Probably first experience of traveling abroad, pretty unconscious, but at that age you get all the benefits of foreign country: chocolate bars, tasty drinks, french fries and toys) I learnt confident swimming during those trips, I was 6/7 years old back then.

First time in Turkey ever, city Side. Immersion into era of Turkish resorts into lives of many Russians. A fresh start before secondary school to go and see the Mediterranean. I got my second serious Lego from the duty free store, visited Antalya for the first time and got pretty load of gold. And there was pretty scary rafting which we actually repeated in following years.

Believe it or not, but I was just 11 when my family was already hanging out in French Courchevel winter resort, very few Russian fat cats knew about it, and it wasn't in vogue. I had been really sick before the new year, so my parents decided to celebrate my cureness and treat all of us with fresh mountainous air of the Alps. That was my first and last official skiing school - I was just awesome without it)) French language challenge started there too.

First experience of left-hand driving traffic, Jeep Safari around the island and Cypriot nights&dancing.

We went by Ferry Cruise liner from Limassol to Jerusalem on excursion. I saw all famous holy places and got blessed by getting hit into the stone wall-door - I've been too smart since then.

(as Ukraine at that time) - first visit, went with Grandma, don't remember much - but following journeys history would be significantly phenomenal.

Was my first camp abroad. We were traveling around the northeastern Adriatic sea cost, my first well remembered seaport was Trieste, ancient and beautiful, we visited famous Italian amusement park Gardaland, I saw Verona right after Romeo and Juliet (with Leo DiCaprio) had been released and fell in love with Venice, I was just 12, my life has never been the same from then.

That year was the Pamukkale marvels adventures and big steps with social gender socializing when along with Russians we were competing pool wars with the Germans.

First experience of renting the car abroad, Spanish are quite specific with road signs - they put them after the turn))) Barcelona seemed huge and architectural, and we saw the white gorilla in Barcelona zoo. The huge aquarium has been in my memory for all of this time. And Corrida Bull Fight - I love all animals too much to repeat watching that performance, but culture is culture, and those were my first steps in observational science. And don't forget about big family adventure in Port Aventura amusement park!

Another summer camp abroad on the coast of Balaton lake, with my BF. We did everything side by side. We travelled so much: Tihany abbey - one of the most ancient on Hungarian land, Veszprém is one of the oldest urban areas in Hungary, and a city with county rights. I paddled in Lake Cave Tapolca and watched knights tournament in Sümeg Castle. And of course a detailed tour of Budapest. How old was I? Right - just 14 ;) And very important: there I watched my first foreign movie on the big screen in the cinema! What movie was that?! You'll never guess! American pie in Hungarian!!! :))) And the second one was Erin Brokovich in English, too serious for a 14 year old.

I know it has nothing to do with actual traveling experience in that country (island Creete) but that was the time of trying tequila))) And making Everlasting friendship with my good friend from Novosibirsk (we were keeping in touch by mail for more than a decade). We were in summer camp for 3 weeks - and everything was totally about socializing and competing in teams, of course my team always won

Is the most significant moment in my English career - that time was crucial overcome of language barrier. I am so grateful to all Portuguese guys sitting around the table with me talking about "blue dreams". It was also the first meeting with the Atlantic ocean. I wish I remembered more of Lisbon 'cause this city contains lots of adventurous treasures.

Another camp, another three weeks of crazy youngsters' time. Meaningful natural events: welcomed in my balcony a tarantula, a scorpion and a praying mantis. Meaningful cultural events: went to holy mountain of Afon. Still don't know what influenced me more

Marmaris opened a Bar Street for us and living the night life timetable including just moonlight bathing and moontan. We enjoyed it so much that came back to the same place the next year.

Kiev - school trip as part of History lessons. Our active history teacher gathered us to visit and see with our own eyes where the routes of Russia were, where the history was born. It was the experience that I further used in my final History of World Art exam, showing practical knowledge in Architecture of Kievan Rus.

