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CitiBike: the self-service bike rental service in Miami (USA)
In Miami and Miami Beach, CitiBike offers self-service bike rentals, a system similar to what Velib can offer in Paris for example. Cycling is really the ideal means of transportation to get around Miami Beach, a pedestrian and bicycle road runs along the beach from north to south and there are many bicycle paths on the other routes. It can be used in two ways: With a subscription, you will need to get a pass Without subscription, a credit card is sufficient CitiBike’s service is really great, there is a huge density of stations and it’s rare to make two blocks without seeing a station. The bikes are in very…
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Passing immigration to the United States when you are a digital nomad
I have promised you an article on the famous immigration to the United States. It went very well for us in Washington DC even though 2 of the 5 people in line in front of us were brought to “interrogation” rooms by an immigration officer. On a FB group reserved for digital nomads, some (especially one person) had problems coming to the United States with a passport filled with stamps, showing that they are traveling permanently (1h30 of questions and answers). And speaking with the French people living in Canada, who during their trip were kept for an hour of interrogation at the border, we thought it was absolutely necessary…
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Test & Review of the Digidom direct debit service
After discovering this article, Digidom kindly proposes to the readers of this article a 20% discount code on their services. You must contact them by e-mail (support AT digidom POINT pro) indicating that you come from the blog “around the world 5 continents”. For several years, I used the services of ABC Liv for the domiciliation of my company. In addition to the simple direct debit service, ABC Liv received and forwarded my mail. I was satisfied with the service but I was a little annoyed by their policy of automatically increasing the rate every year. The rate that was very competitive when the contract was signed was becoming less…
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Transfer photos from your SD card to an iPad or iPhone using an adapter
Currently in Miami, we are about to leave for 15 days of road trip by car throughout Florida. We will never sleep two nights in a row in the same place and we didn’t see ourselves leaving all our computer equipment in the car for 15 days. We thus decided to leave it in a locker in Miami. We wondered how to store the photos and videos that we were going to take because we are sure-equipped: a drone, a camera and a waterproof camera There is a very simple solution, an SD card adapter that allows you to download the contents of an SD card to an iPhone or…
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Drimsim: the best international SIM card (review + promo code)
If you want to test DrimSim, go through this referral link, you will get a 10 € bonus on your first upload: https: //drimsim.app.link/n2cdwwRP6V When we arrive in a country, one of our priorities is to have access to the internet with our phone. This will allow us to book a Uber, find a public transportation route, communicate via WhatsApp, … A lot of very practical things 🙂 There are generally two scenarios: The country where we arrive is covered by our Free Mobile subscription. In this case there isn’thing to do, we use the internet thanks to our French SIM card. The country isn’t covered by Free Mobile, so…
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How to wash your clothes during the round-the-world trip
It was one of the practical questions I asked myself before the round-the-world trip, without really having satisfactory answers. Bringing few clothes with us, we have to wash our clothes often, but where, how and how much does it cost? We soon realized that we had to combine several methods: wash by ourselves, give to our hotel or give to a laundromat. Wash the clothes ourselves In many hotels, you may not find a large sink or bucket to wash your clothes. Washing your clothes by hand several times a week quickly becomes tiresome and damages your hands. To make it easier for us, we bought a“portable washing machine“, the…
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What to do / Visit New York in 1 week ? 25 Ideas for your First Trip
We asked Berengere C. the New-York specialist (we wonder if she wouldn’t have an unlimited Paris-New-York travel card), her “little list” of things to do in New-York in one week for First-timers, and here is her answer. Don’t hesitate to follow Berengere on Instagram to discover hidden corners in New York (or elsewhere): https: //www.instagram.com/berencnt/ The essentials Top of the Rock & One World Observatory Top of the Rock, the Rockefeller Center observatory – 67th floor: US$41.53OneWorld Observatory, the observatory at the One World Trade Center – the highest observatory in New York – 100th floor: US$42.46 Both are to be done because the view is really different. Top of…
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Days 6 & 7 in New York (USA): High Line, Elevated Acre, Wall Street, Statue of Liberty…
Day 6 : Today, we still get up late – because of the heat and fatigue accumulated over the last few days (cf. days 1&2, day 3, days 4 & 5). We start the day by buying one of the best Vietnamese sandwiches in New York at Sau Voi. Even the baguette is crispy, and it’s cheap (if I remember correctly 6$). It’s also the place where I can find my favorite Vietnamese snack: nem chua. They sell a lot of other Vietnamese specialties. Very good address in China Town. With our sandwiches, we head to the Financial District in search ofElevated Acre, a haven of peace between two skyscrapers,…
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Days 4 & 5 in New York (USA): locations for Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Gossip Girl, Sex in the City…
That’s it, after only a few days (cf. days 1&2, day 3), I got a little sick because of the air conditioning. Everything we did in two days below can be grouped in one day (for healthy tourists). The first time we set foot in NYC in 2015, every 10 minutes, we said “ohhh it’s like in the movies”. From the yellow cab to the skyscrapers, the subway, the places, the people… it’s so familiar but strange at the same time. It’s like going to a place you’ve always known – without having been there. My vision of New York has been long influenced by watching very girly series like…
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Day 3 in New York (USA): One World Observatory, Memorial 9/11 and Brooklyn
To reread the 1st part of our trip to NYC, it’s this way Today we went to One World Observatory, the observatory of the One World Trade Center skyscraper, built next to the former Twin Towers and inaugurated in 2014. I realize, by looking at the pictures that this tower is “camouflaged” but in reality we can see it very well and not confuse it for the sky 😀 Right next to it is a shopping center (with the white fish-bone shaped tips) called the World Trade Center. The two Twin Towers locations became two giant fountains/ditches: “north pool” and “south pool”, where the names of all the victims are…
