Love comes in various shapes, sizes and opportunities. Sometimes it comes, when its least expected to and some of the most unique love stories are formed while you travel with your love. Travelling brings unexpected and unimaginable experiences and what better it can get, then finding your soul-mate on the road.

I have compiled a list of 7 very beautiful love stories that were formed on the road. People who started off their journey solo, but ended up being with someone whom they wouldn’t trade for the entire world.

Come let’s walk together on this journey of love and grab some motivation to plan the next trip- who knows the trip might turn into the most unforgettable trip of your life.

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Love on the road

They say that it doesn’t matter where you’re going, it’s who you have beside you that counts. That’s so true of us – while we do travel the world, it truly wouldn’t be as fulfilling if we didn’t do it together.

We hail from South Africa and England respectively. Lee grew up in sunny Cape Town while James spent most of his life in London, although did a stint in Edinburgh, Scotland, for university. Luckily he was transferred to Cape Town to work with a leading sports marketing agency and, through a chance meeting through friends, we found each other.

Our intention wasn’t really to travel together beyond a few vacations but only a year into dating we found ourselves moving to Bonn, Germany, for Lee to further her career in marketing and logistics. Six years later we were still there, and we loved it. Germany offered us the chance to easily hop over to other countries in Europe, whether booking a last-minute train or even taking the car over the border for a weekend jaunt. But we wanted more. Cue our current life change: backpacking the world.

At the time of writing, we’ve been backpacking for over 10 months through Asia and Oceania. Before the trip, Lee had never owned a backpack and had never stayed in less than a 5-star hotel, as a previous corporate traveller. It’s been the best thing for our relationship and our marriage – she’s been pushed out of her comfort zone and seen an entirely different side to the world. We’ve taken countless trains, buses, planes and ferries together. We’ve survived two typhoon scares, been stuck in far too many far-flung places and spent 24 hours a day together for almost a year. We started a travel blog, scaled the temples of Bagan, hiked the great wall of China and swam with sharks in Australia. Who knows what’s next for us but we know this: we’ll be doing it together and we will travel with love.

By Lee of The Travel Scribes

Love while studying abroad

Love is a mysterious thing and always seems to creep up on you when you least expect it. This is exactly what happened to me when I met my boyfriend abroad. I went on an international exchange in 2017 from Canada to Amsterdam. The exchange was for six months and I planned to travel around Europe with my friends, meet some new people, and then go home and continue my regular life in Canada.

During my second month in Amsterdam, there was a party in my building and a guy I’d never seen before walked in. Right away I asked everyone who he was and went up to introduce myself. I found out he was from Switzerland and had just moved here to study for a year. From the second we started talking and for the following 4 months, we were inseparable. We decided we wanted to be together even after the exchange, and I went back to Canada finished my studies, and moved to Amsterdam to do my masters.

We now live together in Amsterdam, both with jobs, and are constantly going on dates in Amsterdam and exploring this wondrous world. I always think about how lucky we are to have found each other in a way and how amazing it is to meet someone so perfect for you in the place you least expect it.   

By Samantha of Sam Sees World

Love in the office

Mark and I met because we both decided to travel for work and after-wards we never stopped travelling together.

Our eyes first met across the crowded office, but we really only started to know each other on a business trip. From business trips the step was short to travelling for the shared pleasure of discovering new places and new cultures … as if discovering each other’s different habits was not enough!

Some of the most important moments of our relationship also happened while travelling, such as our engagement. The coveted proposal was initially planned by Mark to take place on the Eiffel tower during a weekend in Paris but avoided at the last minute because the tourist crowds ruined the atmosphere (that’s what he say!!!). His courage was found once again a few months later in a totally unexpected place: a remote village during our tour of Sicily on a stormy day!

Even when we decided to start a family and a difficult twin pregnancy surprised us, we continued to travel with love and our twin boys have had their first American road trip while still waiting to be born!

