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Prepaid 4G SIM card in Thailand: how much does it cost? Where to buy it?
Where to buy a prepaid SIM card at the Bangkok airport? After passing through immigration, collecting your luggage and going through customs, look for a store that offers prepaid SIM cards. The most visible store is the one of the operator TrueMove H but there are competing stores not too far away. Where to buy a prepaid SIM card in the city? SIM cards are also available in 7 Eleven, Tesco Lotus, Fresh Mart and FamillyMart stores. There are 7 Eleven stores everywhere and they are open 24 hours a day. EDIT: With a friend who arrived late in Bangkok, we made several 7 Eleven to try to buy a…
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How to rent a bank safe deposit box?
Going around the world and becoming a digital nomad also means adopting minimalism. Before we left, we separated 90% of what we owned and gave the few remaining boxes to the family. However, there were still some very important assets and documents that we couldn’t afford to lose or destroy, even though we trust our family, it is too important to take any risks. So we deposited them in a safety deposit box at the bank. Renting a bank safe deposit box? It’s like a spy movie, like Jason Bourne who goes to retrieve fake passports, cash and a weapon in a Swiss bank safe. It is however a classic…
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Test and review of the XD Design Bobby backpack
During our world tour we each had a backpacker’s backpack: the Osprey Mira AG 26 for Anh and the Gregory Baltoro 65 for me.We both had a small backpack that we could roll up and put in our pocket. They had the advantage of taking up no space and weighing nothing at all. However, they were not very comfortable to carry and had a very small capacity.With our new life as digital nomads, we move less regularly and have abandoned our backpackers bags and moved on to suitcases.For our booster bags, Anh got her Longchamp bag back and I invested in a new bag.The XD Design Bobby backpack is the…
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Car rental in Andalusia (Spain): test and opinion of Goldcar
While being in Seville, we wanted to take a 4-day excursion to discover Andalusia.The question of car rental and the choice of company then arose.In Seville, there is a choice. The giants of the sector are present: Avis, Hertz, Sixt, Europcar, …But also low cost rental companies (Alamo, Goldcar, …).There are two rental hubs, one at the airport and one at the train station.Low-cost rental companies offer unbeatable prices, but the reviews on the internet are scary and many people are screaming for scams of fraud.Renting a car is always a bit anxious because the car rental company takes a bank imprint of your card and can “use” it in…
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Spanish breakfast: Tostadas / Molletes and Churros
In France, we have a traditionally sweet breakfast.If this diet did not cause me any problems during my childhood, when I became an adult, it no longer suited me: stomach ache, digestion problems, I stopped eating breakfast in the morning for years.It was only recently that I realized that a salty breakfast was much better for me. Egg on the plate, cheese or ham have therefore replaced cereals, jam and buns.During our world tour on 5 continents, I had the opportunity to experience several types of breakfast.I have a weakness for the Vietnamese soup Bún riêu (I’ll have to tell you about it…) cooked by the shopkeeper who is always…
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Testing and Reviews of the Ultimate Ears ROLL 2 Portable Bluetooth Speaker System
After a year of world tour during which every object and every gram in our bags was meticulously studied, we became nomads.If our new life as nomadic workers always requires us to be as minimalist as possible, we now allow ourselves a few extras. Indeed, the weight of our bags is less critical when we move “only” every month rather than moving every 2 or 3 days.We have therefore allowed ourselves the acquisition of a bluetooth speaker. We like to work with music, watch movies or listen to podcasts and the sound quality of a laptop is particularly poor.Ideally I would have liked to have the famous Bose speaker (Bose…
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Test and advice of the ABC Liv corporate domiciliation service
When you create a company and you don’t have an office, the question of the address of the head office arises.Domiciliating your company at home is a solution but not necessarily the ideal way to have a minimum of separation between your professional and private life: you will receive your professional mail in the middle of your personal mail, your postal address will be on all sites such as societe.com, infogreffe, ..For my part, it was the fact that we were planning to move that bothered me the most: I had no desire to have to manage (and pay for) the steps of a head office transfer.So I started looking…
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Nomad Digital and Tax Resident in France
At the end of our 11-month world tour, we decided to leave our salaried jobs for good to become self-employed and continue to travel while working for a living. The objective is for us to design our ideal lifestyle, to work to live and not to live to work while waiting for retirement. We live in an incredible time where borders almost no longer exist (for lucky people like us who have a French passport), buying a plane ticket is done in 3 clicks, the same goes for renting accommodation on Airbnb, .. In short, beyond the psychological barrier, being digital nomad has never been so simple and you can…
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Shooting range session in Prague (Czech Republic)
I didn’t have to totally finish growing up: playing with guns amuses me The first time I had the opportunity to use a firearm was in Vietnam, during our visit to the Cu Chi tunnels. There it was downright Disney Land: you buy M16 or AK47 bullets in the souvenir store between the postcard stand and the “I love Vietnam” T-shirts No security briefing, we give our bullets to an instructor who loads the weapon, gives it to us and indicates a distant target to aim at It lasts 5 minutes, it’s quite exhilarating when it’s the first time a live-fire shot but it’s also frustrating, no way to know…
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How to get a French (virtual) phone number from abroad?
Preamble: I don’t like the phone! It’s quite paradoxical, I’m a hyper-connected person: depending on the interlocutor and the context, I can be reached by email, Skype, Facebook, Slack, Twitter, WhatsApp, Hangout or Appear.in. But I don’t like the phone. I find the phone hyper intrusive and it makes me jump every time it rings. When the phone rings, you MUST instantly stop everything you are doing and rush to answer it, I hate it. If on top of that it’s an unknown number, chances are it’s advertising or some kind of bullshit. If the call is scheduled in advance, no worries. I recently read an article that reassured me,…
