Charles Kronsten

I was fortunate to travel a lot as a teenager with my family, and a couple of Wilderness safaris, plus a trip to Peru and the Galapagos, firmly ignited an almost all-consuming passion to travel.

At university, I went off to the Baltics, Central Europe and Central America during my holidays, plus studied abroad in Madrid, Spain for a year. After graduation, the only thing I wanted to do was travel. I solo travelled 30,000 kilometres overland all over South America from the southernmost city in the world, Ushuaia, in Argentina, all the way up to Panama, and then 22,000 kilometres (mainly) overland from Europe to Asia, starting in Finland and finishing in Indonesia.

I then headed out to Japan, and then China, where I worked, travelled extensively and learnt Mandarin, before coming back to the UK in 2022 to start working in travel and for Jacada.