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Review on the Société Générale Kapsul card: unusable for travelers
Société Générale announces with great fanfare the launch of a new map: the Kapsul map. Traditional banks must begin to panic as they see their customers gradually leaving for neo-banks with much lower rates and much more efficient services. Among the advantages of this new card: the absence of exchange fees when used outside the euro zone. That’s what appealed to me! For the travelers that we are, let’s see if the Kapsul map is relevant knowing that we will have to fight with : The foreign N26 and Revolut cards that we have been using for years The Boursorama Ultim card (which is a subsidiary of Société Générale!) The…
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Priority Pass: Test, Reviews, Price & promo code
To benefit from a 10% discount on Priority Pass offers, get a coupon code by clicking on this link. What is Priority Pass? Priority Pass is a program offering the widest access to airport lounges. Priority Pass provides access to 1,300 lounges in 600 cities in 148 countries. In concrete terms, if you are in an international airport, you are sure to have access to at least one airport lounge and often several. In addition to these accesses, Priority Pass allows you to benefit from : Discounts in restaurants, stores, spas, … in airports Buy “Priority Lane” lane cutters to avoid queuing at security and passport controls (available in very…
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Dangerous airlines: black list 2020
When traveling by air, one generally tries to find the cheapest flights possible. We’ve given you some tips on how to pay less by booking a round-trip instead of a one-way ticket or by paying in local currency. If you find a cheap ticket from an airline you have never heard of, take a few moments to check that it isn’t on the European Union’s airline blacklist. More than a hundred airlines are simply banned from flying over European Union countries because they do not meet international safety standards. If your airline is listed, it may be safer to choose another option. This black list is updated every six months…
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Nannybag: a Deposit Service all over the World (Review + Promo Code)
If you wish to use Nannybag’s deposit services, you will receive a 10% discount in – Click here. – Then by using the code 5CONTINENTS When traveling, you may need to store this luggage somewhere. The most classic case is certainly the few hours of waiting before / after a checkin / checkout in a hotel / airbnb. Our case is a little different: as a digital nomad, we live with our two suitcases and two small backpacks weighing a total of about 40 kilos. It’s both little (this is our business all year round) and a lot when we go on a road trip during which we change location…
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Convivio: a co-working in Oaxaca (Mexico) with a Wi-Fi at the top!
After almost 6 months of traveling across America (outside Canada and the USA) and juggling between Wifi, mobile connections and other phone solutions, the logistics of the job are starting to weigh me down. As you know (or not), we prefer to work in our home. That’s why we carefully choose our Airbnb to have an acceptable working space and try to get information about the speed of the internet connection. We were quite confident when we arrived in our accommodation in Oaxaca because the owner had been able to answer us: 30 Mb / s which is much better than what we are used to. Weary, we discover an…
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How to receive free SMS messages abroad? Telephone, Calls and Internet
This is a recurring question for people preparing a long trip abroad: how to continue to receive SMS? For people leaving for long months, the only need is often to be able to receive SMS messages from the bank to confirm a payment on the internet. If this is your only need, be aware that some banks such as N26 or Revolut do not work with SMS, the confirmation of the payment is done with the mobile application which is still much more convenient. Receiving SMS is free of charge anywhere in the world Not everyone necessarily knows it, but receiving SMS is free anywhere in the world.Wherever you are,…
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Wifi Analyser: Android application to measure the strength of the Wifi signal
When you arrive in a hotel room or an Airbnb accommodation, you don’t necessarily know where the Wifi terminal is located Even if you know where it is, the quality of the Wifi signal can be greatly reduced because of the thickness of the walls. It is therefore interesting to try toidentify the place where the signal is the best. Depending on this location, you will be able to place your computer or your wifi pocket that acts as a repeater in the optimal place. I particularly had this need in Guatemala where the walls of the house were particularly thick. I then discovered the free Android application Wifi Analyser,…
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Buy a cheaper airline ticket by paying in local currency
Interesting tip to pay cheaper airfares: put the price in local currency and see if the fare becomescheaper. What you need to know is that a plane ticket is charged in the currency of the country of departure Thus, a Paris – Istanbul will be invoiced in Euro and an Istanbul – Paris will be invoiced in Turkish lira. Usually you don’t see it because the company’s website will use your language and/or geolocation to convert the price into your own currency. This is where it becomes interesting since the company can convert : Using the real exchange rate (called the interbank exchange rate) By applying a small margin on…
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One-way flight more expensive than round trip: myth or reality?
While the vast majority of travelers book a round-trip airline ticket, there are cases where only a one-way ticket is required. This is our case as a digital nomad, we are constantly traveling around the world taking only one way trips. There is a myth that one-way tickets are more expensive than round trips, which seems surprising. Let’s take the example of a one-way Paris – New York, non-stop, on February 15, 2020. Search for a one-way ticket with a price comparator By using a flight comparator such as Skyscanner and sorting the results by increasing price, we’ll get there. The cheapest result offers the low cost airline Norwegian with…
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Travel outside the Euro zone: Money exchange & withdrawal
When traveling outside the euro zone, the question regularly arises: how will I pay on the spot? Where to change money to get local currency. Small article to introduce you to the different options and traps to avoid. Install an exchange rate application on your phone This is an indispensable practice, to be able to convert prices in local currency into euros. Exchange rates are set according to supply and demand on the financial markets and fluctuate 7 days / 7 24 hours a day. On an Android phone, the “Exchange Rate” application is fine. On iOS, you can use “XE Currency”. It will be useful for you, as much…
