I am a traveler, photographer and storyteller with a love of documenting the world around me. My lifelong goal is to explore every country in the world.
Born to Dutch and German parents, I was raised in England, the United States and Canada. After graduating from a Canadian university and working full-time for a few years, I left Canada at the beginning of 2019 for a six-week backpacking trip... which I never went back from! Instead, I spent nearly two years traveling through Asia and Oceania based out of New Zealand. In late 2020, I moved back to Europe, based first in Belgium and then in Austria. I'm currently traveling around Oceania once again, this time based out of Australia.
I've lived in seven countries so far, hold three passports and speak two languages. This global lifestyle - my first international flight was aged just three months and my first solo international flight was not much later at age seven - has led to a deep-rooted passion for new places and adventure. I don't consider anywhere in the world to be home and I find joy in this freedom to discover the globe, sharing my adventures along the way.
In my 29 years so far, I have been to 80 of 269 countries and territories (see where I got that number) on six of the world's seven continents in my goal to visit every single one in the world using my expansive bucket list as a guide.
Alongside and in between my travels, I am an avid reader (check out my book list for every book I've read since 2018) and love browsing op shops and antique markets, collecting treasures from around the world, doing all sorts of active things (running, yoga, skiing, hiking, snorkeling, biking, tennis...), cuddling every dog I see (and every other animal that will let me), curating new playlists, indulging in delicious vegetarian food and having long conversations with good friends.
Available for worldwide collaborations. All content is copyright Jana Meerman; please get in touch if you wish to use materials for publishing purposes. All thoughts expressed on this blog are my own. All advice and tips should be read as opinion pieces based on my experiences.
