Jil Eileen in interview: About her most dangerous experience, her trip through Germany + savings tips

Jil Eileen in the interview – She is one of the top travel influencers in Germany and inspires daily with impressions of your travels and your life. Jil is always on the hunt for new adventures and wants to show how precious life and how beautiful the world is. With her positive nature and passion for travel, she inspires her community every day and lets them share her life on Instagram and in her blog. We talked to her to find out more about you and your passion. What she has already seen and experienced, which was her biggest and most dangerous adventure and what she experienced on her trip through Germany, you can find out now!

Jil Eileen: Her life traveling around the world

FIV: As you can see in your Instagram feed, you have already seen and traveled to many countries. Which of these destinations have you liked the most so far?

Jil: Phew that’s a very difficult question, I’ve already been to 63 countries and each one had something special in its own way. I couldn’t decide where I liked it best, I would go to every country I’ve been to again.

FIV: On social media and on your website, you talk almost exclusively about travel. How did you get into this passion? What excites you most about travel?

Jil: I have always been very adventurous and loved to learn about new places, cultures and people. In 2018, I quit my job and went out on my own with a backpack to travel the world. Even before that, I’ve always scheduled my days off and vacations to travel as much as possible but once I traveled full time the ‘addiction’ hit me. What excites me most about traveling is to discover new places, to feel the freedom and to be myself.

“Happiness is the only thing that doubles
when you share it, so why not share the
what makes me happy share with you!”

Traveling on a budget? – Jil’s experiences & your money saving tips

FIV: You are only 26 years old and still very young. How do you finance your many trips? How frugal are you and do you have any tips for our readers on how to travel the world inexpensively?

Jil: For my year solo world trip I have saved well in advance, I had 3-4 jobs at the same time and was really hardworking. Accordingly, I could always put money aside. It is very important to always keep in mind that ‘little things make a mess’. This is true when saving and also when spending. Before you save nothing, save at least something. Then it takes longer until you reach the target amount, but you still reach your goal. And when spending it is exactly the other way around, if I think with every little thing ‘oh that’s only 5€’ then that can be quite a lot at the end of a trip. I always write down every € I spend on my trips to have a look at how much the trip has cost me so far. If I have budgeted well then I can also treat myself, if I have not budgeted well then I can also eat only oatmeal for 3 days 😛 Meanwhile I am self-employed and can live from my travel blog and my online store, instead of working hard and saving in advance I travel now and work during.

A day with Jil: mountains or pool?

FIV: What does a perfect day on vacation look like for you? Are you more of an active person or do you prefer to take it slower? Chilling by the pool or climbing in the mountains? What type of vacation are you?

Jil: I am the active traveler, I love to go hiking, climbing in the mountains, surfing at the sea & have so many ‘bumblebees in my butt’ that I always want to do something. Of course I also like to lie by the pool or the sea but that’s the
tends to happen between activities.

Travel adrenaline rush: dangerous hike in Hawaii

FIV: What has been your most exciting experience on your travels so far? Was there ever a particularly exciting event or maybe you did an extraordinary activity? Paragliding, bungee jumping or something like that?

Jil: I have experienced many things while traveling but the first activity that comes to mind is a hike in Hawaii. The Olomana Trail, also called ‘Three Peaks ‘. A very dangerous hike that gave you an absolute adrenaline rush.
and just damn fun even though you have come to your own limits.

Germany tour: route, tips & what the country has to offer

FIV: A few months ago you did a tour through Germany together with your boyfriend. How did you come to this idea and how did you plan the tour? Was there a fixed route or did you set off spontaneously?

Jil: We have seen so much of the world but not of our own country. We wanted to change that and so we did a lot of research and looked at what Germany has to offer. We have thought about a route in advance and are then the places we have picked out. I was sometimes with my friend on the road but also sometimes with girlfriends.

FIV: Tell us something about this tour. What destinations did you go to and what sights did you want to see? Would you have thought that Germany has such beautiful places to offer?

Jil: I must confess, I underestimated Germany!!! I never thought in my life to see such great places in my own country. We were hiking at the Mosel, in the Black Forest and in the Palatinate Forest, at Lake Constance we discovered stand up paddle for us, at the Eibsee in Bavaria we were swimming in the lake and in Saxon Switzerland we couldn’t get out of the amazement. With 25 years I have then also made it the first time to the German sea 😛

Vacation in the car? – live and sleep in a confined space

FIV: As you can see in your Instagram feed you went camping and slept together in the car. What was it like for you to live in such a small space? Would you repeat that and recommend it to others?
Jil: For me it was no problem, you just get to know each other better and thus welds more together. We have our car a little equipped with a topper on which we slept, curtains hung on the windows to be able to darken it a little and to have privacy and decorated it a little cozy. Otherwise, of course, we had a gas stove and everything you need for camping 🙂 In the beginning or to get out spontaneously, the car is the perfect alternative. In the meantime, we have expanded a van, moved in there and travel through Europe.