friends in a new place - advice for aspiring tour guides - and more!featured questions: What were some of the initial cultural differences between France and Germany? ​ What was the most difficult part about adjusting to life abroad in Lyon? ​ For those interested in being travel tour guides, what advice have you learned in your experience that you wish you would’ve known before you started leading tours? ​ What was the most difficult part about being a tour guide? ​ How did you balance enjoying the tour and navigating the stresses of leading? ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━connect with Darja here!✨ Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/flying_awaay?igsh=MW5jMjRxbThhZ2poZA==✨ Travel guides:https://www.thatch.co/@darja━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━connect with me here :)Instagram:✨ @lydiaschultzzhttps://www.instagram.com/lydiaschultzz/ ✨TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lydiaschultzz ✨Travel Blog:gottacaseofwanderlust.com✨Travel Guides:https://www.thatch.co/@gottacaseofwanderlust ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━

Joanne Fan is a Taiwanese American social media travel influencer extremely knowledgeable about Taiwan, Japan and South Korea. on this episode, we chat about:- how Joanne moved to Seoul, South Korea- expectations vs. reality about living abroad - working as a content creator on social media featured questions:1. What were some of the initial biggest challenges you faced when adjusting to life abroad?2. What advice would you wish you would’ve known beforehand?3. If you had to choose, what’s your favorite and least favorite part about living in Seoul?━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━connect with Joanne here!✨ Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/joanneffan?igsh=b2w5cnlmYmFhbDl1✨ Travel guides:https://www.thatch.co/@justjoanne━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━connect with me here :)Instagram:✨ @lydiaschultzzhttps://www.instagram.com/lydiaschultzz/ ✨TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lydiaschultzz ✨Travel Blog:gottacaseofwanderlust.com✨Travel Guides: https://www.thatch.co/@gottacaseofwanderlust ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━

As someone who was born, raised and currently living in Egypt in the coastal city of Alexandria, Farah is an expert on Egypt and shares her advice for traveling to this amazing country. on this episode, we chat about- solo traveling in Egypt - cultural do’s and don’t’s in Egypt - must try food in Egypt - and much more!featured questions:​ What should solo female travelers know before visiting?​ What are some cultural “do’s and don’t’s” when traveling in Egypt?​ Must visit cities or experiences?​ What are your favorite foods?━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━connect with Farah here!https://www.theegyptiantraveler.com/post/debunking-myths-about-traveling-to-egypt✨ Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/theegyptiantravelerblog?igsh=MnpxNGo1Ymw5Zzdw✨ Travel blog:━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━connect with me here :)Instagram:✨ @lydiaschultzzhttps://www.instagram.com/lydiaschultzz/ ✨TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lydiaschultzz ✨Travel Blog:gottacaseofwanderlust.com✨Travel Guides:https://www.thatch.co/@gottacaseofwanderlust ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━

Faatimah is a solo female traveler passionate about local cultures, photography, and travel planning for Muslims. on this episode, we chat about: - advice for Muslim solo female travelers- Faatimah’s favorite destination - Faatimah’s experience getting scuba certified - and more!Featured questions: 1. What advice would you give to those wanting to solo travel?2. Can you describe how traveling as a Muslim woman may look different than non-Muslim women? 3. Which destination was particularly memorable as a Muslim traveler? 4. What is your favorite neighborhood in New York City to photograph? 5. Why was scuba diving a life-changing experience?━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━connect with Faatimah here!✨ Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/faatimah_travels?igsh=MWhzbnZxNzF0bml1ag==✨ Travel guides:https://www.thatch.co/@faatimah━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━connect with me here :)Instagram:✨ @lydiaschultzzhttps://www.instagram.com/lydiaschultzz/ ✨TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lydiaschultzz ✨Travel Blog:gottacaseofwanderlust.com✨Travel Guides: https://www.thatch.co/@gottacaseofwanderlust ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━

Petra was born and raised in Thailand and now works as a digital nomad in the United States. Petra also has cultural-based travel expertise in South Korea and Brazil.On this episode, we chat about:- what it was like for Petra growing up in Thailand - the gastronomy of Thailand and South Korea (must eats!)- how to have more local cultural experiences - and much more!Featured questions:1. As someone who grew up in Thailand, can you share any aspects of the culture you appreciate?2. What recommendations do you have for those wanting to travel to Thailand? 3. If you had to pick your favorite Korean and Thai dishes, what would they be?4. Does South Korea or Thailand have better street food?5. What were some cultural shocks you experienced when moving to Brazil?━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━connect with Petra here!✨ Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/polyglotpetra2.0?igsh=cDdoZWsyam5ueWNx✨ Travel blog:https://polyglotpetra.com✨Homestays in Thailand:━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━connect with me here :)Instagram:✨ @lydiaschultzzhttps://www.instagram.com/lydiaschultzz/ ✨TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lydiaschultzz ✨Travel Blog:gottacaseofwanderlust.com✨Travel Guides: https://www.thatch.co/@gottacaseofwanderlust ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━

