All about 22places

The 22places story

How did it all come about with 22places?

Good question!

Well, it was like this:

We love traveling!

Okay, you probably already thought that, didn’t you? But that didn’t just happen because of 22places. No! It’s always been like that.

Until something quite banal put an end to our urge to travel. Real life! The job! 24 vacation days a year! Our love of travel could no longer really be reconciled with this.

Because for us, traveling meant more than just being somewhere else for a few days. We wanted more than that – to live there, to really immerse ourselves, to feel, smell and taste the place.

But then came THE day.

THE day that completely changed our lives.

THE day when we heard about people working from all over the world.

That’s exactly what we wanted!

That day – it was a gray October evening in 2014 – we sat around the table with spaghetti all’amatriciana and dry red wine and decided to turn our lives completely upside down.

Sounds crazy, doesn’t it? Maybe it was.

But we simply knew that we wanted to live our lives in a more self-determined and free way. Not determined by office hours and waiting for the weekend. Or the pressure of having to squeeze our trips into 24 vacation days.

That day we decided to start a travel blog.

And don’t get us wrong here. Our plan was not to keep a little travel diary.

No, we wanted to earn money with it. This travel blog was going to be our new job of a lifetime.

We were very serious about it.

Completely naive!

We had no idea how to do it and whether we would earn any money with it.

But what we did have was a clear goal in mind! We wanted to achieve what others had already done – live and work from anywhere in the world.

We still remember the moment when we told our parents about our plan.

They turned white as chalk, threw up their hands and were absolutely certain that we would be at their door in a few months at the latest, begging for food and a roof over our heads.

How wrong they were. Fortunately!

Because to be honest, at the time we weren’t entirely sure whether it was such a good idea.

But we really got stuck in for a year. With full conviction that it was the right decision. We worked day and night on our dream.

Our 1st goal: to go to South East Asia together after this year. Not to go on vacation, but to live and work there.

And you would have guessed it:

It worked out!

Today, we can tell you with a big grin on our faces that we are very, very happy about this gray October evening (and the red wine) that pushed us out of our everyday lives.

We have traveled the world, discovered wonderful places, met enchanting people, developed 22places into the most-read German-language travel blog, built up a team of 12 employees and in between we have also become mom and dad twice.

We still can’t believe it today.

Neither can our parents. Haha.

If you’re wondering why we’re still doing what we started on that gray October evening, then we can answer that very clearly.

Because with 22places, we are THE travel blog that we would have wished for ourselves when we first started traveling.

THE travel blog that makes travel planning simple.

THE place where you can find everything you really need to know.

Without the fuss. Sorted. Tidy. And always independent, honest and authentic.

We didn’t want 1000 different pieces of information, we wanted to focus on the information that was really important to us.

So we wanted to do it better than everyone else.

That was our aim right from the start – for ourselves and for 22places.

We want to give you the best and most helpful tips for your destination so that you can experience it as intensively as possible in the shortest possible time.

And this mission still drives us.

Every day it gives us the energy and strength to keep going.

To keep getting better.

No matter how confusing the information on your topic or destination seems to be:

22places makes complicated simple.

That was our story.