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Travel Writer & Photographer at Against the Compass - Destinations Off the Beaten Track - Unusual Countries

Barcelona, Spain
Joined July 2016
Tips on how to visit Chernobyl in a sensitive manner, besides all the practical information and, of course, a strong criticism of all the sensationalism which is today flourishing around Chernobyl World againstthecompass.com/en/vis…
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Is blogging in 2 languages hard? Joan from @AgainstCompass shares his tips in this insightful guest post! buff.ly/2WIcVck
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Off-the-beaten path first choices. 'If you want to start exploring offbeat countries, you should first travel to Iran, Central Asia, #Azerbaijan, #Georgia and other relatively easy countries via Joan from @AgainstCompass: ow.ly/4a2050wEjtN #offthebeatentrack #destinations
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Excellent work by Joan Torres @AgainstCompass presenting useful travel tips for visitors of #Azerbaijan 🇦🇿. 💬 Azerbaijan, the ultimate Caucasian country, where #East literally meets #West. Imaginary line that separates #Europe from #Asia goes through 🇦🇿againstthecompass.com/en/bac…
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Replying to @AgainstCompass
@againstcompass travels to epic and exotic off-the-beaten-path destinations. He's also one of our students! Check out his interview to learn about his journey to blogging success! buff.ly/2XQZ3Qt
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Replying to @KerrySomewhere
I didn't know that - crazy - was a gender-specific word, but if you say it so...
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Replying to @awktravels
yes, it is written by a woman, the one in the photo
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Replying to @KerrySomewhere
but then you went crazy and started saying things about my pride and BS like that, totally non-sense, and I blocked you because I just hate arguing with RANDOM people on the internet like I am doing right now, which is a waste of time
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Replying to @KerrySomewhere
your opinion as a female is as valuable as the author's and what she posted fits the opinion from all the women I know who have been to Jordan - I kindly told you that, if you disagree, you could just leave a comment, so the author sees it and you can open open a debate
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Replying to @Nadaalnahdi92
you didn't disagree with anything, you didn't give any constructive criticism - You just came randomly here and accused me of giving personal female travel advice, which is BS - That's trolling
BTW, you didn't have a different opinion but you came here accusing me of something, which is different. Anyways, from the 183k monthly visits my blog gets, 50% are women, and they just send me greeting messages, so 1 or 2 trolls won't ruin my day 😘❤️ – at Roses, Spain
I thought you were the lady who was also insulting me on IG, but maybe you were not. Anyways, you are outraged, and saying non-sense things. Who said I am a journalist? I am a traveler who studied marketing and works full time on a blog – at Roses, Spain
Yeah, I have made statements after a girl writes the guest post, I don't create opinions, and if you want to think otherwise, seriously, I dont care. And anyways, why do you try to seek conflict where there's not? – at Roses, Spain
The reason for accepting guest posts was, precisely, because I didn't want to give female travel advice to the many women that email me every week asking about traveling to Arab countries; and you are absolutely annoying by the way, don't make me block you on twitter as well
whatever you see on my blog about women was written by women via a guest post, and the only exception is a post about ethical travel in KSA, whose words are transcribed from other local women, and the article was actually approved by them @Nadaalnahdi92 so stop trolling, please
'Muscat is one of those capitals with so many layers of history, whose strategic location made it particularly appealing for quite a few empires, from the Persian Sassanids to the Arabs, the Ottoman and the Portuguese' by @AgainstCompass :againstthecompass.com/en/vis… #Oman