Hey! We're Diana and Stefan.
Travel is many things and besides all it always challenges your vision of “normality”.
Where we come from
We're a couple based in Europe, mostly living abroad. In the last 11 years we have stepped on all 7 continents and visited 53 UN-recognized countries.
We were born and raised in Romania, a country where traveling abroad is not common. Our first city break was in 2016, at 26. We were astounded by the experience and we only regret not starting earlier. The full record is on our travel timeline.
For most of our friends, we live a nomadic life. We don't see it that way. We haven't sold our home and we get homesick. Our longest single stretch on the road was three months, cut short by COVID-19 in 2020 before we hit the planned five.
“If more people were to travel, the world would be a better place.”Our working theory
What travel is for us
Travel is not about landscapes and tourist attractions. It is about the experiences you live and the memories you keep. The most useful one is cultural shock - the moment nothing around you is normal and you lose every reference point you had.
Travel shapes who you are. It makes you more resilient and more open-minded. We judge other people through our narrow lens, only to discover that what is normal to us is utterly weird elsewhere, and the other way around.
Travel is one of the best forms of education at any age. It teaches you to judge less, listen more, and open your mind to perspectives that are not in your sight.
Through our stories and journeys we hope to encourage other people to travel and explore the world.
How we make Travelfoss
Six principles. No exceptions.
No sponsored articles, ever. If we recommend a place, we paid for it.
Affiliate links only on travel-resources, only for gear and services we already use.
Every image is one of ours. 132,589 shot, none generated, none from a stock library.
No filters, no retouching, no photoshop. What you see is what we saw.
Aerial shots flatter places that don't deserve it. We shoot from where you can stand.
Every story is written by us, in our voice. Been there, done that.
Most travel writing on the internet is sponsored, openly or otherwise, and you usually can't tell. We've fallen for it ourselves and arrived at overrated destinations with nothing to see.
Travelfoss carries affiliate links to companies we already buy from, and a small number of display ads. That is the entire revenue model. No sponsored articles. No paid placement. No deals we don't disclose. If we ever can't keep that promise, we'll shut the site down before we break it.
The full list of partners lives on the travel-resources page. If something here saved you time, you can also buy us a coffee.
