Hannah Smith

Community Contributor

'- Hannah - Age 31 - Animal lover. Plant eater. Sunset lover. Predictably unpredictable. I am from Manchester, UK where I have been for the last 2 years (COVID you have a lot to answer for...) I run @lostnfoundtravel Instagram, which I started to inspire people just like me to hop on a plane and explore somewhere exciting, exotic or completely unknown. Before COVID I had been travelling solo for about 3 years and I have been fortunate enough to explore 34 countries. I love to travel slowly and have gone on working holidays in Australia and New Zealand and been part of volunteer projects in China, Kenya and South East Asia. I’m definitely a ‘yes’ person and try and experience as much as I possibly can when I travel. My adventurous side has persuaded me to jump out of a plane in New Zealand, ride a motorbike loop in Vietnam, go up in a hot air balloon in Myanmar and swim with elephants in Thailand. Travel is important to me because it has offered experiences I would never have experienced by staying in my comfort zone. I’m naturally a bit of an introvert so travelling alone to countries where I didn’t know a single soul was really challenging but also liberating. I ended up finding that I was more myself in those strange, unfamiliar situations than I was at home. I think when you only have yourself to rely on you have no choice but to just be yourself and do what makes you happy. This is why travel has become such an important part of my life.