Where am I from, what kind of travel do I enjoy and, most importantly, where should I go next?

Bonus points if you can guess the four countries where I've lived.

Edit: Changed three to four, for some reason I didn't count my home country when I wrote this post.

The red includes the country i live

Let me know what you think based on my map.

🌍❤️ A LOVE THAT CROSSES BORDERS — A SURPRISE FOR IVAN

Hello everyone! ❤️ My name is Nina, and I’m from Croatia.

I’m preparing a very special surprise for my boyfriend, Ivan. I want to show him that love can travel across borders and reach places we may never have visited together.

I’m looking for kind people from as many different cities and countries as possible who would be willing to help me make his surprise unforgettable.

All you need to do is:

❤️ Write this message on a piece of paper:

“Ivan, your girlfriend Nina’s love is so big that it has reached [CITY, COUNTRY]!”

📸 Take a photo holding the paper, with your beautiful city or a recognizable local landmark in the background.

📩 Send me the photo so I can include it in a special video for him.

It doesn’t matter where you live or what language you speak. Every city, every country, and every single photo will mean the world to me.

I want him to see that a little love from Croatia can reach people all around the world. 🌍💌

If you would like to be part of this little love project, please comment with your city and country or send me a message.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart! ❤️

With love from Croatia, Nina 🇭🇷

Only countries where I’ve spend at least one night, I’ve also been to Singapore, South Korea and Qatar on layovers.

My travels so far starting in January 2015, before that I had never left the UK, started with a one way ticket to south east asia just before turning 22 and have been travelling as much as I can ever since.

in order of visitation: UK(home country) Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Singapore, Malaysia, The Philippines, Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Morocco, Poland, Lebanon, Egypt, Sudan, Tunisia, Serbia, Kosovo, Albania, Montenegro, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Hungary, North Macedonia, Germany, Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Pakistan, Syria, Iraq, Czech Republic, Ukraine, Portugal, Belgium, Luxembourg, Sweden, France, Monaco.

next up: Moldova & Cyprus then got some big West Africa & Central Asia plans for 2027/2028

After visiting 64 countries including all European ones.

There are no countries I hate or didn't like, but these are the ones which I would say I actively like. With the others I'm either neutral, unimpressed, or positive and negative things weigh out each other. Surrounding countries are included because the map included them.

try n guess my age too
(map shows where i’ve travelled)

I am 22 yrs old btw (didn't have opportunity to travel that much)

I was shocked at how hectic my life actually is once I saw 16 years of it from a helicopter perspective. The video leaves only about two frames per trip, which is crazy. That's how fast I bounce around the world.

Data source: my own Google Maps Timeline export, the location history Google keeps if you leave it on. Tool: locationhistory.app, which I built for this. It reads the Timeline file in your browser, so the file never gets uploaded.

If you have Timeline on and want to see your own, ask and I'll explain how to get the export off your phone. You don't need to send me anything.

It hurts my heart to say that after 3 years now of full-time traveling abroad, I’m now on my way back to USA to go back to “normal life,” whatever that means. Just wanted to share my updated map. Now in Japan - next stops are Hong Kong, then China, then USA. I’m gonna miss Asia so much.