2208“I am from Brazil, and this means ‘Close your eyes and jump’. It was told to me by a good friend of mine, he’s a lawyer in his 70s and he’s kind of a mentor to me.

“I was about to make a decision to go to the United States to work and he told me this, and that I was thinking too much. Ten years later I’m in the United States, it was like the best decision that I ever made. It was a turning point.”

Our subject, Claudia Saleh, has a travel blog and magazine. Taken in Rotterdam, Holland, during the Travel Bloggers Unite conference.