to you, I am
a traveller
to-you-i.am/a-traveller
While I was lucky enough to participate in some trips around Russia and abroad during my teenagehood, the active travelling phase started with my exchange programme in Finland in autumn 2019, and since then I have been around a few countries mostly in Europe. If not for the expensive, long, unpredictable and bureaucratic visas, I would've liked to travel even more. But c'est la vie!
I like trying local foods, learning about people's history, culture, customs and funny stories. Nature is an important bit, as well. Travelling brings new impressions, understanding how diverse the world and people are, and just having fun walking around without the map, too! However, to be honest, I often use digital maps in the background, tracking the steps and the routes for memories
Useful travel apps, planners, and trackers
✈️ Planes
- departure airport websites for guidance, terminal and check-in desks numbers, security and passport control live waiting times, boarding gates (example: CDG)
- arrival airport websites for luggage carousel announcements, terminal info, connecting transport (example: EDI)
- flightradar24 for recording my plane journeys on myFlightradar24, flight delays history, assigned aircraft to see where it is before the flight, live tracking, and checking airport disruptions (example: LHR)
- airline websites for flight status and delay instructions (examples: easyJet, Ryanair)
🚅 Trains
- advice and info: seat61 for train travel in Europe and the UK
- maps: projectmapping for the UK rail network schemas and train operator coverage
- planning: trainline for the UK train journey planning and live updates (almost all the UK operators use the trainline API behind their apps, but without booking fees)
- live tracking: realtimetrains for very detailed info about the UK trains, coaches, routes and live times
- trip logs: viaduct for recording my train journeys and visualising them on a map
👣 Routes
- Adidas Running app (former Runtastic)
- Google My Maps to create route and place recommendations for a city
Countries and places I've been to
🇦🇲 Armenia
🇧🇾 Belarus
🇧🇪 Belgium
🇧🇬 Bulgaria
🇨🇳 China
🇩🇰 Denmark
🇪🇪 Estonia
🇫🇮 Finland
- Fazer Experience Visitor Centre (Vantaa) — 2019
- Helsinki — 2019
- Kilpisjärvi — 2019
- Nuuksio National Park (Espoo) — 2019
- Porvoo — 2019
- Rovaniemi — 2019
🇫🇷 France
I have a goal and wish to visit all departments in France
- Gordes — 2023
- Le Cateau-Cambrésis — 2024
- Lille — 2023, 2024, 2024-2025, 2025, 2025-2026
- Marseille — 2023
- Nîmes — 2023
- Paris — 2023, 2025-2026
- Roubaix — 2024
- Versailles — 2025
🇮🇹 Italy
- Florence — 2023
- Rome — 2023
🇲🇪 Montenegro
🇳🇱 Netherlands
🇳🇴 Norway
- Oslo — 2019
- Tromsø — 2019
🇵🇹 Portugal
- Faro — 2024
- Lisbon — 2024
🇷🇺 Russia
- Kaliningrad — ...
- Moscow — 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024, 2025
- Novosibirsk — ...
- St Petersburg — ..., 2019, ...
- ... — ...
🇸🇪 Sweden
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
I have a goal and wish to visit all cities in the UK
- Aberdeen — 2022, 2024
- Arbroath — 2022
- Bolton Abbey — 2020, ...
- Bradford — 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026
- Broughty Ferry — 2023, 2024
- Cranfield — 2024
- Dundee — 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026
- Edinburgh — 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026
- Halifax — 2021
- Harrogate — ..., 2021, ...
- Hebden Bridge — 2020, 2021
- Glamis Castle — 2025
- Glasgow — 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
- Inverness — 2025
- Leeds — ..., 2023, ...
- Liverpool — 2021
- Loch Ness and Urquhart Castle — 2025
- London — 2020, 2021
- Manchester — ..., 2026
- Milton Keynes — 2024
- Perth — ..., 2024, 2026
- Saltaire — ...
- Scone Palace — 2024
- Skipton — 2020, ...
- St Andrews — 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026
- Stirling — 2022, 2023, ...
- Tentsmuir — 2024
- York — 2020, 2023, 2024, 2026
- ... — ...
🇻🇦 Vatican City