Who knew it's not only for summer! Not many people know but thidscountry also has a ski resort Dedeman Palandoken in the north of city Erzurum. I made more life lasting friends. And we spend nice eating & drinking time in all inclusive on the slopes

My best friend moved abroad, got married and invited me to visit her. That was my trip to St.Gallen and a sightseeing tour around the country. We went to that point in the hills where you can observe six different countries at the

One of the brightest memories of touring to movie making sets locations, while we were traveling in the Sahara Desert on camels, staying overnight in the Oasis, we visited real Tataouine of Star Wars and El Jem Coliseum filmed in the Gladiator. I still keep a jar with Sahara send, it's fluid like the water of big ocean. We lived between Sousse and Monastir - one night it was the most memorable thunderstorm in my entire life.

On the third course of University I took part in Erasmus programme - means students exchange. Together with my groupmates we studied in city Pécs, which has the university size of the whole city itself.

What an amazing Dukedom in the middle of the Pyrenees between Spain and France! A country that has 64.000 citizens and is a tax free zone, so literally it's a big duty free shop! Just imagine how was my wardrobe filled those years with cheap but util clothes. And one more important friend appeared in my life that year - a gifted and hard-working talented doctor, I was witnessing him getting his Ph.D in neurology and still paying him visits got advice. Andorra ski resorts are awesome! One of the best that I've tried.

And the era of Spanish life began, I spent one month each year in Benalmádena school, near Málaga city, motherland of Antonio Banderas And Pablo Picasso, studying and practicing Spanish language and flamenco as much as I could.
Going on open classes to Alhambra in Granada, Mezquita in Cordova and routes of Corrida in Ronda.

I called it "by the footsteps of Roman Empire", first European bus trip through Belorussia and Poland, to Vienna and Rome, Napoli and Florence. Vienna is really inspiring city with amazing architectural style, palaces, music and gigantic museums. That bus ride taught me to prize simple pleasures like sleeping horizontally in the bed for several hours and taste chestnuts in Piazza Navona. That journey showed my girlfriends the power of knowing the language in communication - and that year was the beginning of my teaching career, they asked me to have some classes with them, and we did. I can't stop ever since.

I called it "by the footsteps of Roman Empire", first European bus trip through Belorussia and Poland, to Vienna and Rome, Napoli and Florence. Vienna is really inspiring city with amazing architectural style, palaces, music and gigantic museums. That bus ride taught me to prize simple pleasures like sleeping horizontally in the bed for several hours and taste chestnuts in Piazza Navona. That journey showed my girlfriends the power of knowing the language in communication - and that year was the beginning of my teaching career, they asked me to have some classes with them, and we did. I can't stop ever since.

I called it "by the footsteps of Roman Empire", first European bus trip through Belorussia and Poland, to Vienna and Rome, Napoli and Florence. Vienna is really inspiring city with amazing architectural style, palaces, music and gigantic museums. That bus ride taught me to prize simple pleasures like sleeping horizontally in the bed for several hours and taste chestnuts in Piazza Navona. That journey showed my girlfriends the power of knowing the language in communication - and that year was the beginning of my teaching career, they asked me to have some classes with them, and we did. I can't stop ever since.

I called it "by the footsteps of Roman Empire", first European bus trip through Belorussia and Poland, to Vienna and Rome, Napoli and Florence. Vienna is really inspiring city with amazing architectural style, palaces, music and gigantic museums. That bus ride taught me to prize simple pleasures like sleeping horizontally in the bed for several hours and taste chestnuts in Piazza Navona. That journey showed my girlfriends the power of knowing the language in communication - and that year was the beginning of my teaching career, they asked me to have some classes with them, and we did. I can't stop ever since.

I called it "by the footsteps of Roman Empire", first European bus trip through Belorussia and Poland, to Vienna and Rome, Napoli and Florence. Vienna is really inspiring city with amazing architectural style, palaces, music and gigantic museums. That bus ride taught me to prize simple pleasures like sleeping horizontally in the bed for several hours and taste chestnuts in Piazza Navona. That journey showed my girlfriends the power of knowing the language in communication - and that year was the beginning of my teaching career, they asked me to have some classes with them, and we did. I can't stop ever since.

