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Ashlea Russell
Travel Writer & Content Creator, She Roams About/Truly Toronto
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About me

I'm a Northern Irish-Canadian travel writer and content creator with a knack for finding incredible experiences. I run a successful travel site focusing on memorable, authentic, safe travel around Mexico and am launching Truly Toronto, a travel site dedicated to helping travellers explore Toronto (and area) like a local!

Why did you join the community?

Travel is all about community, but working for yourself can be isolating. I joined the community to meet other people in the travel industry, make connections, and find opportunities.

What is your favorite travel destination?

My favourite places I've been are Lapland and Brazil, for very different reasons. Brazil was the first place I'd visited in Latin America solo and it really gave me my travel wings. The culture, food, and people made it a trip I'll never forget. And Lapland at Christmas is probably the most beautiful place I've ever been in my life.

Where do you dream of traveling to?

Japan is really high on my list for travel destinations. There's something super unique about the culture that I can't wait to explore.

What was your first travel job?

I was a wide-eyed 23 year old trying to make it in London when I fell into a job as a travel agent, and the rest was history!

What do you want to learn more about?

Everything! Whether it's travel, documentaries, magazines, memoirs, interesting people, I'm eternally inquisitive and can never learn enough.

Three words that describe why we should travel?

To surprise ourselves.

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