Beginnings behind the Eastern Bloc Our parents have worked in the tourism industry since the 1980’s. They organized trips around the Eastern Bloc in the state-owned travel agency. During the 1990’s, we hosted many foreign couples in our household as part of the...
The most impactful moment of my tour guide path was… one of the first tours I conducted as a certified guide to the Mauthausen concentration camp. The group was quite small and it soon turned out that one of the participants was a Holocaust survivor. It was a...
At the age of nine I won a school competition with my write-up about a very prominent site in our village, Ghar Dalam Cave & Museum (first settlers on our islands settled in this cave in c. 5900 B.C.) and I had to present the script myself on the National Radio...
I grew up in Chile in the 1980´s, at that time the world was analog and there was little cultural exchange compared to what we have today. But I went to an international school, so I grew up playing with friends from so many different countries, that I have always...
When I need to answer the question “why I became a tour guide”, I always choose the most straightforward answer; I love Helsinki, the beautiful city that I live in. I believe that you cannot be a successful tour guide if you don’t have passion for your locality. I...
‘We can’t see the cousins this year ’ – my father told me in 1991. when I was just getting excited by the end of the school year to spend another fantastic summer in Rovinj (Croatia) with my family. I saw my cousins again in 2005. in Vienna. ‘You know, we don´t...
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