Justyna Ciupa brought her borderland openness and warmth to Poznań from her family town Sanok.Combined with her innate professionalism and traditional hospitality of Poznań, these traits give perfect characteristics of a tour guide.She is invariably interested in the world.As early as kindergarten, she kept asking "why", and even before she got involved in tourism, she had dreamt of distant lands.To make her dreams come true, she took up studies in tourism and recreation at Poznan University, and soon after that, she completed courses for a tour guide, a city guide in Poznań, and a guide on the Piast Route.Despite the passage of years, work is still a passion for her, but she also does her best to make people associate a tour guide with the nicest holidays and hours of great wandering through history, tradition, and entertainment.Therefore, she still deepens her knowledge not only about a city or a country to which she travels but also about relationships with other people in order to achieve her goals as best as she can.Hence, she has a variety of clients: from branch groups (journalists, university professors, guides from other cities), through young people and adults, to groups of persons with disabilities (blind, deaf, on wheelchairs).To better understand younger tourists, she completed a course for tutors and managers of recreation camps for children and youth.Since 2007, she has been running her own business under the name Marideo Travel Justyna Ciupa. And privately? Privately, she loves Berlin as she feels there at home.Year after year, she becomes increasingly a resident of Poznań, probably because she is taking on the traditional dishes of the region: “pyry z gzikiem” – baked potatoes with cottage cheese mixed with onion and chives.She is undergoing changes: lavender color slowly displaces the previously beloved blue.She satisfies her romantic nature, listening to Celine Dion’s songs.She cried reading "The kite runner" by Khaled Hosseini and she has a flair for adventures, so she often goes back to childhood books, especially those by Hanna Ożogowska and Astrid Lindgren.She guides tourists around Poznań willingly and passionately because she still treats that as a field to discover new places and facts.She thrives among the greenery of the Botanical Garden and the Old Market, where she could not choose between the Hill of Przemysł with the castle overlooking it and the cool, baroque interior of the parish church.Most willingly, she would take tourists to Bulgaria where she left her heart, to Portugal – love at the first meeting, or breathtaking Croatia.Where would she like to live? Of course, in Vienna, but with the Ukrainians whose warm, Slavic soul is so close to her own!