Welcome to our corner of the internet!
Both from New Zealand, we packed our suitcases in 2015 bound for Switzerland for a work secondment, and have been on the move ever since. We’ve lived in Zurich, London, and now based in Dubai, with lots of travel in between!
After our friends and family started asking for our travel itineraries from our travels, we decided to start this blog to share all of our travel tips and recommendations, in the form of travel guides and a blog!
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While living and working in Zurich for two years, we travelled the equivalent of nearly five months across 20 different countries, from weekend trips to month-long summer vacations. As this was the first time we had really travelled together, it didn’t take us long to get to know our travel style.
We had both travelled to our share of major European cities and after we decided to start exploring more local areas we soon realised that firstly, we hate crowds! Switzerland tends to turn you into a super, time-efficient person so we did tend to become a bit impatient whenever we found ourselves in the middle of crowded spots. Secondly, we hate taking that “typical tourist route”. While they are tourist spots for a reason, we feel that these days too many spectacular sights have been ruined by tour groups, and that’s when we realised we want to find those off the beaten track places where you can still experience local life or the “true route”.
We also somehow came up with nicknames for each other being “true” and “truest” so in a way our name reflects the route that we like to take. If you follow our adventures then you’ll see that while we still try to get to those “must-see” places, we usually make sure that the way we travel is off-course, or that we add in some local, lesser-known spots along the way.
Before you start reading our travel guides you should get to know our travel style. Everyone has their own style of travelling and no one way of travelling is “right”, it’s just what works for you. It can take a few trips, a few mishaps and frustrations to figure out what your style is, but once you do then you know exactly what you can get out of these travel blogs.
So, our travel style…
Food!
Our love of travel is also combined with our love for food, and experiencing the local food culture is one of the main reasons we travel. We try to find spots where locals like to dine, especially home-cooked meals using local ingredients.
Relaxation!
We don’t travel to sightsee all day long. So don’t expect to find hour by hour itineraries on our blog. There is a big difference between travels and holidays, and we prefer somewhere in between. We like a balance of exploring and relaxing – you won’t find us arriving somewhere with a giant list to tick off and is up at the crack of dawn to run around and see everything, so we tend to spend longer in places than others normally would.