Sivan advocates for responsible and cultural travel, imperfect sustainability, and vegan-friendly foods. If you’re interested in being a better traveler, this episode is for you!  on this episode, we chat about: - actionable advice to be a better traveler  - does “supporting local” actually make a difference? - the difference between sustainable vs. regenerative travel  - and much more!! highlights:  1. What sparked your wanderlust? (00:58) 2. How do you define sustainable travel? (03:31) 3. What’s the difference between all these different travel terms, such as sustainable vs. regenerative travel? (05:55) 4. Was there a specific trip or experience that made you more invested in being a responsible traveler? (08:39) 5. Everyone’s always talking about the importance of “supporting local businesses”. but why is it actually important to buy local? (11:04) 6. Staying at guesthouses and homestays to be more sustainable (12:59) 7. How do you find guesthouses/homestays and how do you make sure locals actually run them? (14:48) 8. Unconventional tips or advice for travelers wanting to be more sustainable and responsible (17:31) 9. Rapid fire questions (24:15) 10. Where to connect with Sivan (28:01)━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━connect with Sivan:✨ Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/sivan_travelsgreen?igsh=M2tid3EwazF4Y3Jz✨ travel guides: https://www.thatch.co/@sivan_travelsgreen━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━connect with me! :)Instagram:✨ @lydiaschultzzhttps://www.instagram.com/lydiaschultzz/ ✨TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lydiaschultzz ✨ Travel Blog:gottacaseofwanderlust.com✨ Travel Guides: https://www.thatch.co/@gottacaseofwanderlust 

Vandana is a digital marketing specialist and travel expert in Sri Lanka.on this episode, we chat about:- traveling to Sri Lanka- cultural differences between Sri Lanka and India - Vandana’s experiences living abroad in Pakistan, Sweden and Denmark- and much more!━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━connect with Vandana!✨ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vandiihettii?igsh=djM1c21vM3Rma3Nx✨Travel guides: https://www.thatch.co/@ResponsibleRoamer━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━connect with me! :)Instagram:✨ @lydiaschultzzhttps://www.instagram.com/lydiaschultzz/ ✨TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lydiaschultzz Travel Blog:✨ gottacaseofwanderlust.com✨ Thatch Travel Guides: https://www.thatch.co/@gottacaseofwanderlust

Aditi is a solo female traveler who prioritizes slow, immersive travel off the tourist trail. Aditi’s travel content focuses on South and Southeast Asia, and most recently, the gorgeous Seychelles Island off East Africa. on this episode, we chat about: - Aditi’s advice for those wanting to slow travel - travel in the Seychelles islands- pros and cons of remote working- and more!!━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━connect with Aditi here!✨ Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/the.beachybitch?igsh=Z2JzOHh6dzdmNzht✨ Travel guides:https://www.thatch.co/@adititipnis━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━connect with me here :)Instagram:✨ @lydiaschultzzhttps://www.instagram.com/lydiaschultzz/ ✨TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lydiaschultzz ✨Travel Blog:gottacaseofwanderlust.com✨Travel Guides: https://www.thatch.co/@gottacaseofwanderlust ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━

Sonja is a seasoned Nepal trekking specialist who was born and raised in the Netherlands. Sonja has been to Nepal over a dozen times and now partners with a Sherpa Trekking company in Nepal that prioritizes responsible tourism. on this conversation, we chat about: - what travelers should know before going to Nepal - how Nepal captured Sonja’s heart - best places, trails, and foods to try in Nepal - and more!! highlights:  What sparked your wanderlust? (0:33) Can you recall any cultural shocks you experienced on your first trip to Nepal? (01:23)  Is Nepal a pretty affordable place to travel to? (04:57) Food and food safety in Nepal (06:28)  Best places to visit in Nepal (11:14)  Sonja’s advice for hiking in Nepal (14:13) Responsible tourism practices to know before coming to Nepal (16:31) Sonja’s local trekking organization recommendation (19:23) Rapid fire questions (19:43)   ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━ connect with Sonja! ✨ Travel guides: https://www.thatch.co/@sonjakorevaar ✨ Nepal trekking organization, “Sherpa Heritage Trails”: https://sherpaheritagetrails.com/ https://www.sherpa-trekking.com/ ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━ connect with me! :) Instagram: ✨ @lydiaschultzz https://www.instagram.com/lydiaschultzz/ ✨TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lydiaschultzz Travel Blog: ✨ gottacaseofwanderlust.com ✨ Travel Guides: https://www.thatch.co/@gottacaseofwanderlust

