What is the author's travels and why they are worth a try

Travel - not just a way to relax, but also a form of self. The brighter and uniqueness of this experience, the broader your outlook on life. Find adventure that matches your interests, different from the usual tour and does not require much effort on the organization can be in the author's tour.

We talked to a fashion designer, photographer and professional traveler Katherine Bodrunova that is the author's journey and that makes the trip perfect, and even asked her to give some advice to those who will decide on their own to visit an unfamiliar city or country.

What is special about copyright travel?

Most people who organize the author's journey, not once visited the proposed sites, either born there or still live there. Therefore, they are not afraid to trust.

It is difficult to blindly rely on a guide or information on the Internet - sometimes lauded town there is "no spice", and the one who has devoted two words for show - charming. It is unlikely that someone will write about a cozy square in the medieval church or sagging of the cafe under a weeping willow by the river, and this is what is remembered a lot more running around museums. Of travel we bring memories of the atmosphere of the city, or special places. Copyright tours created by people who are in love with what they say, and are eager to share this love.

Be smart route - it's like to make a suit to order, is nowhere to pull or sag. Everything needs to be on time, but not in a hurry. Otherwise there is no buzz in the travel, if you do not give yourself time to enjoy the view of Notre Dame Cathedral in bloom cherry trees, eating fresh raspberries. Or on the way to another ancient temple in Cambodia is not taxied on the tuk-tuk to the village, which specializes in blue crabs, or in a place where the evening, lying in the bow wooden boat, you can admire the stars, and in the mangroves along the banks - by millions of fireflies ! Often massive tours organizers did not pay much attention to the aesthetic component of residence, limited the phrase "double occupancy in hotels is not below the level of 3 stars."

I pay great attention to every place in which to stop my group. Hotels with a local flavor, cozy apartment in the city center, hotels in historic buildings with spectacular views and distinctive interiors - this is what is paramount, which creates an atmosphere. Here we fully rest at the end of an eventful and exciting day, but it is no less important than the choice of restaurant or the best route. For example, in Belgium and France, we live in a very authentic houses with gardens and terraces, in France even has its own lake!

Important for me as much as possible to help travelers feel the atmosphere of the city: squares, churches, streets, gatherings with local on the veranda restaurant on the background of something from the List of the UNESCO Heritage, street food, shops, proven promenades, urban legends - everything has to be colorful and comfortable movement. The trip there is nothing "unimportant", every detail plays a role and sets the mood.

How you got the idea to organize tours author?

I dream of traveling always - girls dream wedding dress and the princes with their horses, and I explore a new city. Even in disaccustomed MATGR (Moscow Academy of tourism, hotel and restaurant business - Ed.). And for some time he worked in the airline. Love for cartography, languages ​​(on my account five of them), photos - all these hobbies combined a passion for travel, which I now want to share.

Where do you have to organize tours and what areas are planning to open?

To date, I have developed three custom travel itinerary: for Belgium and the Netherlands; Poland and the Loire Valley. We adhere to the philosophy of the team "High end + low key" - high quality in a friendly and comfortable way of communication. Our travels - a small company of adults with common interests and a taste for life (as a rule, we recruit groups of 4-6 people), non-standard locations, fascinating dialogue, delicious local food, professional visualization. I'm an experienced photographer, so that our guests receive a free photo book with atmospheric photographs from the trip.

In other plans in Armenia harvest, wine against the backdrop of Mount Ararat, ancient, delicious food in a non-touristic places and jazz - Armenian jazz - it is something special. Even Austria and Southern Germany: Alpine slopes, villages, alpine meadows, castles. As well as Slovenia, Romania, Macedonia: Mysterious overgrown with stereotypes and fears, but beautiful country. Everywhere it will be respected my philosophy of balance cultural enrichment hedonistic notes of relaxation and gluttony. Why else leave, if not drink a glass of champagne for breakfast in the lush garden and do not allow yourself to take in a medieval castle? Or mineral sources of aesthetic pleasure after the city?

The longest we remember not the date that the guide droned on in the castle, and the magical feel of the sunlight falling through the stained glass windows on the porcelain set, dark wood table and silk wallpaper with birds and intricate flowers. Or the taste of his first oyster. Or most unusual ice cream - you can even run their own rating. For example, for me now the most delicious that served in Pisa Il Gelato Di Toto. This is after I tried the "most delicious ice cream" in Paris, Milan, Florence and other places - in small private cafes, where you want to cry with joy: so delicious.

Ask me, serving the most delicious and juicy Moules frites (potatoes traditional double roasting, including, and in beef fat), and I say, in the very place where I will take you to Antwerp during the tour "Belgium and the Netherlands for the sophisticated ". Ask most refined interior and the garden in which the castle in Poland? And I answer: he was not alone, and all the same-thing we see in the big "" Journey in Poland " in the company of the Pole! And what I will answer the question of the castles of the Loire and its wines? The best white of Vouvray - while traveling "Loire Castles", we will not only admire the castles, parks and pretty medieval towns, but also taste wine directly in the cellar!

That is why else should trust professional traveler: they know not only what, when and where, and can also share a positive attitude to life, a taste for life - the art of living!

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Who should choose the author's journey?

Those who are fed up with packet tours with numerous tourist guides and indifferent, but looking to save time and hassle in organizing independent travel. Those who want to get a new, non-touristic experience and at the same time does not want to suffer in the way because of the language barrier - our guides speak all languages, which will be useful on the trip. And people enough planning at work and in life, who wish to entrust the organization of rest experienced travelers and have fun.

Is there any advice you can give independent travelers?

If you do not plan for a week to disable the brain and gadgets to full emotional recovery and "doing nothing" somewhere in the tropics, as well as the wish to be impressed and recharge, the trip should have the character, balance and variety. And for this it is necessary to study the country or city, in which are going to - to find a special, characteristic housing, rather than a standard hotel. Create a rough list of points of interest, if it does not clearly plan, for example, because of the transport. Learn the schedule of all the churches, museums and other important places for you to not be at the closed door. Although this, too, it is interesting.

Another point, which is important in independent travel - do not blame themselves for the mistake, and be able to re-orient or just relax on some cute area or veranda with a glass of something refreshing (or warming - long live the Christmas Markets in Europe!). I recommend not to carry a ton of cash, and remove as needed (in my opinion, they even Bedouins can calculate you from the card). Do not rely on the phone completely - printing the address of the hotel and a paper map of the city weigh nothing, but if the phone runs out after two thousand photos horn ice cream on a background of the Colosseum, and you do not remember in which direction to move forward, get run over. Required Try local specialties! Believe me, this is the main topic of conversation and laughter during and after the trip, vivid memories and experiences.

Be open and welcoming, communicate with local and go on dates. Do not be afraid, but take care of yourself!

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