By Clotilde of A Princess Travelling with Twins

Love in a hot air balloon

It’s before sunrise in Napa Valley, California, and I’m barely awake. My boyfriend, Mark, and I are standing in the basket of a hot air balloon as it readies for liftoff. The sound from the bursting flames sends a blast of fiery energy through my body. I welcome the heat from the fire as it takes the chill out of the air. 

We take off in darkness, but before long, the sun is rising. A few sun rays are filtering through the sky as the dawn starts to settle in around us. There is mist floating on top of the vines, in between the grapes. It looks like the grape bunches are floating in the clouds just as we are. 

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Mark taps me on the shoulder, and when I turn around, he is on bended knee. It takes a minute to register what is going on. I hear his words asking me to marry him. In my mind, I’m screaming, “Yes, yes, yes,” but apparently, no sound is coming out. Finally, the pilot asks me to respond to my poor boyfriend, who is now holding his breath, awaiting my response. 

Eventually, I hear myself shout, “YES!” Everyone in the balloon starts clapping and hugging us as he fits the ring on my finger. 

That was in 2001, and I still think it was the most romantic proposal ever.

By Kirsten of Sand in my Curls

Love in North America

I met my husband when I was in New York City on vacation.  I was spending a few weeks in NYC staying with a friend before heading to Canada for a five-month epic trip across the country by train.  We met two weeks before I left and those two weeks were a filled with a crazy holiday romance.  The day after I left, I called him from Boston and most of my day there was spent on a long phone call.  Which turned into an equally long phone call in Portland, and then from every place I went to in Canada.  Over those five months, in addition to marathon daily phone calls, he came to Canada three times.  We spent an incredibly romantic week travelling with love through the Canadian Rockies together; another week relaxing on Salt Spring Island near Vancouver where we kayaked, rode bikes and hiked together; and a final week in Montreal, where we froze together sightseeing in a Quebec November.  I zigzagged around the country more than I had planned, matching our time together with interesting places to visit, and at the end of it all, we decided to move to Australia together.  We now live in New York where it all began.

By James of Travel Collecting

Love while teaching abroad

I was halfway through a year of teaching English in Japan when a new teacher from the U.S. arrived. Matt was as excited as I was to be teaching English abroad for the first time. Like me, he had become a teacher primarily to support his travels. 

We were assigned to teach the same language level so we frequently met in the evenings to plan our lessons. I think we liked each other right away but were hesitant to act on our feelings. We had come to Japan to explore the world and we both had ambitious travel plans.

When our semester ended, we said goodbye, not knowing if we’d see each other again. I had accepted a job where I’d be living full-time aboard a riverboat and Matt had renewed his contract and was staying in Japan.

I then spent the next year convinced that I’d given up the one love of my life and kicking myself for not telling him exactly how I felt. 

About a year after we parted ways, we ended up in Bangkok at the same time. I had known he was going to be there but we hadn’t yet made specific plans to meet and one day we just ran into each other on Khao San Road. 

By then, we knew we wanted to be together. We got married about three years later and have been travelling with love ever since.

By Michele of From Inwood Out

Love while touring the city together

My husband Nick and I met in the Roman Forum, where I was working as a tour guide and he was a tourist. He was backpacking around Europe and had only planned to be in Rome for a few days. But after asking me about how I’d come to work there, he decided to stay on and become a tour guide himself. So we became colleagues, and then over time, we became good friends. We bonded over our mutual love of travel, and even planned a three-month trip around the Middle East together, just as friends.

But then, one night while watching Seven Years in Tibet with a bottle of wine, our friendship took a romantic turn. We took off on that Middle East trip shortly afterwards and have made many more trips together since then. For the first few years of our relationship, we spent more time travelling together than we did staying in one place. After five years, we went back to Rome, where it all began, to get married. It was a small, intimate wedding with about 30 close friends and family members. Instead of a typical wedding reception, our wedding party ate dinner together at our favourite Roman trattoria. Rome remains a very special place for us, and we try to get back there as often as we can. 

By Wendy of The Nomadic Vegan

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