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What does your dream year look like?
“A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do” – said someone who’s clearly better with words than he is at singing (Bob Dylan)....
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Do you have decision fatigue?
The ability to make our own decisions is one of life’s greatest freedoms, but boy do we all abuse it at times. We spend so much time figuring out what to wear, what to eat, which movie to watch and...
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From employees to Anywhereists: our full story (UPDATED)
Where it all began – a typically tiny NYC apartment There’s a brand new update (2014 onwards) towards the bottom of this post. WARNING: a lot of the links in this story are broken. Sorry! We’re...
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You might not be an entrepreneur… and that’s OK
I’m surrounded by entrepreneurs. Social media experts are entrepreneurs. Web designers are entrepreneurs. Management consultants are entrepreneurs. Accountants are entrepreneurs. Except they’re not –...
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Skills? Pah!
Last year, during a week that will one day become semi-affectionately referred to as The Bonkers Week In Which We Did Everything But SleepTM, a lot went on. While dealing with the purchase of a new...
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Europe… in or out?
Our future if we leave the EU? “So… in or out?” It’s the British equivalent of “What the f**k do we do about Trump?” – the conversation starter of choice at dinner tables around the country. Later...
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Before you go off to do that…
Last week we officially launched a new business. We created the website, got the business cards designed, opened the bank account, and began the hiring process for our first member of staff....
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On being different
“Robbie, where do you want your ashes to be scattered when you die?” “Well I’ll be dead by that point, so it doesn’t matter. You choose.” “You must have somewhere you’d like them to be scattered? A...
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Whenever we’re with friends or new acquaintances and the conversation is getting a little bit stale/whiney/gossipy/surface level, I have a habit of bringing out my secret weapon: a list of questions...
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Maybe it’s because we’re British, but the two of us are fantastically adept at brushing off compliments whenever we receive them. “Oh, this old thing? Got it in the bargain bin at Tesco, and the...
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How to provide a client-facing service as a digital nomad (and save yourself...
This you won’t be attending, whatever the date… and they need to know upfront When we first launched our company Mortified Cow, we SUCKED when it came to knowing how to successfully provide a...
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On digital nomadism and feeling free
FYI digital nomads don’t necessarily HAVE to look so darn philosophical while drinking a coffee For the first time, we’re in Berlin as digital nomads rather than tourists. And sheesh (or doner –...
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10 things I now know about Sofia, Bulgaria
Spot the Mafia dude (we excitedly assume) ducking behind the spring onions 1: The alphabet is Cyrillic And while that’s apparently no secret, we had no idea until the day before we travelled there (we...
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How to make the most of your dead-end job
You might have noticed that we have strong opinions about jobs. We think they’re fine if you enjoy them and look forward to them and have some degree of autonomy within them. But if you’re a middle...
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Get some travel-related benefits without moving a mile
Absolutely no need to sleep on 25 unsuitable mattresses each year – like we do Happiness (this week, for us) is… buying a bloody massive jar of instant coffee, the hugest box of oatmeal we can find,...
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10 things I now know about Budapest
More serious and useful photos inside. Promise. Budapest was once two cities We didn’t know this, and we’re hoping others didn’t know this either – or else this is a pretty crap fact. There was Buda...
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Why we’re starting new business ventures
…And we’re very excited about them all We had “one of those weeks” this week. A week where a client was being a knobend (sorry clients who read this – we’re probably not talking about you if that...
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How to stay motivated: stop thinking in terms of days and weeks
We’re feeling as smug as these people look You know how sickening it is to see those people with smug happy faces, wandering around looking all delighted because they think they’ve nailed life? (They...
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Your 5-minute lesson on “enjoying the journey”
Us = never happy. (And bear in mind this photo was taken on Christmas Day. In Paris. By an ice-skating rink. And we’d just stroked a puppy. We’re not even kidding.) We had an exciting week in the...
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11 more things I know about Berlin
A bar on top of a shopping centre car park… and a bar at the back of a garden centre. Only in Berlin. After 63 days, 100ish falafel balls, 50-odd meals out in the sunshine, 30 bang-on-time train rides...
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Worried someone’s going to steal your idea? Here are 4 things you should...
Oh shut up. “If you’ll just sign this NDA, and then we can get the project started…” “Before I tell you my business idea, please do keep it to yourself…” “Before I ask for your help with my business...
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The digital nomad work-life balance… it’s a tricky one
Being in Madrid: definitely helps with the “life” part We’re the first to admit that we have a tendency to overwork – in a “working hard rather than smart” kinda way. We obsess over tiny details at the...
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Madrid – the next destination for digital nomads?
Berlin, Chiang Mai, Ubud, Ho Chi Minh City… travel to any of these destinations and you’ll find coworking spaces, trendy coffees and paleo breakfasts galore to cater for the influx of digital nomads....
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How to be happy… despite occasional unintended consequences
Sol and Becky. Admittedly they didn’t look quite this beautiful last week… We can’t quite believe we’re saying this, but sometimes we’ll admit that there are more important things in life than wifi,...