Visited my best friend again and saw real European Christmas time - how much it's more of family time winter holiday rather than having crazy parties. We snowboarded in the mountains and tasted home-made strudel.

Odessa to spent the Victory day in Odessa was quite meaningful. As far as all you may know the city of Odessa is quite popular in our folklore and jokes, so it was quite a challenge to go and finally see it in person. Its

London studying programme in Greenwich; as I had been teaching for a while then in studying I was asking lots of theoretical questions, but got bored really quickly, so instead of my classes I went to the cinema right across the street - that's what we call total immersion)) It was absolutely unbelievable to finally see all those objects we had been studying throughout the school years. I became a double decker fan real fast and was absolutely satisfied with being understood on every corner of an English speaking country.

Belarus - the country of perfect highways. It was my first experience of road trip, when the journey begins from your house entrance. Driving 3000km with girls - that's when our traditional hen parties started. And a self-made ladies tradition was born. Visited 7 cities and 15 museums within 10 days - crazy educational geeks!

Magnificent Oriental holiday. Samarkand is a fairy tale from the East. When you come there alone it whispers you all its secrets with the constant ancient wind of the great silk way. This city is an outstanding example of how friendly local people can be. And lives are linked through the ages

A great first step across the ocean and first long-distance flight and first stopover. And living abroad experience in long-term conditions. Studying in the University of Havana and socialising, immersing deeply into the culture, history and traditions of the Island of Freedom. How is it even possible to live in this modern world without any foreign language?!

why not to start working as a freelancer from Thailand? Teaching English via Skype, through stable internet connection and different time zone; meanwhile swimming in the sea and working from the beach cafe. Downshifting as it is!

14 hours flights are just fun, so I kept going far away to other continents. Knowing Spanish gave some many bright opportunities, and life in Buenos Aires proved it right. Getting to deserted corners of the big country, reaching the End of the World and pingüinos - foreign language is what we all need to get there!

That was a break from severe Argentinian autumn of heavy rains and dump mood, so my friend and I decided to give a go to the neighborhood Brazil. No way we went to a boring resort, not a chance - Recife. It's totally Brazilian city in the middle of Brazil coast full of Brazilians, that's where we got shocked by not being able to express ourselves knowing several foreign languages. Coconuts - they will keep&safe us all.

If your beloved aunt has an apartment in the nice neighborhood near the mountains in Antalya - just go and visit her for a couple of weeks, because living there quietly, going to Bazar every Tuesday (and only Tuesday), sunbathing with only women on women's beach (Kadunlar plaj) and going to Cappadocia might be really restful and... educational, of course.

A dream journey to exotic treasures of African north and the Sahara. One of the many travels where I didn't have to think anything about the route and the details. I was surrounded by highly qualified men from @enjoy_drive, and felt blessed to be with them through the Atlas mountains chain, through Sahara desert, from Maracesh to the Atlantic ocean back in Agadir. That's where I met Mr. Ives Saint Lauren and meaningful girlfriends, and my life has never been the same any more.

Bali "Some lives are linked across time connected by the ancient calling that echoes through the ages" (Prince of Persia) - it was first trip in my life that was planned and decided in a day :) And it wasn't just any other holiday trip, it was my first spiritual one. With conscious people willing to change their lives and be better, praying in the places of forces and connecting with limitless Universe.
"Destiny".

(Russia) - a week spent without meat in meditation with girls. Enjoying most beautiful nature, cliffs, hills and mountains, fighting own fears and stereotypes. Mmmmmmm a dreamy vacation.

Yachting & sailing
Life to live Life to learn. Never stop exploring your new impressions on the old things or phenomenon, indeed. That was my 7th time in Turkey, but this country had never seemed more unsual or ordinary. Having your own boat gives you almost endless freedom to be wherever you want, and be surrounded by nothing but most beautiful nature. And food! I am in love with Urfa Kebab