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Hello @steemit @steemitblog - this is my first post! Hello to everyone!

I hope I am welcomed to this online community. I decided to join Steemit because I would like to share my experiences, adventures, life, videos and photos (including 360 degree and tiny planet photos and videos that I like to take and create).

I do this on other social media sites as I enjoy educating, entertaining and informing my followers, fans, friends and family about the things we get up to, the food we eat, the places we visit and the things that we/I learn everyday.

But, to be honest, I’ve got a bit fed up using these sites recently as I realise that big companies/businesses own them and I feel the original owners and content creators should receive at least some sort of small recognition and reward for their efforts when they upload things online.

So here’s some things about myself..

My name is David and I was born in the county of Cornwall, in the South West of England. I am now living in Sorocaba, Brazil. I moved to this country over 2 years ago to live with the person I love and we got married in 2018.

I decided to take this route, to leave my country behind and all that is familiar to me because it was an easier, fairer and faster process to come to Brazil, than it is for my wife to find a way to move to the UK and live there. This is because of the somewhat unnecessarily strict/difficult rules for British citizens who want to obtain a visa to be able to bring their foreign partners or loved ones who are from outside the European Union so they can live together in the UK.

I met my wife many years ago online, in 2007, where we met each other randomly on a social or chat website. My aim on this website was to learn more about different countries and cultures, while my wife wanted to improve her English at that time. We got to know each other over a period of time (years) and discovered we had so much in common, including some coincidences and similarities in our lives.

Surprisingly, we didn’t meet each other until 2014, when my wife decided to fly to England on her holiday. We had a great time exploring the UK together and she tasted and experienced the British culture, food and visited many places - it was a great adventure! But of course she had to leave and return back to her job and country. We didn’t know when we would see each other again. It was so heartbreaking!

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After discovering the difficulties and details of trying to find a way to be or live together, something that would last significantly longer than just a holiday period, over the course of 4 years, we seen each other 10 times. Everytime we said goodbye at the airport, through the tears and farewells, we didn’t know when we would see each other again.

So eventually we decided we had to find a way to be together and in January 2018, I made plans and the decision to leave my country and move to Brazil, with the intention of getting married and living in the country.

…And that’s how I found myself here.

I hope you follow my blog, read my posts, view and watch my photos and videos and follow me to join me/us on my/our adventures :)

Thanks for reading this post and if you have any hints and tips about how to use utilise and use steemit correctly and effectively, then let me know and comment below and I can read it.

Cheers / obrigado!

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