Before the round-the-world tour, we chose to keep our business to a minimum, since our dream, after the round-the-world tour, is to settle down somewhere in the world. With this in mind, storing our IKEA tea cups in a 100€/month room seemed inadequate to us. The chosen solution: sell/give a maximum, store a minimum with our relatives.

Before the round-the-world tour, we had to empty our apartment and resell almost all our belongings. For books, CDs, DVDs, we have tried different methods. We will list them here and recommend a plan of action if, like us, you want to empty everything at a reasonable price. For info, we were able to sell all our books & DVDs (even though we don’t have a crazy library), for 350€. Gibert stores Method : Either you go directly to the store: You show up at Gibert’s with your stock of books/CD/DVDs. In this case, you can be paid on the spot. Attention you must come with your identity card. Or…

Round-the-world tickets are sold by airline alliances(Star Alliance, One World, SkyTeam), by Air New Zealand or specialized round-the-world ticket agencies such as Travel Nation, Zip World or Connaisseurs du voyage The Rules You have between ten days and one year to use your round-the-world ticket In most cases, date changes (except the date of the first flight) are free of charge, as long as they are made a few weeks in advance, or even a few months for transatlantic or transpacific flights You must start and finish the world tour in the same country (not necessarily the same city) There is no minimum duration for each stop It is better…

The preparation of the round-the-world tour starts quite early (about 1 year before the departure date). This allows you to put money aside, but also to mature your project and make the necessary arrangements for the post-round-the-world tour. As for the purchase of tickets & hotel reservations, we did it only 3 months before the departure. In short, the two most important elements are: money & itinerary. When we made the decision to go around the world, all our daily habits were changed: No more compulsive buying To do this, I self-subscribed to the newsletters of the shopping sites. My main bank account contains only a minimum amount for my…

Did you manage to empty your apartment? (if not consult our article here), you will still have some administrative or online steps to do before your departure: – Termination of subscriptions. We called upon resilier.fr (see our article on this subject) to unsubscribe in 3 clicks from Autolib, gym, Gaumont-Pathé, EDF – Phone package: We changed our phone package to pay a minimum (5€) just to keep our phone line. You can still go to Free to pay even less (2€) – For the follow-up of the mail, we have called upon the Courier du Voyageur service which will scan all our mail and keep it until our return. At…

When I told my close friends that I was going on a backpack trip around the world, and that it wasn’t a joke, their reaction was unanimous: concern. Not because they don’t think I’m capable of letting go of everything, but because they don’t see me able to walk as much, and especially not with a backpack There follow attempts to prepare myself physically for this challenge: here’s my sports teacher’s number, here’s a discount for a gym, I’m walking in Paris, are you coming? What I’ve always said NO to, I was busier emptying the apartment, making appointments with the buyers on Le Bon Coin, than during the 3.5…