About This Project

I travel to understand how people connect. Not the tourist version. The real one.

I'm Rémi. French. The curiosity started in 2019 when I spent a summer crossing Russia, the Baltics, and Ukraine. Nine countries in a few months. Each border I crossed changed the social rules completely. The way people greet each other, share a meal, start a conversation, build trust. None of it was random. All of it was cultural.

I started taking notes. The notes became a project. The project became a way of traveling: with questions, with a notebook, with the intention to listen more than I speak.

Since then I've visited 41 countries, 132 cities, and had over 350 documented conversations about how people from different cultures think about connection, friendship, and relationships. I speak four languages fluently and I'm learning four more, because every new language opens a door that translation can't.

This project is an invitation. If you want to share your perspective on your culture, teach me something, cook something, run somewhere, or just have a real conversation over coffee, you're the reason this project exists.