Hi, I'm Anja.

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I am a writer and one of the photographers behind The Mint Story blog. I created this space to share my travel and food stories, both from home and abroad. I like to travel slowly, observing local every day, tasting local food, making improvised stops and skipping places where there is a line of tourists involved (I will, however, queue patiently for good food). Travel to me is much more than ticking the check boxes of places I’ve been to, and my favorite travel memories are the ones when we allowed ourselves to take things slowly and just go with the flow.

I grew up in Zagreb, where I studied Art History and Spanish Language and Literature.

My favourite parts of the world are Italy and Japan. My goal is to explore each region of Italy, slowly, and with Japan, to explore lesser-known regions because, as it turned out, as farther away we went from the tourist hot spots, as kinder the people were, as peculiar the experiences.

In the near future, I’d love to marvel at the nature of Iceland and Scotland, drink beer in the Czech Republic, take a road trip down the US West Coast, try the street food in South Korea, wake up in a Morrocan riad, drive the dusty roads of the Spanish countryside and then stop for some tapas, have a foggy morning walk in Brittany and listen to the sound of wind and waves at the island of Ouessant. Those are, at least, some of the things I’d love to do.

Thank you for visiting this space, and if you have any questions or just want to say hi I’d love to hear from you!

Anja