2140“Bloemetjesbehang is flowered wallpaper in Dutch,” our subject Merit says in her audio clip. “When I was about 15 years old I went on a trip with my schoolmates and we had to describe each other as a product.

“One of my schoolmates described me like this. This is because she thought I was ‘in your face’ and overwhelming but then people got to know me better and were relaxed with it.”

Taken in Rotterdam, Holland, during the Travel Bloggers Unite conference.