Setting up a Life You Don’t Need to Escape

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One of my favourite quotes on the left by Seth Godin The first question I think a lot of people would ask is… How do I set up a life I don’t need to escape? But, really when you think about it, only you can answer this. Nobody knows the answer apart from you and [...]

Being In Competition With Nobody

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Competition is something that is bred into us from a young age. It is there in our parents when we were small. It is exists between brothers/sisters. It is forced at school and it carries on into our adult working life. It is often said that competition is a good thing as it makes you work [...]

Cost of Living Chiang Mai

Chiang Mai food

Before Dave and I moved to Chiang Mai we had pored over different blogs from other digital nomads and travellers who had based themselves there. We realised it is possible to over-prepare yourself for a move and we were definitely guilty of that after reading so many ‘cost of living Chiang Mai’ posts. We had [...]

Creating Something Great

do good work and share it with people

We’ve been toying with the idea of trying out web designing as an income for a few months now but, as with any job, we did a lot of research into what the web designer lifestyle would entail before we fully dived in. Just because we enjoy doing something and it can earn us money [...]

Don’t be Trapped by Dogma

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Dogma, according to Wikipedia – “Dogma is the official system of belief or doctrine held by a religion, or a particular group or organization” So you’re not the religious type, you don’t really follow trends and are never brainwashed by organizations or advertising..   How Does this Effect me? It seems there is a deeper level [...]

There is More to Digital Nomads Interview #1: Codrut Alexoaia

Codrut Alexoaia.

Carrying on from our post ‘there is more to digital nomads‘ we have been seeking out some digital nomads to start our interview series. We came across Codrut Alexoaia a couple of months or so ago and was really touched by his passionate blog digitalnomad.ro. He kindly agreed to do an interview with us.. What we [...]

Digital Nomad Location #3 – Barcelona, Spain

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Our return to Barcelona after 18 months away has brought back so many memories of the three years living there. This was before the transition to digital nomad and back when I had a ‘real job’ as family like to call it. Barcelona is a city that rarely gets spoken about when talking about digital [...]

The Income Snowball & Why Greed Leads to Failure

Income Snowball

I do not particularly like to write too much about money, but it does seem to be the topic to float around the internet the most. Erin and I have had a theory for a while about ‘The Income Snowball’ and how separating ourselves from our income has been the most rewarding way of doing it. [...]

Giving Up Digital Nomadism?

miserable london

After 17 months away from Europe, we have finally made the trip back to visit the country in which I spent the first 24 years of my life.., the UK. Dragged from 37°C South Thailand, flown straight into 1°C London! The intention of the trip was for Erin to go through the delightful experience of [...]

Because There is More to Digital Nomads

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We have all seen the thousands of photos which pop up after typing in “digital nomad” into Google images. Most involving a laptop, a beach and a cocktail. I feel that Digital Nomads are in real danger of getting a bad name! The problem is, the greedy amongst us seem to rank much higher when [...]