Meet Kristina & John

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Kristina Costalos

Journalist and Content Creator
5’4
Cancer
☕️ Iced chai latte
💌 Dancing
💌 Cinema with popcorn

We're Kristina and John, an Aussie TV journalist and airline pilot who swapped the newsroom for a life of full-time adventure.

We grew up in Adelaide, met in high school, and have pretty much been making plans together ever since. After uni on the Gold Coast, where Kristina studied communications and John got his pilot's licence before he was 21, life took us in completely different directions professionally.

Kristina spent over a decade as a TV journalist, reporting for the Nine Network and Network Ten across Darwin, Brisbane and Melbourne, covering everything from natural disasters to Royal visits and the F1 Grand Prix. While John was flying the B777 commercially, which meant international layovers and Kristina shuffling her roster to join him in LA or Abu Dhabi for a long weekend. That's really where the travel bug bit hard.

In 2021, after a gruelling Melbourne lockdown, Kristina quit her job at Network Ten. We bought a 50ft Jeanneau sailboat called Tucana with barely three weeks of sailing experience between us, and documented the whole adventure on YouTube. Somehow, people watched.

These days our channels have passed 30 million views, we've explored over 50 countries, and we've recently welcomed our daughter Chloe to the crew, who is, without question, the best travel companion we've ever had.

We share everything, the itineraries, the costs, the hidden gems and the honest reviews, so you can spend less time planning and more time exploring.

Thanks for being here. — Kristina, John & Chloe x

Airline Pilot
5’11
Sagittarius
☕️ Flat White
💌 Running
💌 Photography

John Tilley

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Let’s work together

With a global audience of over 250,000 Kristina’s Travels and Kristina Explores showcase adventure travel by land and sea.
From sailing through Europe to road-tripping across Northern Africa, Kristina and John take you behind the scenes of their wild,
bucket-list journeys to some of the world’s most interesting destinations on YouTube.

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If you’d like to collaborate, please request our media kit using the form below. We’re excited to create something special together!

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