When you are a long term traveller or digital nomad there are a few things you should leave behind when you hit the road – but your hobby isn’t one of them. Keeping up with your hobbies and interests during long term travel is important and it will make you a happier nomad. By pursuing what you enjoy and making …
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There is an island in Thailand to suit every type of traveler, whether you are an adventure sports lover, a family, a young couple or someone just looking to party. Sometimes choosing one of these islands in Thailand to visit can be a little bit like Goldilocks sampling the bear’s porridge. This one is too hot. This one is too …
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I have found that routine is key for sticking to healthy habits, but when I am on the road my life is anything but routine. I find it very easy to stay healthy and fit when I am living in one place. I stock up on yogurt and granola and eat a few variations of the same healthy breakfast every …
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I was definitely one of those people. When I graduated from high school I told myself that I was going to start traveling. Every year since then, even through college, I told myself the same thing, but there was always an excuse about why I couldn’t. I always knew that I wasn’t going to live a traditional life; I just …
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In 2009 I went on a working holiday to New Zealand, thinking that I would only be gone for 6 months. Six years later I am still travelling and I don’t plan on stopping anytime soon. Sometimes travel goes beyond a short term trip and becomes a long term lifestyle. Travelling long term is an amazing experience and it allows …
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In 2009 I went on a working holiday to New Zealand, thinking that I would only be gone for 6 months. Six years later I am still travelling and I don’t plan on stopping anytime soon. Sometimes travel goes beyond a short term trip and becomes a long term lifestyle. Travelling long term is an amazing experience and it allows …
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Our lifestyle is pretty unconventional and as a result we get some strange and sometimes funny reactions from people we meet along the way. For most people, job and travel are completely separate. They work at a full time job to save up money, then they go on a vacation or a longer term travel adventure and have full time …
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I’m a freelance digital nomad travel writer and I love my job and my lifestyle. You’ll typically find me hunched over my laptop in hammocks, hostel kitchens and coffee shops from Buenos Aires to Bangkok to New Orleans – furiously typing stories about all of the amazing things I have experienced around the world. I have the freedom to work …
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If you look at any decent list of the things you need in order to get a good night’s sleep, pretty much every single one of them is compromised by living a nomadic lifestyle. It’s almost uncanny. And let’s face it – If you’re a knowledge worker, you owe it to yourself to look after your sleep. Lack of sleep dims …
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It’s the biggest cliché of the digital nomad lifestyle – the image of a laptop on a towel or sun-lounger on a beautiful tropical beach somewhere. These glossy images, which look almost like they come from holiday brochures, are plastered all over digital nomad lifestyle blogs. They glamorise the lifestyle and they make it seem like the digital nomad lifestyle …
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Work/life Balance is a much talked about concept recently and for good reason because of the impact that it has on productivity, health and quality of life. We are at our best when we have the right balance between work and play and excess in any way makes us either stressed and tired or bored and idle. There have been …
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In my opinion, one of the best things that you can do for yourself if you are an aspiring freelance writer is to start your own blog. It doesn’t matter what you write about or whether you are based in one place or location independent, the bottom line is that having a blog will give you many advantages in the …
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“Wow, you guys are so lucky to be able to travel the world.” We’ve heard a lot of people say this to us and while they are absolutely right that our lifestyle is amazing and we get to experience some truly wonderful things, it’s not luck which has brought us to where we are now. Although we are very fortunate …
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When we talk to our friends about our digital nomad lifestyle, they will often joke that we must have won the lottery to be able to afford our life of constant travel. It always shocks them to find out that we spend less money traveling now than we ever did when we were living in one place. How could it …
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Today my “office” is located in the UNESCO World Heritage city of Melaka, Malaysia. A few days from now, it will be in Singapore. Later in the week, it will be on the island of Borneo. I am a digital nomad and I never get tired of the view from my desk because it is always changing. You might have …
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So you want to become a digital nomad? The perks of the being a digital nomad are obvious; creating an income online allows you to pretty much live and travel to anywhere you want in the world. You will be able to set your own schedule and make your own rules. You can follow your dream of traveling to far …
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Just over a year ago we headed to Portugal for our Digital Nomad Experiment, to see if we could balance a true digital nomad lifestyle of traveling while working online. We learned a lot during those three weeks in the Algarve and one year later we are still constantly traveling the world on the income that I make as a …
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Do you want to explore another country for a longer period of time and have a deeper experience than a packaged two week holiday? Why not spend up to a year living and working abroad with working holiday visas? Working holiday visas generally allow a traveler to be employed in the country during their visit as a way of supplementing …
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Do you read travel blogs every day and dream of the long term travel lifestyle? Would you give everything to pack up your backpack and set out to travel the world for six months, a year, two years or even longer? Traveling long term is an amazing adventure and it will bring you many unforgettable experiences. However, there are also …
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One of the reasons that I love my job is because the view from my office is always changing. Sometimes it is palm trees swaying in the breeze on a street in a small coastal village in the Algarve region of Portugal. Sometimes it is trees and rivers and tranquil lakes rushing past the window of a train speeding through …
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