Tea Tougaard

19/04/2024

Look How much a simpel color edit can transform the magic and energy of a photo 🌈📸

This morning I took some Amazing photos of myself with the sunrise and the hot-air ballons in the sky in Cappadocia, Turkey.

While the colours look Amazing to the eyes, the camera dont really capture it - so I like to do a little color edit to bring out the true colours of the photo.

But i Also like to play with the colours. Just look How I’m changing the colours of my dress.

As you can see on the original picture I only edit the colors (and hide my sneakers) in the photos. Not other edits are applied…

⚠️But what do you think? Is it cheating to edit the colours or is it totally fine to make a photo more colourful?

18/04/2024

9 years ago vs now 😮

📸 1, 3 & 5 from 2024
📸 2 & 4 from 2015

9 years ago me and Taner went to Cappadocia together for the frist time. We were so young back then 😅. We were together for 4 years, broke up for 4 years and are now back together again.

Now We Are married, run different companies, have build a house together - and gone back to Cappadocia to have a holiday like 9 years ago.

It is amazing to look back and then look to look where we are now ❤️ 🤴

12/04/2024

Another “I dont want normal photos with my husband” Day, except the last photo, gotta have something for the Christmas cards 😂 This time from Cappadocia 😍 🤴

07/04/2024

Married life is little bit of 😵‍💫 and 😘.
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21/01/2024

26/12/2023

Nedtællingen til nytåret er igang 🎉 og her kan du lærer at sige "Godt nytår" på 25 forskellige sprog 🌎.

For at bygge lidt videre på sidste års artikel, har jeg i år lavet en liste med "Sådan siger du "Godt nytår" på 25 forskellige sprog".

25/12/2023

Skal du holde nytår i Alanya? 😍

Jeg har samlet en personlig guide til dig, så du får de bedst mulige forudsætninger for at kunne holde nytår i Alanya og få verdens bedste overgang ind i det nye år! 🎉

Her er 6 gode grunde til at holde nytår i Alanya, gode råd til nytår i Alanya og skønne steder at fejre nytår i Alanya.

24/05/2023

Bloggen har ikke været så aktiv længe - Det har mig liv tilgengæld.

Dette indlæg er mit forsøg på at kickstarte bloggen og samtidig deler jeg nogle meget personlige ting om hvad jeg har lavet det sidste 1,5 år.

Jeg håber i vil tage pænt imod indlægget ❤️

Utrolig mange ting er sket i mit liv og jeg har gerne ville dele det, men tiden har ikke været der. Det er den nu så her er en update;

14/01/2023

As part of my river cruise on the Danube River, I had a day off in Budapest, Hungary.

I start the day with Milos from the ship Der Kleine Prinz and together we explore the market hall, The Dohány Street Synagogue, the flea market and one of the ruin bar.

After lunch, I continue on my own and take the tram to the Hungarian Parliament, on to shoes on the danube bank and end the day at St. Stephen's Basilica.

And all of that together, is what this video of What to do in one day in the Pest part of Budapest, Hungary is all about.

27/12/2022

Is Christmas over? Well in Rotterman in the Netherlands it is always christmas with this unique Santa Claus.

The paid 118.000 € for it and have had to move it countless times, because PEOPLE HATE IT.I LOVE THE SANTA CLAUS sculptur, build by Paul McCarthy in 2005 and...

11/10/2022

I travel all summer - and working at the same time.

❤️ This year more of my work has been as a freelance tourleader for 2 travel agencies, that hire me on a regular basis, because of my big knowledge about specific countries and types of travel (in this case river cruises, which I spent 62 days on this year, while seeming some of Europe’s most amazing cities)

❤️ While doing that I also work with my own affiliate projects (meanly websites) which provide a steady income in the side all year around.

❤️ I also take care of different companies social media. All of that can be planned head, so it runs smoothly, while I focus on exploring the cities I’m in while traveling ✈️

08/10/2022

Sometimes I just need to work all Day long when I travel, and Thats why instagram dont get updated 🫣

It was been 3 countries the last 3 week; Georgia, Armenia and now Greece. Georgia and Greece was for my job as a tourleader, Armenia was to explore solo.

This video is from the Beautiful pink sunset I had Yesterday in the historic city of Delphi 🙏

06/10/2022

SOOOO I changed the name from Two Cultures to my own name: Tea Tougaard

I felt like Two Cultures no longer was fitting for what my video channel has turned into over the last 2 years and since I am the main charcter in my own videos (Which I film, edit and publish) then why not just do it in my own name - So everyone can find me!

I hope you will all welcome this small change

06/10/2022

💦 We waited months for rain on the Donau and finally Budapest got it. So why not dance in the rain.

28/09/2022

11 countries visited in August, while sailing on the Danube River (7 countries) and Rhine River (4 countries) 🛥 29 days of sailing and I could easily do 21 days more as a Tourleader 👩🏽‍💼
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24/09/2022

Kakheti is know as the wine region of Georgia 🇬🇪 but it is also a place with beautiful mountains and amazing sunsets 🌅

I’m traveling around Georgia for almost 2 weeks, and never have I been so bad at posting Instagram stories - I guess it will all be posted when I’m done with my tourleader job and feel like being online again 🤷‍♀️

20/09/2022

Löwendenkmal, also known as Lion Monument in Luzern, Switzerland, is one of the cities too attraction’s!

