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Nine years ago they decided to sell everything and quit their respective jobs at an
advertising agency
.
He, Rubén Señor, as creative director and producer.
She, Lucía Sánchez, as account manager.
Goal?
Fulfill his dream: go around the world for a whole year.
So the next step was to buy
a one-way ticket to Beijing
and start the feat.
China, Laos, Thailand, Myanmar,
Malaysia, Singapore,
Philippines, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Australia, Dubai, Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia,
Peru, Ecuador and New York
.
The family, before starting the trip in Madrid.PHOTOS: SOMETHING TO REMEMBER
That was the first journey of this couple of globetrotters.
They had been thinking about the idea for a long time, but "there was always an excuse
for not-carrying-out-the-dream-of-your-life"
, says Rubén, but "it was a matter of life or boredom" and, in the end, they decided to give it guts.
During that year, they even recorded a documentary,
Around Them,
in which they interviewed
15 women from 15
different countries.
They fulfilled their dream, but it wasn't long after that, so that would be their first adventure, but not the only one.
Mother and son, during one of their trips.
Turned into experienced
travel bloggers
known as Something to remember on the Internet, they were pulling miles around half the planet, at the time that another documentary arrived,
Hello, world
about how
to travel with children
and for which they had the collaboration of figures such as the singer
Alejandro Sanz
or
the pediatrician Lucía Galán
.
And there is one piece of information missing: two more people joined them along the way, their five-year-old children Koke and six-month-old Tindaya.
Mother and son, during one of their trips.
Together and after two years of hiatus due to the pandemic in which they settled in the Canary Islands, the five of them have just started a
new traveling project
(the "long" fifth, as they say):
touring Europe for seven months
(or more; they never you know...) exchanging houses, a form of travel that is constantly gaining popularity.
"This is our fifth long trip in which we combine traveling with our van with the exchange of houses. As it is a long trip and we are going with the children, it is
a good way to gather strength and have space
, "he tells El Mundo The couple travel.
Of course, they also have their motorhome as a means of transport, inseparable for nine years.
Lucia, pregnant, during a tour of northern Europe.
The exchange will be carried out through HomeExchange, the leading platform in this type of experience, which serves them on a tray the possibility of sleeping in one of its
450,000 homes spread over 159 countries
, either reciprocally (you lend your home and another user of the portal lends you his) or in exchange for
GuestPoints
(points to stay in another residence at another time).
In this way, the leading couple will travel from house to house in cities such as Amsterdam, Hamburg,
Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm, Tallinn,
Riga, Warsaw or Berlin during their journey through the Old Continent.
From Colombia to South Africa
It is not the first time that Rubén and Lucía have exchanged homes.
They have already done it 11 times.
In Colombia, Rio de Janeiro, Chile,
the United States, South Africa, Argentina
... "It is a comfortable way to visit specific places that are sometimes priceless. In addition,
contact with their owners gives us all kinds of advice about the place
We ignore the advantages of having a house with all the comforts that, traveling as a family, you value more. Well, and toys, of course, "they explain.
Travelers passed the pandemic in the Canary Islands.
They were dying to re-experience the thrill of
getting in the van
and discovering new places with their little ones.
This is how Lucía lived her childhood: "My parents were never one to buy an apartment on the beach, nor to repeat a destination, so I have been
camping and caravan meat
since I was three months old", as she confesses on her blog.
Therefore, they encourage all those parents who are reluctant to travel as a family to do so.
The more (and even further), the better.
"We have spent many years trying to convey that
not only should you travel with children, but that you can
. Let them ignore the phrase "totally, if they are not going to remember". Let them launch to anchor memories to places. That the little ones they learn a lot by submitting to
new stimuli
. And above all, traveling with children ensures memories forever," they conclude.
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