Looking for another reason to travel? How about finding your soulmate on the road and write a unique travel tale together? Travelling takes you through experiences which you haven’t thought of and those experiences often turn into unique travel tales which live with the time never forgotten.

Sometimes while on the road you meet people who help you see the world from a different perspective than yours, you meet some strangers whose empathy makes them a part of your prayers forever and then some other times you meet people who become your soulmates.

I have collaborated with 14 wonderful bloggers who fell in love while being on the road, away from their homes and today they proudly credit their love of travel and exploration as the reason they met their soulmates.

So let’s embark on this journey of love together and read these unique travel love tales of people who met their soulmate, miles away from their homes. Also, let hope these tales of love become an inspiration for all of us to travel more and who knows even we might find our love while being on the road.

Read another 7 beautiful love stories, made on the road

Met halfway, married faraway

Once upon a time, in a far off land… Well, not entirely 🙂 It happened only a couple of years ago, in Europe. I am officially Polish, my husband is Spanish. We met each other halfway, in the Netherlands, and we fell in love.

One of the things we both love is travelling, most of our birthday gifts to each other are plane tickets and so we have a lot of unique travel love tales to tell. It was pretty obvious that we would get married abroad, in a stunning location. We decided to organize a destination wedding on Madeira Island, a small Portuguese island located between the Azores and the Canary Islands.

Our wedding was very international, we had over 45 guests from the USA, India, Korea, South Africa, the UK, Greece, and of course our home countries. We had a ceremony by an infinity pool, a photoshoot on top of a mountain, but just as memorable as the ceremony were all the simple dinners and trips we took together with our guests. My favourite one was the catamaran dolphin watching trip we took in Funchal with my entire family. We rarely travel in big groups so having them with us in such a beautiful location was the best wedding gift. We enjoyed every single moment of it and now we are sharing Madeira Island destination wedding tips on our blog, helping other couples organize a similar adventure. 

By Edyta from Say Yes to Madeira

Love in Prague

I never expected to meet my husband through Twitter, but that’s exactly how it happened. Travel is my biggest passion, and in 2010, I wanted to switch my free blog into a self-hosted one. But I had no idea how to do it. So I tweeted, “I just bought a domain but I don’t know how to set up the hosting.” Andy saw it, replied that he could help, and agreed to stay up late to Skype with me. You see, I was living in Atlanta, but Andy, who is originally from North Carolina, was living in Freiburg, Germany. After he helped me, we started reading each other’s travel blogs and emailing each other. After a few weeks, we Skyped again, and it was one of those amazing conversations you never want to end. We spent 4 months getting to know each other through emails and long Skype calls, and we fell in love. I had already booked a trip to Prague before we started talking, so Andy decided to meet me there and little did we knew that it would turn into a beautiful, unique travel tale of love. It was a little weird for about 5 minutes, but then it all felt so natural. It confirmed that this was the guy for me. I flew to Germany a few times over the next few months to visit him. And less than one year after that first tweet, Andy flew to Atlanta, and we got married. I’ve now been living in Germany for almost 9 years, and we’ve been in Berlin for the past 5 years.

By Ali Garland from Travel Made Simple

Love being exchange students

When my husband Steve and I met 35 years ago, I was an undergraduate at a California university who had just returned from a year abroad as an exchange student in the Loire Valley, France. He was a grad student (my teaching assistant in a biology class, in fact) who had just spent the summer visiting his exchange family in Denmark from almost a decade earlier. We connected over travel.

I’d also lugged a Peugeot racing bicycle back from Paris just before we met. And he’d just cycled Rome to Nice that summer after visiting his Danish family. For years, he told a story about that cycling journey…how he was stuck on his bike near La Spezia on his way towards Riomaggiore, a small coastal Italian fishing village that was shut up for the night—with few prospects for meals or a place to sleep—when a local rescued him by putting him directly on a train to Genoa. (“There’s nothing there to see…just little boring towns,” he said.) So we connected in our shared love of cycling as well.

Over the next decades, our experience as exchange students defined a shared travel style where we have worked hard to connect with locals in all the years since. We did plenty of home exchanges around the western US and Canada when our kids were small and later rented an apartment in Cambridge when a work opportunity presented itself for a month. 

