I am in love with other cultures and small and big adventures. I am curious about people who are very different to me. I can wander for ages over markets and look for spices, unique artisanal products and local fabrics (and chat and bargain with the salesperson especially in the middle East). I love to explore the local cuisine and learn to cook one or another traditional dish. I have a passion for local design and social enterprises and enjoy bringing their ideas and products back home. I love things that stimulate all my senses – rich flavors, music (usually a fusion between modern and traditional beats and instruments), foreign scents, fabrics that are pleasing the skin, and I love colors, patterns and images. I enjoy to capture people, places and moments on camera. I can marvel over appealing, unique or smart design. I take pleasure from train rides and hours spent on airports (seriously but I was also mostly lucky and never had huge flight delays). And so much more.
But the more I travel and experience, the more I fall in love with people and their stories.

When I meet people on the road, they often ask the following questions in more or less this order: Where are you from? What’s your name? And what do you do for a living? (That is usually more important for people in the West)

I was born in one of the most beautiful places in the South of Austria, an area rich of lakes, culture and good food, surrounded by lush nature and by borders – to Italy and the former Balkan. My name is Karin. Over the course of the last years I have been a telecom engineer, marketing and communication professional, film maker and communication designer.

But a question that I love asking people, because it usually triggers a far richer conversation, is: