Welcome to Derp’s Discoveries
Hello and welcome to our blog. We are Wendy and Mike from Manchester and for our honeymoon we went on an adventure around the world. We designed this blog as a platform for our friends and family to keep up to date about where we are and what we are doing. Hopefully, it will also inspire others to follow suit!
We will documenting our lives; where we go, where we sleep, who we meet and best of all, what we eat!
The honeymoon is over – but what a blast we had. You can read all about it on the blog.
What’s next? We’ll continue to travel to new places the best we can, but we have our first baby on the way (due date Feb 2020).
Who we are
Hello! I’m Wendy. I’m an EFL teacher by trade and as a result I’m a traveller. I love travelling, penguins, Batman, kickboxing and cheesy action films!
My main purpose of travelling is for the food. I can’t wait to try the many different types of exotic cuisines out there. I’m going to be eating my way around the world.
I’ve lived and taught in South Korea (2 years) and China (1 year)
I’m expecting our first baby Feb 2020.. will this be the death of travelling – surely not 🙂
And this is Mike. Mike left the corporate world (as a Pensions Actuary) to make an impact with his coding and product skills and co-founded ZBS CRM with the main driver being distributed work.
Mike now works for Automattic after ZBS CRM was acquired in July 2019. The best company he’s worked for to date.
When he’s not working he likes to play squash, go to the gym and loves eating. Since meeting me, he’s a lot more open to trying new foods so travelling to these far away lands will definitely be an eye opener!
Why travel?
Wendy: Ever since I moved abroad to do my first teaching job in China, I have loved travelling. From that moment, I have tried to travel as much as I can. After another expat stint in Korea, it was time to return back home to the UK and settle down to do the ‘grown-up’ things. I got my masters degree, a permanent job, a mortgage and even got married! I thought this ‘travelling phase’ would be out of my system by the time I had done all these things, but how wrong was I. I now want to travel more than ever. Luckily, I have managed to find a partner in crime who shares the same passion for travelling! We first decided to do an around the world trip when we were looking at places for our honeymoon. We wanted to visit so many places and do so many things that it wouldn’t be possible in a two week holiday, so we thought lets make it longer!
Mike: I just turn up and hope for the best. I have been told there will be good food and beer along the way. SOLD! 🙂
We are also bringing a special someone with us…
Introducing Derp…
Howdy! My name is Derp and welcome to my blog. I’m very excited about seeing what this world has to offer. I’ve already managed to travel to a number of places; Amsterdam, Barcelona, Ghent, Bruges, Paphos, Las Vegas, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Hiroshima, Kyoto, and Reykjavik. Unfortunately, I wasn’t invited to their Thailand trip (#forgotme), but all is forgiven since the blog is named after me!