Maia grew up in New Jersey and now lives in Tasmania Australia. Learn about how she did it and her advice for you! on this episode, we talk about: - the logistics of moving abroad - cultural shocks coming from the USA to Australia - how Americans can work in Australia - and more! shownotes: 1. (00:31) You have been living in Australia for 3 years now. But you’re originally from New Jersey and went to school in Rhode Island. Can you tell us how you needed up where you are now? 2. (04:06) Would you say it’s difficult for an American to move to Australia? 3. (06:32) Cultural shocks coming from the U.S. to Australia 4. (09:43) adjusting and making friends 5. (12:44) How are the people like in Australia? 6. (14:29) What's your favorite side of Australia? 7. (16:28) Do you have any advice for people wanting to move to Australia? 8. (18:23) Do you plan on staying in Australia? 9. (20:42) Did you ever picture yourself where you are now? 10. (22:38) Rapid fire questions ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━ connect with Maia! ✨ insta: https://www.instagram.com/onmaiaway?igsh=MTFyd3B1ZTdoN3llbg== ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━ connect with me! :) Instagram: ✨ @lydiaschultzz https://www.instagram.com/lydiaschultzz/ ✨TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lydiaschultzz Travel Blog: ✨ gottacaseofwanderlust.com ✨ Travel Guides: https://www.thatch.co/@gottacaseofwanderlust ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━

reading poetry on a beautiful sunny day in La Rosaleda, Retiro Park 🌹“resist the urge to resist for nothing forever persists.”

“How do I responsibly travel but also how do I responsibly engage with the culture?” - Mark Fedoronko Mark is a professional travel planner with expertise in Northern Africa and the Middle East. on this episode, we chat about: - Mark’s lessons learned with travel and itinerary planning - best resources for researching a destination’s safety before going - how to have more meaningful travel experiences - and much more! ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━ connect with Mark! ✨Thatch Page: https://www.thatch.co/@markfedoronko ✨ website: https://markstravelrecs.wordpress.com/about/ ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━ connect with me! :) Instagram: ✨ @lydiaschultzz https://www.instagram.com/lydiaschultzz/ ✨TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lydiaschultzz Travel Blog: ✨ gottacaseofwanderlust.com ✨ Travel Guides: https://www.thatch.co/@gottacaseofwanderlust

you don’t have to always be “polite”.

Karima was born and raised in Morocco, and has solo traveled throughout the country. Here are her thoughts about living and traveling to this incredible country! we chat about: - best places to visit in Morocco - things you should know before coming - is Morocco safe for a solo female traveler? - and much more! connect with Karima! ✨ Insta: https://www.instagram.com/oufkirkarima7?igsh=NTQ5bDk0aGp6bjVo connect with Juan! ✨ Insta: https://www.instagram.com/juan.arcidiacono?igsh=MXIxbG9qOGdrbjBscg== ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━ connect with me! :) ✨ my Thatch Travel Guides in Morocco: https://www.thatch.co/@gottacaseofwanderlust Instagram: ✨ @lydiaschultzz https://www.instagram.com/lydiaschultzz/ ✨TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lydiaschultzz Travel Blog: ✨ gottacaseofwanderlust.com ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━

genuine first impressions and cultural shocks after moving to Spain 🇪🇸 from the United States 🇺🇸

motivational talk to do something that scares you!

falling in love with life in Madrid 😌 🌹

there is no “arriving” to your dream life; the path is the goal. ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━ EXPLORE MORE HERE :) Instagram: ✨ @gottacaseofwanderlust https://www.instagram.com/gottacaseofwanderlust/ ✨ @lydiaschultzz https://www.instagram.com/lydiaschultzz/ ✨TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lydiaschultzz Travel Blog: ✨ gottacaseofwanderlust.com ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━

what I wish I knew before moving abroad solo for the first time after spending 1-month in Madrid, Spain 🇪🇸 part 1: a letter to myself from myself part 2 (04:21): extended reflections from Sardinia Italy ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━ MY SOCIALS :) Instagram: ✨ @gottacaseofwanderlust https://www.instagram.com/gottacaseofwanderlust/ ✨ @lydiaschultzz https://www.instagram.com/lydiaschultzz/ ✨TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lydiaschultzz Travel Blog: ✨ gottacaseofwanderlust.com ━━━━━━━━ ⟡ ━━━━━━━━

a very overdue new edition of conversations with strangers (aka talking with random people) with the good people of New York City in Washington Square Park :)topic: joy