AUTHOR
About the author:
My name is Joshua Laurin and I am an Orthodox Christian and traveling teacher.
I’ve tracked down the remains of Churches harkening back to the early days of Constantinople, I’ve nearly fallen off mountains driving to remote monasteries in Georgia, and I’ve taken the plunge on the Feast of the Theophany in Russia when it was -23 centigrade.
If there are ancient Churches to be found, remote monasteries to be visited, or local Orthodox customs to participate in, I’ll go for it.
After graduating from university in 2007 I wanted to find the experiences that textbooks could never provide.
On October 2008, at the age of 24, I left Canada with the intent on living in Japan for a year. One year turned into several affording me the opportunity to visit more than 30 countries.
While in Japan I was an ESL teacher walking in the footsteps of St. Nicholas. Meaning, I searched out the vestiges of everything that St. Nicholas established from the Church on the cusp of a hill in Hakodate to Nikolai-do in Tokyo.
A year and a half later I returned to Canada to get a teaching degree and then left to teach at an International School in Moscow Russia for four years. I spent my time traveling around Russia and much of Europe in search of Saints relics.
This travel blog is the fruit of these labours, so to speak.