Recently, we visited the famed and beautiful Cinque Terre in Italy on the occasion of our birthdays, which are two days apart. And that’s when Steve realized that he’d missed one of the most beautiful stretches of Italian coastline 35 years earlier, thanks to that “helpful” local. Riomaggiore was a dream! It was worth waiting for.

By Chris Roman from Explore Now or Never

Love through a shared love of travel

I met my girlfriend Christine in Rhodes when I was working at a bar. She was working in another bar and we met one day at the beach, and from there it was love at first sight. Since then we have been travelling the world together for over five years and been with each other for more or less 24/7 during that time period.

We’ve also embarked on the travel blogger journey together, although we have separate blogs and brand names. In the last couple of years, we’ve visited more than 55 countries and created memories for a lifetime together.

Already at an early start, we figured out that we had similar interests and that we had a desire to travel the world. In addition to our travel blogs, we’ve also been featured together in various magazines and we share photos from our travels in our social media channels to more than 500 000 followers combined.

By Alex Waltner from Swedish Nomad

Love while working abroad

I met my husband in Jacksonville, Florida. I was born & raised in Manila, Philippines, and I got a chance to relocate to Jacksonville for work as part of a long-term assignment in 2013. My husband was working at the same company as I was (we were actually on the same team), and that’s how we originally met. He was originally from Bratislava, Slovakia, migrated to Sarasota, Florida, when he was 12, and found work in Jacksonville, and we eventually found each other, to write a unique travel love story together. We were from two different continents and met, married, and settled in an entirely different continent. 

He liked to travel, but he didn’t like going at it solo, so he always held back his travel dreams. I, on the other hand, will go solo if need be, if it means a lot of travel. Together, we have been to a lot of new US cities and states, as well as countries in Europe, Asia, the Caribbean & beyond. Oh, and we’re not stopping our discovery of the world, even as we welcomed a new addition to our family. 

By Ruby Escalona from A Journey We Love

Love while learning Salsa abroad

I met the love of my life in Cali—the most underrated city in Colombia. Most people skip right through Cali, but since I’d heard it was the Salsa Capital of the World, I couldn’t resist taking a few classes before passing through. Little did I know that those classes would change the entire trajectory of my life.

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During one of my group lessons, I looked in the mirror during warmups and saw a beautiful Colombian girl walk through the door. At the time, I was purposely trying to avoid girls (I was tired of all the sad goodbyes). But I couldn’t stop looking at her. Our eyes met a couple of times, but we both quickly looked away.

At the end of class, she introduced herself and said she was going out to a salsa bar with some friends to practise the dance routine we’d learned. Their group was one man short, so she invited me to join them.

It sounded harmless to me, so I agreed. A few hours later I arrived at the Discoteca only to discover that all her friends had bailed! It was just her and I. We ordered some beers, talked all night at the bar, and the rest is history.

Now, three years later, we are married and working online while travelling the world. together.

By Mitch Glass of Project Untethered

Love in the desert of Namibia

Darek and I are both foreigners, Polish and Italian, living in Budapest. We met through the Couchsurfing community. After 3 years together we wanted to get married, this was clear, but we also wanted to buy the engagement ring while travelling. We weren’t looking for a diamond, but for a meaningful and memorable ring. 

In March 2017, during a 2-week road-trip in Namibia, between campings and canyons and deserts, it seemed impossible to find a cute jewellery or handcraft shop. Instead, as usual, destiny surprised us: at the souvenir shop in the famous abandoned town of Kolmanskop, I tried on a simple silver ring with a black engraving. I stared at it, trying to imagine how it would feel to look at it every day for the rest of my life. It was a little scary, but also very exciting! Darek bought it, and that’s when I realized that this was just the first step: he put the little paper bag in his pocket. He didn’t give it to me, didn’t ask me to marry him right there and then. I did not consider that possibility! 

