Digital nomad
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Opinion: Columbia’s Saturday Trail, Best Women’s World Tour Pants
Even if I have become a digital nomad and do less treks, I still keep the habit of wearing technical clothes, like merino wool tops because they are very breathable. Some of my clothes are even water repellent. And in terms of design, we’re getting better and better. I used to wear Decathlon pants but I didn’t like the texture so I wore my cotton pants as soon as possible and reserved these cardboard pants for real treks. But it’s a shame because it means that there are pants sleeping in the backpack most of the time. And then, I discovered the Saturday Trail model at Columbia (from 31€, Amazon…
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Test & Reviews: AirPods 2 vs. 1 – Not that much difference
With the many conf calls and trips, I advised you to choose Airpods in my article “Computer Hardware for Digital Nomads“. I really appreciate these wireless headphones. Especially since with conf conf, I cook a lot more and I appreciate not having to carry wires everywhere. A few years ago, I gave you a review on the 1st generation Airpods here. After a few years of loyal service, its battery has become very bad and can only last about an hour (very insufficient to last until the end of a call). So I bought the 2nd generation Airpods. Airpods 2nd generation – The trap I recommend that you order online…
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My opinion on Whereby, easy and free videoconferencing service
In these times of coronavirus confinement, telework is exploding and the imposed social distancing makes people want to… see each other Videoconferencing is (finally!) developing massively, but you still need to know which solution to use. I have been teleworking full time for 4 years and I am used to using : Teams: Microsoft’s collaborative work solution adopted by my main client. I loved to hate Microsoft during my student years but I must admit that Teams is a great tool perfectly integrated to the Office suite. Hangouts Meet: Google’s solution that is perfectly integrated with Google Calendar and has the advantage (in the paid solution I use) of allowing…
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Review of 2019 – after 3.5 years around the world
The year 2019 marks the third year of our world tour and the second year of our life as digital nomads. This year, we set foot in many new countries (Portugal, Iceland, Canada, Bahamas, Mexico, Colombia, Panama, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala), in addition to the countries already visited (Morocco, France, United States). I have marked “set foot” because there are two countries where we stayed only a few hours (Honduras, Bahamas). After comfort and ease in Asia and Europe, we wanted to test digital nomadism in America : North, Central and South America. TOP 12 for the year 2019 See wild dolphins (in Florida and Mexico) We bathed in…
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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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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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Opinion on Ma Gestion Locative agency: renting your property from abroad
As we told you in this article, we took advantage of having a file that was still presentable at a bank to get into debt and make a rental investment just before leaving on a trip around the world. It was a project under the Malraux Law (rehabilitation of old buildings) which required heavy work. It is only 18 months after the signature that we recovered the keys. In the meantime, we had decided to continue to travel for an indefinite period of time, so it was essential to entrust the management of our apartment to a rental management agency. We were in a hurry for several reasons: We had…
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Being Digital Nomad in Nicaragua (Managua, Granada, Leon): Reviews & Speedtests
If you have followed us on the blog, you can see that this year we have chosen the two “dangerous” (in the collective imagination) of Central America to spend the fall: Nicaragua and El Salvador. These two countries are often avoided by tourists crisscrossing Central America (who visit Guatemala and then hop, hop, hop, go directly to Costa Rica). I admit (and I wish to be honest with you), the idea of going there scared me too. I already imagined blocked roads, stray bullets, civil war. Without the very reassuring advice and feedback from Lauriane, an expat who has been living in Central America for 2 years, I wouldn’t even…
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Being Digital Nomad in Bogotá (Colombia)
We spent about ten days in Bogotá, between two planes. The city is much less cool than Medellín but it is a very convenient transportation hub, to visit Cano Cristales or the Colombian Amazon. If you hesitate to come to South America, don’t hesitate any more because Colombia is very well adapted to digital nomads. Where to stay in Bogotá? We did not bother much, we booked a room in the hotel Vilar America(link Booking), which I highly recommend. It offers spacious rooms at 30€/night. Since we stay a long time, we were even upgraded in a huge room (50m ² ?) with kitchen. Luxury! With daily cleaning + buffet…
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2 months in Quebec (Canada) as a Digital Nomad
We arrived in Canada in May hoping to have a little better weather. But the winter lasted longer than expected and it was very cold when we arrived, the nice weather did not come back until mid-June. So we enjoyed Canada as locals, not as tourists. Here is a non-exhaustive list of what we have found, or things we have been told by French expatriates in Montreal. We went there to test the ground and see if we really want to settle there one day. The answer is no😀 Apartments that aren’t too expensive but difficult to rent by the month like a normal Canadian We rented 1 Airbnb in…
