Travel friendships come and go.

The unfortunate reality of moving countries as you move homes is that it’s nearly impossible to stay in touch with every friend you make along the way. But every now and then you meet someone whose friendship not only proves the test of time, but that of distance, too.

Today I want to introduce you to one such friend of mine: Micaela.

The night I met Micaela in 2008, she had her backpack on, fresh off the Eurostar from Paris. I’d moved to London for the first time only weeks earlier and quickly found myself a part of her group of hilarious Kiwi friends.

Since then, I’ve spent a year in her home country of New Zealand, we reunited in London in 2010, she’s making plans to visit my home country next year, and heck, we even liked the same guy at one point.

If we survived that, we can survive anything:

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Spreading christmas cheer in the French Alps, 2008.
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Sipping Mövenpick smoothies in Auckland, 2010.
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Celebrating my 25th birthday in London, 2011.

All that being said, Micaela recently left for her first extended solo trip – a Croatian sailing adventure from Dubrovnik to Split, a quick stop in the Plitvice Lakes, and a week in Greece, including five nights on the island of Santorini.

I may or may not be incredibly, overwhelmingly jealous.

I can remember the first time we brainstormed her trip back in March, searching for flights and hostels over Persian food in London. In the months that followed, there were many long Skype conversations and a flurry of emails sent back and forth as Micaela worked to put it all together.

Her questions ranged from how to find a cheap flight to Athens to what happens if she gets lonely on the road. And the more we talked, the more I thought: surely Micaela isn’t the only one asking these travel questions.

So I’ve decided to run a bit of a series here on The Great Affair. For the next four weeks, I’ll be blogging on four different questions Micaela brought up:

And not surprisingly, I’ve titled the series, Conversations with Micaela:

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I’m excited to share some of our conversations with you, so check back each Monday for the next post!

Have any travel questions of your own you’d like me to talk about?

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