Luckily, he didn’t make me wait for long. Three days later, at Sossusvlei desert, we were late for sunrise! We were rushing up Dune 45, the sky already pink and yellow and light blue, feet sinking deep in the sand, trying to reach the summit before the sun came up. I  stopped half-way, breathless, Darek behind me: the sun was rising, bright and bold, over the unbelievable sand dunes. That’s when Darek pulled out the paper bag from his pocket and said: “A beautiful sunrise… it looks like a new beginning, right?”. He fumbled to pick out the ring for what seemed like minutes. My hands were shaking: I couldn’t believe it was happening! “Will you marry me?” He asked, holding my hand, wind and sand in our hair. What else could I say? “Yes!”

By Giulia of Travelling Sunglasses

Love in Bangkok

Back in 2012, I met my current partner in a small bar in Bangkok, Thailand. We were both solo travelling at the time, he is Australian and I am Canadian. We were out enjoying a fun night of socializing and meeting other travellers but we didn’t end up exchanging each other’s names or numbers.

The next day, we randomly bumped into each other in the busy streets of Bangkok. We started chatting and he told me of his plans to head to the beautiful island of Koh Tao and asked me if I’d like to join him. Unfortunately, I had already purchased my ticket to Malaysia for the following day so I declined. He told me to meet him at the bus station at 6 PM the next day if I changed my mind.

I’m still not quite sure what made me do it but the next day, I went to cancel my train ticket to Malaysia and met him at the bus stop. We spent one week together on Koh Tao and then went our separate ways. Over one year later, I continued my travels onto Australia and eventually ended up in his home city of Perth. He invited me to stay with him for a few days and the rest is history. Fast forward to the summer of 2018 when we got engaged in Tallinn, Estonia on our travels through Europe and we are currently planning our wedding in Canada for the summer of 2021!

By Ann of The Road is Life

Love in Edinburgh, Scotland

Nathan and I met in a hostel in Edinburgh. While it’s hardly the most traditionally romantic location among all the gorgeous, insanely romantic castles in Scotland, it certainly was for us. We were both travelling in Edinburgh, Scotland and happened serendipitously to be placed in the same cramped dorm room. A conversation started. Little did we know we had met the love of our lives while being on the road.

That was the first of our travels together, and many more have since followed: campervanning in Australia, exploring Romania, road tripping through Wales. And our greatest adventure is being married to one another. What a journey! 

We think that our love of travel brought us together, and we also are firm believers that couples who travel together, stay together. So get out there and adventure!!

By Amy Hartle of Two Drifters

Love in Auckland, New Zealand

On a fateful night in 2010, Chris and I met at Grand Central bar on Auckland’s party street Ponsonby Road. I was on a Working Holiday and while in Auckland, this pub was my local haunt. 

I don’t remember too many details of that night, but I do remember spending hours talking and ignoring the world around us.

For the remainder of my time in Auckland, we stayed together and got to know each other. When the time came for me to travel around New Zealand, we sent each other tons of SMS (it was still early days for smartphones) and when I returned, I moved in with Chris for a couple of weeks. We had the most amazing time playing house, lots of cooking together, drinking wine, chatting. And had the most romantic evening when we went for dinner at Sky Tower for Chris’ birthday.

When I had to go home to Switzerland, we decided it would be easier to stay friends instead of trying a long-distance relationship.

Life went on for the next few years, we both went in and out of relationships with other people and occasionally updated each other on our lives via Facebook. But there was always this little voice in my head: “What if…”

Fast-forward 6 years, we finally decided we would see each other again, I’d visit him in Auckland. We were both insanely nervous when Chris picked me up at the airport but it was as if these years apart were merely a few weeks. 

We fell in love again. 

I visited him once in New Zealand and he came to Switzerland twice to meet my friends and family before I moved to New Zealand in August 2017 for good where we now happily live and explore the country together.

Some things are worth waiting for.

By Alexandra Diethelm of Discover Aotearoa

Love across borders

I am originally from California and grew up with a Filipino mother. I identify as American, but I do some of the Filipino cultural norms and traditions. I have been travelling a bit including living in Europe for a year and eventually settled in Montreal where I met my now boyfriend. He is originally from France and though he has some French norms, he has lived in North America for long enough that he understands most of my norms.

