Happy New Year to one and all! From the trourist team to you, we hope that you’ve enjoyed some super-fun holidays with your buds and loved ones and have kicked off 2010 with the biggest of smiles.
We don’t know if you’ve been fortunate enough to hit the road during this Xmas period. At trourist, we’ve pretty much stayed at home here in San Sebastián, but managed to travel far and wide through the diverse, cool experiences many of you shared with us in our first real experience contest.
It’s been a fulfilling and fun trip. Maria Agirre turned us on to a very special bar in Berlin. Bryan brought us to one of the most important summits in the Orizaba region of Mexico. Ibon Sotil shared with us a strange ritual practiced along the Ganges river bank. Sabine Gabrielle had us sleeping by a waterfall in Thailand. Carmen Andres showed us the real-feel of an Irish brewery. Isabel Fernandez introduced us to a quite charming eatery in Tangiers. David Domingo invited us to catch forty winks by the sea in Stockholm. Lastly, Sandra infused us with the magical splendor one can breathe in Buenos Aires’ most emblematic library.
However, the experience that earned the highest number of points from the jury was the one submitted by Mariel Perez:
Congrats, Mariel! Enjoy to the max 100€ from HostelWorld and Ryanair that we’re passing on to you. We hope you’ll jot down all those real and special experiences you encounter in your Moleskine and share them with us when you get back from your trip.
Voting results can be checked out in this GoogleDocs document.
Hey! We wanna give away a goodies-filled travel pack this Christmas!!!
This is our first Christmas together, so it’s only natural that we at trourist want to celebrate the holidays with you. In the spirit of Yuletide giving, some lucky person out there is going to win a travel-pack complete with a Moleskine agenda containing vouchers from HostelWorld and Ryanair worth 100 euros each, usable on your very next get-away.
To have a chance at winning this cool holiday gift, all you have to do is write a first-person account of your best trourist experience. The fortunate winner will be chosen from all the experiences submitted. Submission of experiences begins today and has a cut-off deadline date of midnight (24:00) Christmas Eve, 2009.
One word of advice, travellers: forget any notion of sharing stories about typical tourist traps. We want trourist
experiences, genuine experiences lived by you during your recent travels or accounts of radical things to do right in your own backyard, places that mere tourists could ever find on their own.
The contest winner will be chosen by the following passionate travellers:
Trourist is the meeting point for everybody who don’t remain indifferent when traveling, for those who come back home with even more questions than answers in their minds. That’s why we think it would be very enriching to share these thoughts, emotions and experiences. By doing so, we would have the chance to know better other people’s feelings.
For that reason, we propose the following twitter trend #trouristmusings. Our aim is to turn #trouristmusings into the speaker of all of us who travel to connect to the world. To do so, there is no need of famous quotes and the language used won’t matter either. For us what really matters is the feelings.
All of you who are not Twitter users will be more than welcome to share your thoughts in our Facebook’s fan page and at this blog.
ExperienceLess is a movement that was born to live, not to die.
You, with your ideas, suggestions, comments, photos and videos, can keep it alive – even make it immortal. Together we can transform it into a meeting point for those of us who travel to live destinations, not visit them.
by Imanol Abad
"Hola Marina! Muy bueno el blog....y gracias por tus palabras de ánimo. Trourist es un proyecto"