It is designed by danish Bertel Thorvaldsen and hewn in 1820–21 by Lukas Ahorn.

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18/09/2022

I spent this summer Travelling in Europe - any ideas for how I should spend my winter?

18/09/2022

The romantic Rhine is also romantic in Rain 🌧

Whats is the romantic Rhine? Let me tell you, traveller to traveller:

The romantic Rhine is a popular name for the Upper Middle Rhine Valley, which is a 65 km section of the Rhine river between the city of Koblenz and the city of Rüdesheim in Germany. It is Also know as the prettiest part of the Rhine River.

It is the Castello that make this section so romantic. Castles on the Rhine were mainly built between the 12th and 14th Centuries as defence strongholds and toll houses – and over 40 punctuate the landscape on just one 65km stretch of the Middle Rhine Valley.

The Rhine Valley is also famous for wine, and this section of the Rhine along with its tributaries the Mosel and Nahe cover a total 5 of Germany's 13 officially recognized wine regions. And the wine is goooood!

09/07/2022

SHOULD YOU BUY YOU SUITCASE AFTER COLOR? NO ⛔️❗️

Just said goodbye to the big pink suitcase from L.C.Waikiki after using it for 2 days! It was absolutely impossible to drive with and walking 450 meter in Copenhagen took me 20 minuts and a heart attack!

When I came to Bukarest I was ready to throw it into the Danube river, BUT customer Tom unfortunately dident get his suitcase in the airport (and never got it on the tour) so him and his wife had to shop different things during our 11 days cruise. I offered them to take the big pink suitcase to get the stuff home, and then after that, they can do with it whatever they want.

In Budapest I bought a beautiful turquoise suitcase for 3x what I normally spend on a suitcase, but now I also expect it to be my new best friend, because 8 tours are still in the calendar before Christmas!

This photo is me and Tom in Vienna airport. I told him to wear the suitcase with pride, but he is not a 100% comfortable with it. Personally I love this photo ❤️

Next up is 1 week in Denmark and then 8 days ocean cruise in Norway 🇳🇴 with my new suitcase!!!

29/06/2022

HOW DO I DO 13 COUNTRIES IN 2 MONTHS 🌎?

For me it is work, but the “secret” to the high number is I am sailing 🛥 the European rivers Danube (Donau) and the Rhine. Together they give me 11 countries.

Danube takes 11 days to sail and covers 7 countries and 5 capitals.

The Rhine takes 8 days to sail and covers 4 countries and 1 capital.

Besides that I’m going to Denmark to enjoy some summer with my family and also sail an ocean cruise to Norway for work, but my family is joining the trip, so it will not all be work ❤️

For sure it is as hard as it is amazing 🤩 It is work, and the worst days I wanna jump in the rivers. But on the best days I’m drinking rosé at sunset in Budapest and not many can do that and call it work.

What I’m trying to say is, life as a tour leader is work, but I would never exchange it for a office job where it get to go home when the day finish.

08/05/2022

Happy mothers Day to all mother and especially my amazing mom, who is the best woman in the world ❤️

04/05/2022

HOW I ENDED UP IN GREECE?

After coming Home from a saturday out and about in Alanya, I went to check My e-mail. One of the agencies a worked for had written a “Code red” 🛑 e-mail to all tourleader that Can Lead in Greece, including me. The e-mail wrote “Can you be in Greece 🇬🇷in 12 hours to run a tour for 12 days?”

I checked if there where flights and responded “if you Can have me in Saravejo 🇧🇦 before 15.00 on the 5/5, I Will go” and then I started packing, empty our My guestroom so My friend could use it, threw water at My plants 💦 and emptied my fridge for food. Never have hardcore organisation skills been put so much to use!

4 hours later I was in a airport transfer and 2 flights ✈️ later I landed in Thessaloniki before my guest arrived from Denmark!

And then started 12 days of double work: Daytime I was tour leader and organiser, so they would get a amazing holiday. Evening time was all the online work I also do, on sh*tty hotel internet.

And like said in my conditions to go, I’m now on my way to Sarajevo, so I’m there before 15.00 on 5/5.

I don’t mind work being a little crazy sometimes to solve some problems, but I get that the people around me have a hard time understanding where I am when.

20/04/2022

I WALKED 100+KM

I’m back in Alanya after 10 day days of hiking in Cappadocia and a 13 hour bus trip. In those 10 days I walked more then a 100+km.

No secret that I’m not a professional hiker, I more a “walk around and stop to look at pretty things” kind of traveller. So this trip was a great challenge for me. And turns out I LKE IT!

It was also the first tour as a tourleader in what’s going to be a crazy crazy travel-work-year all around the world.

Now I have about 3 weeks in Alanya and after that I’m going Bosnia, sailing the Danube river, sailing the Rhine, going on a ocean cruise to Norway and so so much more. Updated list with me travels will be posted soon!

08/04/2022

MADE IT TO CAPPADOCIA ⛰

After 8 hours in bus we arrived to a sleeping Cappadocia around 07.20. Hot air ballons where cancelled today, so it felt like the city sleept in for the day.

We couldn’t check in early, so we just left our bags (believing no one Will steak then and no one did) and then we went out into the landscape. Starting with a walk up to the super famous Göreme open air museum. Opens at 08.00, we arrived at 08.03 and had the whole place to YOURSELF! (See story for how filled it normally is)

After that we choose to get lost and found this hole in the wall - I love the photos, that do you think?