Montreal is a bit-perfect because it’s a 6-hour flight from California and France, so right in the middle. It is also bilingual, which incorporates both our native languages. What is fun about our relationship is that he speaks fluent English, I am improving my conversational French, and we both speak fluent Spanish. This has enabled us to be able to communicate efficiently and effectively since there are certain phrases and words that cannot be translated. He has been around Americans, but not Filipinos and has fallen in love with my heritage, which is amazing for me that I don’t have to hide or compromise it. And for me, he has been teaching me the culturally and linguistically differences between French French and Quebecois French, which as a non-native, I wouldn’t necessarily pick up on my own. We come from two different cultures and languages, but yet, managed to find this middle area geographically and culturally good enough to write our unique travel love story.

By Marinella Yule of My Open Passport

Love on the Contiki Tour of Europe

I was having a really bad day at work so I resigned and one month later found myself hopping on a bus to undertake a 31 day Contiki Tour of Europe. I was by myself and feeling very nervous as I hadn’t travelled on my own before. But I soon discovered that most people on the tour were also on their own.

Paris was our first stop and at dinner that first night I sat with a group of nice and friendly people who became my friends for the whole tour. There was one fellow that I thought was rather nice and we spent a lot of time together on the trip. I enjoyed having special people to share the different foods, experiences and the wonders of Europe with, but particularly this fella made the trip special. After the tour, we all went separate ways on different travel adventures but we continued to stay in touch. I met up again with a number of my travelling friends when we returned to Australia including that nice fella. Now some twenty-five years later we are still together and have 2 children.

By Sharyn McCullum of Live Work Play

Love in China

My husband and I were friends first. Back in 2007 we took a 6 week trip to China and went from being friends to being a couple. Now, (since Dec. 2017), we’re travelling the world together. 

I should also mention that my husband didn’t think much of travel before our trip to China. That trip changed his mind about a few things. 

Prior to 2007, I was a solo traveller. This was mostly because none of my friends wanted to travel where I wanted to go, so I happily went by myself. 

Then there was my best friend, Tim. He’d never seen the value of travel. He thought everywhere was pretty much the same, at its core, anyway.  

After a variety of medical issues, Tim’s vision began deteriorating, and we knew it was going to continue to do so. I asked him if he could travel anywhere, to see anything before his vision got really bad (we didn’t know how quickly this would happen), where would he go? 

After some thought, he said he would like to see the Great Wall of China.  

So after some saving and planning, we went on a 6-week trip to China – and we had a blast! 

I’ll admit, even though we were ‘just friends’ I had always been ready for more. But it was on this trip, that Tim started to see the light as well. Sometime after that, we officially became a couple. 

Now, after more saving and planning, we’re travelling the world together. We sold everything and have been travelling since December 2017.  

While his vision is significantly worse, and we travel a little slower, we’re still having a great time, exploring new places and making new friends. 

His blindness hasn’t kept us from seeing orangutans in Borneo or visiting stilt villages in Africa, but it has sometimes made those adventures a lot more interesting. So we travel, and we blog, and we hope to inspire other people to travel, too. You never know what, or who, you’ll discover.

By Trina of Team Hazard Rides Again

Love at Long Distances

My husband, Mike, and I have been travelling and living abroad since 2015. This amazing journey has allowed us to catch up on the time we couldn’t spend together in the early years of our relationship.

We first met in Washington, DC, where I was living, and Mike was stationed with the U.S Army. After an initial friendship, a long-distance relationship established while Mike was living on the opposite coast, and Mike’s 1-year deployment to Afghanistan, we had a few more false starts before finally getting married in 2011. Mike deployed to Iraq the week after our wedding, and when he returned, our time together was still limited by frequent business travel for both of our respective jobs.   

As we planned for Mike’s retirement from the Army, we started thinking about taking a year off to travel full-time, and we decided that the pros far outweighed the potential cons. It seemed like the perfect opportunity for us to take a break from the usual grind and would allow us to truly enjoy time together while writing a lovely, unique travel story.

So, in May 2015, we put all of our belongings in storage and set off on a journey that has led to round-the-world travel and more than 2 years living in Japan. Our “year” has turned into more than four. We are loving our experiences, living and travelling abroad, and we are grateful that we can finally be together without having to say goodbye at the end of each weekend!

By Stephanie Montague of Poppin Smoke

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