Kiwi Globetrotteuse is a travel blog created by Carolyn, I’m a travel addict & aspiring writer and photographer from New Zealand with a background in the bespoke travel industry.
I’m on a mission to travel to all 193 UN member states in my lifetime (plus a few UN observer states, dependencies & territories along the way). As of November 2024 I’ve made it to 45 countries and counting! You can learn more about the challenge I have set for myself here.
About My Blog
Why did I start Kiwi Globetrotteuse?
I started Kiwi Globetrotteuse back in May 2016. It was Autumn in Auckland and I could see a long, boring winter stretched out in front of me. I was saving hard for the Round the World trip that my partner and I were planning in 2017 and I knew this meant I would have to forgo quite a few restaurant dinners, nights out drinking and exciting weekend trip with friends in order to be frugal instead. I had this picture of myself cooped up inside all winter, bored out of my brains with no good shows left to stream on the internet. Ever the proactive person I am I decided to do something about it! So I started this blog.
Why do I run a travel blog, what’s in it for me?
Seeing I work full time my blog (and my travels) have to fit around my life. I mainly work on my blog in my evenings & weekends. You’d be surprised how much hard work & time goes into running a travel blog, I know I was at the start! Sometimes I wish I had more time to put towards my blog and of course I always wish I had more time to spend travelling too. I have so many more destinations and travel tips and experiences that I would love to share with you. But I mainly blog because I enjoy it and, for the moment at least, Kiwi Globetrotteuse is a creative outlet rather than a way for me to make money.
Why Kiwi Globetrotteuse? What does it mean?
Globetrotteuse is the ‘frenchified’ feminine form of the word ‘globetrotter’ i.e. someone who likes to travel all over the world. I’m a Kiwi (a New Zealander) but I’m also a massive Francophile. I was that girl whose favourite cartoon character growing up was Madeleine, (the little French orphan from Paris.) At high school I shunned typically recommended subjects – you know, those boring ones like Calculus, Physics, Chemistry – in favour of History, Geography and French classes. Then I went on a student exchange to Marseille, France when I was 17 and got really, properly fluent in French. That was my first overseas experience and the first foreign language I’ve learnt. I basically haven’t looked back since!