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A deeper look into slow travel and digital nomad life, through the routines, reflections and everyday moments that shape my life on the road.
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The Beach is a Terrible Place to Work (opens the original)
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If you Google the term “digital nomad” then the likelihood is that the majority of the images that pop up will be of people with their laptops on the beach and by the pool. And yes, I have been guilty of posting these types of photos on my social media too. But have you actually tried to work on your laptop on the beach? Spotty Wi-Fi, sand in your keyboard…and forget about properly seeing your screen unless you create a tent over your head with your beach towel. Not comfortable at all. Plus what
The Last Possible Minute: how having nowhere to be made me an early riser (opens the original)
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For most of my adult life my alarm wasn’t a time. It was a mathematic calculation.Train at 8:04. Eleven minutes to the station, so out of the door at 7:53. Thirty minutes to shower and dress. Work backwards, allow nothing for contingency, because contingencies are for those people who intend to enjoy their morning.I have never been a morning person. It was practically a personality trait: don’t talk to me before coffee, I’m useless before nine, my brain doesn’t switch on until ten. Fifteen years
Óbidos: the town Portugal's Kings gave to their Queens (opens the original)
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There is a moment, early on a summer morning, when Óbidos belongs to almost no one. The day-trip coaches haven’t wound their way up the hill yet, the ginja stalls are still shuttered and the only sound on Rua Direita is my own footsteps on the cobbles. The whitewashed walls, trimmed in that unmistakable Óbidos blue, glow in the low light. A cat stretches in a doorway.This is the version of Óbidos I fell in love with. We came for a weekend, driving down from Porto and left completely charmed by t
Borrowed Habits: the daily routines travel taught me as a digital nomad (opens the original)
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Forget the fridge magnet or the floaty trousers I will “definitely” be wearing back home. What I bring back, it turns out, are other people’s habits.I’ve started calling them my “borrowed habits” which are completely entrenched in my daily life now. The lawyer in me wants to be precise about the word, because nobody actually lent me anything. I was a guest in these places for long enough to watch how people really live and then I copied them. That isn’t borrowing so much as being taught by examp
What you're actually signing up for (opens the original)
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The last time I unlocked my own front door after four months away, the first thing that greeted me was the smell. That specific, slightly musty smell of a place where nobody has lived for a season. I flipped a switch and the bulb blew immediately.That is the part nobody photographs or vlogs.If you have just arrived here, that is more or less what this is. Not the mountain. The bit afterwards, standing in the hallway with a suitcase and a dead lightbulb, working out whether the milk situation can
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