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How to travel the world as an introvert
BUDDIES! Around the world While very few people are out-and-out introverts or extroverts (we’re all on a sliding scale), it’s pretty clear that Rob and I lean towards the introverted side in a big way....
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11 cities in 12 months: here’s what we think of ’em all
A selection of our bedrooms from the past year In our FIRST FULL YEAR as digital nomads, we’ve lived in 11 different cities around the world – some for a couple of weeks, others for up to a couple of...
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Neglecting income in favour of curiosity
Yeesh As you may know, we’re both huge fans of heuristics. And boy have we come up with a blinder for you this week: “If you’ve used up all the standard colours on your Google Calendar, it’s time to...
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Our heuristics for work, travel and food
Unfortunately we have yet to create a heuristic for sausage shopping – let us know if you have one A little while ago Rob wrote a post about how to simplify your life, and the section that provoked the...
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10 things I now know about The Hamptons
This is what you get to see of most Hamptons houses – the driveway Full disclosure: We were only there for a day, and we spent most of that day in the villages of Southampton or East Hampton – or...
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The big problem with living in a cheap country (and how to deal with it)
Yes, it’s a five-star hotel. No, it means nothing. When we started our own business, we did what so many location independent entrepreneurs did: we flew to Thailand for a few months to keep costs low...
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Measuring progress in an unconventional life
“Unconventional friends” – apart from when it comes to clothing, it seems My “smile lines” are doing my nut, I can see sag lines on my tummy, and I’m beginning to think that four earrings in one...
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Can’t quit your job? Start up a business on the side!
If you want to start your own business but can’t afford to quit your job, what do you do? You start up a business on the side, that’s what! Here’s how. Moonlighting FTW The story of how we got started...
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Packing list – 2.25 years in!
Once an obsession, now an addiction. The quest to get our luggage as light as possible may be taking up more headspace than it deserves, but C’MON people: 9kg each, and we don’t even smell bad! (We...
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What does it cost to be a digital nomad?
“Cost of living” is a borderline obsession for most digital nomads (or “nearly nomads”). We all want to make sure we’re living as cost-effectively as possible – and in countries that allow us to do so...
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8.25 things we now know about Valencia
We’ve just spent five weeks living in Valencia, and neither of us can remember a time when we felt so happy, so healthy, so well-rested, and so productive. I’m not going to give Valencia all the...
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The tactics, tools and rules we use to run multiple businesses while we travel
Get ready for a geekgasmically epic list of all the tools and processes we use to run our multiple businesses and side projects. Working from anywhere…including beer gardens We often get asked about...
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How to hire and get the best out of your employees
After two years of trying to hire and manage people successfully, we’re finally making progress. We used to simultaneously live by and resent the mantra, “If you want something done right, do it...
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How things change
We never normally publish our email newsletters on the blog, but this week’s newsletter received such a strong and positive reaction that we thought we’d make an exception… If you want to receive...
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Find A Nomad has launched! Find out how we did it
This week we – along with members of The Anywhereist Group – officially launched our free online tool, Find A Nomad. It helps digital nomads discover where friends and potential new friends are right...
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Why you should persist with those passion projects
Whichever business idea you pursue, there’s huge value in having some passion projects on the go too. Here’s why. For us, pulling silly faces is a passion project – but the jury’s out on whether it...
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10 more things I now know about Madrid
After spending another month in Madrid (exactly a year after our first stay), is it just as good as we remember? This time last year we spent a month in Madrid – afterwards declaring ourselves to be...
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Big fat update on all our businesses
A lot’s happened in the past couple of months! Here’s an update on all our various businesses and projects – and info on how we run them while we travel. Sorrrrry! It’s been a long time since we’ve...
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Tools we love, and tools we want to exist
The other day we added a new “Tools” page to this site – a list of all the resources and services we use regularly and would struggle without. But we want more… When a number of readers emailed us to...
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Tracking our spending as digital nomads… what does it reveal?
How does our spending change as we move to different cities around the world? We now have two years of data to look at, so it’s time to start delving! Damn you, New York and your irresistible...
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How do we decide where to live next?
So many cities, so much to do! So how do we and other digital nomads figure out where to travel to next? Bangkok, we’ll miss you terribly The question “How do we decide where to live next?” should...
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2 months in NYC, 34 cafes
And we’ve reviewed them all. One of the many, many great things about New York is just how many fantastic wifi cafes there are – all around the city. And we managed to work our way (literally) through...
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The 2015 packing list
OK, so here’s the thing. When we first started travelling, our philosophy was “far better to buy the cheapest cheapest clothing and replace it frequently, than buy absurdly expensive gear and run the...
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The Spice Girls had it right
When I was 12, my school friends and I wrote our “life plans” in the backs of our homework books. I wanted to be married by 22 (just like my mum), and then enjoy two years of married life before...
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What happens when digital nomads get old?
We’d really rather not think or worry about getting old, but we have to. That’s partly because Rob’s concerns about his wrinkles and baldness – not to mention “the relentless decline in abdominal...
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Lessons from a minor breakdown
A couple of years ago, we experienced something of a minor breakdown. For many weeks, we had daily bouts of hiccupy sobs, bad headaches and an unbearable feeling of failure. During a particularly bad...
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