About Me

As the formality requires it, let me introduce myself and why I'm blogging!

My name is Danail Alekov and I’m a citizen of the world by soul and a citizen of Bulgaria by passport. I was born and grew up in Sofia, the capital city, and still spend most of my time here. During the rest I do only one thing – travelling around the globe.

Just a few words about my professional carrier, since it‘s not related to this blog – I am an MBA graduate from Sofia University. I took some internships in the government institutions while studying. Now I am working as a consultant in the area of public procurements and tenders submissions.

Despite this job, I have always been a journalist – whether full-time, part-time or just a freelancer! I started in “Monitor Daily” newspaper in 2007 as an intern in Sports Department. On the next year I became a full-time reporter in “Classa Daily” newspaper for few months in Hi-Tech Department, before I enroll at the Sofia Univeristy . During my study years I worked as a part-time economics reporter in EconomyNews.bg. Working there helped me to gain a knowledge needed for my University exams so I was able to manage my free time for travelling across Europe.
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Then I started to travel more intense thanks to European Union funded programs for young journalists. I have participated in European Youth Media Days, Theaddress of Human Rights: Jorurnalism and many other projects by ‘Youth in Action’ Programme. During all these visits around Europe I met many young European journalists, expand my horizons, heard different stories and that’s how I started to write travel articles.
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After graduation, I started with my trips around Middle East, Southeast Asia and Australia, Latin America and Caribbean. In between of the travels, I am based in Sofia (Bulgaria) and Salvador da Bahia (Brazil), where I am running an export business. After a short break from journalism, I continued with travel stories and articles about the diversified world with stories from different places around the globe. I started to run my travel blog, make a presentations in Travelers Club Bulgaria and write articles for The Economist’s magazine Bulgarian issue (Списание „Икономист“ / www.iconomist.bg), 'Magazine 8' and others. I also made some media appearances in BiT Television and FM+ Radio. Here I will share these stories with you!

I hope you will enjoy reading this blog!
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