Around the world
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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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My Fav massages, facials thermal baths, hammam and cosmetic stores in Seville (Spain)
Having been a stress of life, I have gotten into the habit, since I have a salary, of going regularly to an institute to relax: massage, sauna, hamma, facial care… I love it! Now that stress is no longer a permanent state for me, I still continue to be pampered, even when I’m travelling around the world In general, I’m used to going to institutes run by Asians: the prices are softer, and the massages are often more energetic and more precise (the acupuncture points all that, it’s no joke). However, the Asian population in Seville is close to nothing, so we’ll go to the local institutes instead. I warn…
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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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Vietnamese people not warm, friendly, smiling, nice, unpleasant? Disappointed by Vietnam?
I often hear on travel sites or travel forums that Vietnamese people are less nice/healty/friendly/smiling/honey/kind/welcoming than Cambodian/Thai/laotian people (cross out the useless mention)… OK, everyone has their own feelings. But let them then say that it hurts them, disappoints them… because yes, they expect the Vietnamese to welcome them with a smile up to their ears and shout “thank you for being here, thank you thank you thank you!” Then there… It makes me laugh… yellow. As a Vietnamese woman, I want to dot the i’s and cross the t’s. Imagine a second. For more than 1000 years, your country has been invaded by China and by a miracle, your…
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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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Review of our 6 months as Digital Nomads
Ohlala, time flies! It’s already been 6 months that we travel and work at the same time. I find that time passes much faster when we work (even part-time) than when we are 100% unemployed (like during the world tour).In 6 months, we put our suitcases in 6 countries, i.e. 1 month/country. It was too fast!I thinka month and a half per city and country, at least, will be much more reasonable. And then, we quickly understood that we don’t like big cities anymore (Bucharest for example, has finished us off) => in the future we will prefer nice small towns and avoid capitals if possible. Seville meets these criteria:…
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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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Seville (Spain): the continuation of our adventure
I told you about our first days in Seville. The more I spend my time here, the more I love the city and Spain. The city is big enough to get lost in its small streets, but small enough to do everything on foot gastronomy We continue our gastronomic discovery. There are so many good tapas bars that we can’t get enough of them We finally discover the Antigua Abaceria tapas bar in San Lorenzo, recommended by our airbnb owner. The atmosphere is very local, there are always people, the decoration is from another time. We are placed in the kitchen so we see the cooks preparing the dishes and…
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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…
