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I survived another month of lockdown, another month without international travel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had many plans for this summer. I was supposed to go to an awesome music festival and see Twenty One Pilots, I was supposed to go to Georgia, Armenia, Czechia, Greece, and Turkey. I had to cancel all these plans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a travel blogger, people keep asking me if I’m considering traveling right now. Well, I don’t. I don’t think it’s safe to travel outside the country yet. However, I am planning a few short trips inside Romania, my home country in the next months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

June passed by without any major events. I worked on the blog, visited my parents in Brasov, and did a short road trip to a beautiful waterfall (see pic below).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Also, we did a spontaneous day trip to the seaside on one of the weekends. From Bucharest to the seaside it’s a 2 and half hour drive. We visited the most popular summer destination in Romania – Mamaia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We walked on the beach, listened to the breeze, and enjoyed a relaxing day away from the traffic of Bucharest. Honestly, with no future travels in sight, visiting Mamaia felt like a trip to the Philippines. I was super excited and I loved this short trip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Also, I discovered my talent as a painter this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A few months ago I bought a paint-by-numbers painting from Aliexpress and I finally managed to find the time to finish it. If you like to paint but you’re not very good at it, I recommend trying painting by numbers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For $20 I got a package that included the canvas, brushes, and acrylic paint. All I had to do was match the numbers on the canvas with the corresponding colors and Voila!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It took me about 5 days to finish this painting but I love the result. I can’t wait to hang my colorful deer on one of the walls in my apartment. What do you say, would you ever try painting by numbers?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In my free time, I started watching a new TV series that I absolutely love – Better Call Saul. Most of the actors are from Breaking Bad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you watched and loved Breaking Bad, you’ll love Better Call Saul too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blog updates<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I’m super-happy because this month I was nominated by Elle Romania for the Best Travel Blog Award<\/a><\/strong>. I didn’t win but it was an honor to be nominated together with other creative and passionate people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other than that, my blog’s traffic is slooooowly starting to increase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For many people, travel is not a priority right now and it shouldn’t be. In my opinion, it would take another year for travel to recover to about 70% of previous numbers. I expect that people will start to travel more at the beginning of 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, I’ll keep updating old blog posts and creating new content. Travel is not dead and will never be. I’m committed to this blog and I put all my energy into it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are the blog posts I wrote in the past month<\/p>\n\n\n\n