{"id":106,"date":"2014-01-22T19:09:32","date_gmt":"2014-01-22T18:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.surfingtheplanet.com\/en\/?page_id=106"},"modified":"2015-12-11T12:13:18","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T11:13:18","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.surfingtheplanet.com\/en\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We are addicted to travelling and some people might say we are a little bit crazy. What we like the most in this life is putting our backpacks on, and travelling around to explore any corner of this world. We believe that every little corner on Earth is worth visiting, there are no places without some kind of a special charm.<br \/>\nWhen we travel, we try to experience all the places as we were one of the local. We try to absorb as much as possible from the local culture, traditions and cuisine. When we have the chance, we try to spend some time living with local people. During our travels we have seen many beautiful landscapes, exciting cities, but what we enjoy the most is discovering these authentic places, where there might not be anything special, but you feel special there.<br \/>\nOur blog was born in 2012 for the occasion of our round the world trip, a dream come true. Through Surfing the Planet, apart from transmitting our passion for travelling and discovering new worlds, we also would like to help fellow travelers to choose their travel destinations and prepare their trips. We give our personal point of view on what we think is worth seeing and doing in a particular place. We also provide information and advice on more practical matters, such as where to eat or sleep and how to get from one place to another. We always share both the nice and difficult moments of our personal experience with the readers, telling anecdotes, sometimes funny stories.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The team of Surfing the Planet<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Rachele Cervaro<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-109 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.surfingtheplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2014\/01\/About-Us_Rachele.jpg?strip=all\" alt=\"About Us_Rachele\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.surfingtheplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/About-Us_Rachele.jpg?strip=all 300w, https:\/\/cdn.surfingtheplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/About-Us_Rachele.jpg?strip=all&amp;w=60 60w, https:\/\/cdn.surfingtheplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/About-Us_Rachele.jpg?strip=all&amp;w=120 120w, https:\/\/cdn.surfingtheplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/About-Us_Rachele.jpg?strip=all&amp;w=180 180w, https:\/\/cdn.surfingtheplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/About-Us_Rachele.jpg?strip=all&amp;w=240 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>I was born in the beautiful city of <strong>Venice<\/strong>, but I grew up in a small town nearby in the North of Italy. I have lived in three different countries, I have travelled in more than 30 and somehow I always end up living in <strong>Barcelona<\/strong>. I love eating and searching for new challenges.<br \/>\nSince my early childhood I have enjoyed travelling, first with my family up and down the \u201cboot\u201d and around the countries of the former Yugoslavia. I grew up with the dream of living in London, and I accomplished it in 2003. In 2000 I went on my<strong> first camping holidays alone<\/strong> to a touristic place in Italy.<br \/>\nWhen I graduated, I really felt like moving abroad, and in the end due to a series of coincidences I ended up in Barcelona where I discovered a completely new world and that travelling alone is not something crazy as many people wanted me to believe before. In Barcelona I met G\u00e1bor, my partner in both life and travelling.<br \/>\nIn 2010, I wanted to live a really strong travelling experience, so I went to<strong> India<\/strong> alone to travel around <strong>Rajasthan<\/strong>. Since then, I haven\u2019t stopped travelling either alone or accompanied. After finishing my Masters in Global Marketing at an English university; with G\u00e1bor we decided to carry out together the dream of our life: do a<strong> trip around the world<\/strong>. We left everything in Barcelona and departed for this epic adventure which lasted<strong> 17 months<\/strong>. We traveled around 3 continents including <strong>South America, Oceania<\/strong> and<strong> South East Asia<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>G\u00e1bor Kov\u00e1cs<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-108\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.surfingtheplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2014\/01\/About-Us_Gabor.jpg?strip=all\" alt=\"About Us_Gabor\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.surfingtheplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/About-Us_Gabor.jpg?strip=all 300w, https:\/\/cdn.surfingtheplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/About-Us_Gabor.jpg?strip=all&amp;w=60 60w, https:\/\/cdn.surfingtheplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/About-Us_Gabor.jpg?strip=all&amp;w=120 120w, https:\/\/cdn.surfingtheplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/About-Us_Gabor.jpg?strip=all&amp;w=180 180w, https:\/\/cdn.surfingtheplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/About-Us_Gabor.jpg?strip=all&amp;w=240 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>I am from a <strong>Hungary,<\/strong> a small country in Central Europe. \u00a0Since I was little, I have always been attracted by things far from my country, distant from my own world. I soon started to dream about living in foreign countries and travelling to many places. \u00a0I chose my vocation (I am a researcher) according to these objectives, as this is a profession which permits quite a lot of travelling. \u00a0I can say that I have fulfilled a part of my goals, as I have <strong>travelled in more than 40 countries<\/strong> and I have been <strong>living abroad for many years<\/strong> now. Nevertheless, there is still a lot that I would like to see and do, I would like to explore many other places.<br \/>\nAfter living in <strong>Switzerland<\/strong> for some time, I moved to <strong>Barcelona<\/strong> almost a decade ago. Living abroad allowed me to get to know many amazing people and places, and it made me possible learning several different foreign languages. In Barcelona, as I have always been <strong>surrounded by<\/strong> such a <strong>variety of people<\/strong> (both locals and foreigners from all over the world), I could acquire the taste of many different cultures and customs, and I can say that by many of these once foreign habits are now mine too. While living in Barcelona, I travelled a lot around Europe both for pleasure and through work. When I travel, I can dedicate a lot of time to another passion of mine, which is <strong>photography<\/strong>.<br \/>\nIn Barcelona I met Rachele, my partner, who shares with me this traveler syndrome and constant curiosity for exploring new worlds. After <strong>dreaming about it, deciding it <\/strong>and<strong> planning it<\/strong> together, we left in 2012 for travelling around the world. During almost a year and a half we<strong> travelled in 17 countries<\/strong> around <strong>South America, Oceania <\/strong>and<strong> South East Asia<\/strong>. The feeling of freedom given by travelling seized us forever. We are back to Barcelona again, but we can\u2019t stop thinking about new adventures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are addicted to travelling and some people might say we are a little bit crazy. What we like the most in this life is putting our backpacks on, and travelling around to explore any corner of this world. 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