Hi, I’m Ania!
I work full-time and I’ve traveled to over 90 countries. I’ve lived in Scotland, Spain, Chile, and Qatar. And I’ve never once had to quit my job to do it.
Postcards from the World exists because I kept looking for a travel blog that told me the truth — not just the highlights, but whether a destination actually delivers, whether a hotel is worth the price, and whether an itinerary makes sense for someone with 10 vacation days and real standards.
I couldn’t find it. So I wrote it instead.
I don’t travel full-time—so I’ve learned how to travel better.
I travel mid-range to luxury — not because I’m trying to impress anyone, but because I’ve learned that comfort, good design, and great food make a trip. I’m not interested in roughing it for the sake of it, and I’m not interested in pretending a bad experience was good because the view was pretty.
I love road trips, city breaks, and the kind of stays where you actually want to spend time in the room. I plan carefully and leave space for spontaneity. And I always look for the balance between comfort, authenticity, and genuine discovery.
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My Story
I was born in Poland. After finishing high school I moved to Scotland to study psychology and psychotherapy — and that move changed everything.
From the start, I knew travel had to be part of my life. Not someday. Now. So while studying and working three jobs in Scotland, I structured my time around it. Weekends became short European escapes. University breaks became longer trips. I planned assignments around travel windows and worked while others went out, so I could disappear into a new country for a few days or weeks.
That rhythm — work, plan, travel, repeat — became my normal. And it still is.
Over the years I’ve lived across Scotland, Spain, Chile, and Qatar, and traveled to over 90 countries. One of the most defining trips wasn’t a luxury hotel or famous landmark — it was volunteering with sea turtles in Tobago. I went alone, not as part of an organized group. I stayed and ate with locals, and experienced the island slowly, without rushing. That trip reshaped how I see travel: not as a checklist, but as a way of genuinely stepping into a place.
That honesty — the good and the bad — is what I bring to every post I write.
How Postcards from the world started
Postcards from the World started in Chile, over ten years ago, and it started out of necessity as much as passion.
I had just quit my job and moved there. I was someone who always needed to be creating something: studying, working, dancing, making things, and suddenly I had unstructured time and no outlet for it. I had years of travel stories, expat experiences, and hard-won knowledge about how to actually navigate the world, and nowhere to put any of it.
So I built a blog. Taught myself everything from scratch: web design, SEO, writing for an online audience. It wasn’t polished at the start. But I was completely invested from day one.
What began as a personal journal slowly became something more intentional. I started writing the kind of guides I always wished existed: honest, detailed, based on real experience rather than press trips or recycled information. And over ten years, that’s exactly what Postcards from the World has become: a resource built entirely on places I’ve actually been, stays I’ve actually paid for, and trips I’ve planned myself.
It’s a side project I take seriously. And the fact that it now helps thousands of people plan better trips — that’s what keeps me writing.
If my guides have helped you plan a trip, find the right hotel, or navigate a road trip with more confidence, you can support my work by buying me a coffee.