East meets West. Introduction

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Nataly>> I am Nataly Veremeeva, a soul, craving for adventures and full life. I come from Ukraine and though I work in software, coordinating projects in IT Outsourcing industry, I am dreaming about travelling and I perceive my whole life as one big multilevel quest game with some RPG intrusions. I went East and West. My eastern destination was India, where I spent time of my life going around Himalayan mountains. My western destination was Holland, where I went totally alone to find my lifetime partner, Marco, in a train somewhere between the Hague and Amsterdam. Love at first sight in a train between representatives of 2 different cultures, united by the road – this feels like the symbol of our whole relationship.

Marco>> And my name is Marco, a free spirit that already has been travelling and living in different corners of the world. This got me through many challenges that life has thrown at me. These challenges made me into the person that I am today, with an inquisitive, curious and adventurous mind.  My main passions in life are longboarding, good food, barefoot running, teaching, juggling, movies, and last but definitely not least, my love for my Natasha. That is why I am extremely happy that we set out to go on this great adventure. We both have huge love for new experiences and I know that no matter what it will be the time of learning and enjoying everything that will come on our path.

Nataly>> So we have decided to start our mutual blog, in which we are going to post our impressions about the exciting events that we always encounter wherever we go. In this blog East meets West. We have very different cultural background, education, and even cartoons that we watched in our childhood. But still at the very basic core of our souls we are very similar, madly attracted to each other and eager to share our different visions and perceptions of life with our readers.

We both believe that our life should look like a big adventure. Sometimes this road can be physical, sometimes metaphysical, but the main idea that we want to enforce and share is that we all need to meet and step over our boundaries and realize, that life is a wonderful road and our world is a great place to live. All the boundaries and restrictions are in our minds and so “Grow UP and Dare” – this is the message that we want to make the motto of our trips to different parts of the world and of our life in general. We want to dare and we welcome you, our readers, to join our daring experiences.

Marco>> I am more streetwise and have been learning everything on the go. That is why sometimes the visions on life that Nataly and I have can be totally different.  While she has been learning at several schools and universities, I’ve managed to get as much experience as possible by going through the hard-knock life. This makes our interaction very special and amazingly beautiful and I know that there will be a lot of people following us just because of this. We also have a natural tendency to attract a lot of interesting people around us. Nataly does this with her almost childish innocence, and I do it by my observation skills which I’ve learned through all my adventures as a soldier, bouncer and security guard. This is a long time ago and I became much milder, but still it is inside me and it affects the way that I pursue reality.

Nataly>> I am not streetwise at all, I am academic and more formal. And yes, there are a lot of differences, I come from former Soviet Union, Marco comes from capitalistic West. I love yoga and eastern spiritual practices and his matra is e= mc~2 and he is really fond of quantum physics and modern ideas about the Universe. Strangely, these ideas of spiritual East and scientific West do not contradict, but amazingly complement and enrich each other, and so do we in our interaction as a couple. So, here we are. Like us, follow us, comment us and let’s stay in touch.

Your Nataly and Marco.