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Unlocking Seamless Connectivity: A Guide to SIM Cards and eSIMs for Travelers
Why getting a SIM card can enhance your travel experience During my first trips around Europe, smartphones and affordable roaming options weren’t widely available. I vividly recall wandering the streets of Lisbon and spending the night out there with my friends at the age of 16, unable to find our way back to our host’s accommodation during our exchange program. While those experiences were undeniably adventurous, having a SIM card and access to the internet would have made our trip infinitely easier. Local SIM Card vs. eSIM: Which is better for travel? When we embarked on our world trip in 2019, eSIM’s were still relatively unknown. As a result, we…
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The virus, the Spartans and the sexy zombies
Halloween is that time of the year where you scare trick-or–tricksters by having your dog run at them while barking, hungry for flesh and cuddles, and where you hit equally hard Netflix and the local candy shop. This one however saw the land being ravaged by a hideous monster, whose only purpose in existence is to make life miserable while its minions enforce its vile rule one edict at a time. Something that not even Hocus Pocus nor the latest Adam Sandler’s movie could help against (and yeah, it was an ok movie). Obviously, we are talking about Boredom, assisted by inhuman creatures who occupy a few big, governmental palaces…
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3 easy steps to change your life and take that “big leap”
Changing your life is very scary, I get it. It was also very scary for me, took quite some months, if not years to decide whether I really want this or not. In the end, we did it: we quit our jobs, left for 3 years of world trip… and well, in the end Covid-19 hit in the 8th month of our trip, and we have no clue again what will happen next. As a side note, the original plan was leaving a year earlier, so now we would be in our second year of our travels, we would have seen more, experienced more, and I wouldn’t be sitting now…
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How to get free degrees during quarantine
Our world trip didn’t go as we planned, in the 8th month the coronavirus hit the world. But after the first shock, we tried to make the best out of it, this is how we ended up having free degrees during the quarantine! We show you how can you still do it during the summer of 2020! 6 months and dozen of countries were behind our back when the first news arrived. China, Lunar New Year and the new virus, but most of us believed (or rather hoped?) that it will be contained and a pandemic would not start. We were wrong. We have spent the Lunar New Year in…
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The baby giant
Life on the fields Once upon a time, in a remote village of ancient Vietnam, there was a couple who spent their youth traveling and sharing their adventures on their favorite social media, but when the 50th year of age kicked in, they found themselves desperately wanting a child, while not being able to bear one. But then one day, something very special happened. One morning, the woman reached her rice field for her morning 12 hours shift, and she noticed something looking like a giant footprint on the soil. Taken by curiosity, she did what any woman would do under the same circumstances: she stripped naked and measured the…
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Geishas and maikos
The world pandemic made us stay in Japan, thus maybe it is also just a perfect time to learn a bit more of the Japanese culture. In the first weeks we are staying around the Kansai region. We arrived here a week earlier than the cherry blossom, so got plenty of time to find the cheapest food options and the nicest cherry trees. The strolls on the empty streets took us to old Kyoto where we noticed a sign in a street – no pictures? The Japanese girls whom we asked about this later didn’t know which street we are talking about, but a European guy who lives in Kyoto…
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The Cinema
It still bamboozles me that many, many people see traveling to India as something cool, glamorous, even chic. Every now and then, on the tv or social medias, you can see the figure of a hippie, a rasta raggamuffin or a 20-something-years-old girl singing praise about some ecstatic state of enlightenment reached by travelling through India, “the best country in the world, so full of riches and tradition and foodie, namaste” and similar. With the only exception of heavy drug users (not quite uncommon among those who travel to India), which are able to reach such an elevated, although temporary spiritual condition anywhere in the world anyway, only someone with…
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Plane ticket rental
When planning a holiday, it’s typical to book a return flight, especially for overseas trips where deals are often more enticing, especially with non-budget airlines. However, when exploring regions like Southeast Asia for an extended period, deciding on the next destination or the duration of stay can be uncertain. In such situations, it’s common to make plans upon arrival, leveraging affordable transportation options like buses or trains to neighboring countries. Yet, this spontaneity may not sit well with immigration officials. To avoid purchasing potentially unused tickets, there are alternative solutions that seasoned travelers and digital nomads have embraced for years. Below, we outline three tried-and-tested options to navigate this challenge…
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The castle
Being in paradise is a state of mind, different for everyone. While the most common choice to reach Nirvana is through hordes of attractive, available sexual partners and/or rivers of energy drinks & videogames, many also agree that going to some tropical beach, sipping cocktails and observing the panorama, which often includes Instagram models posing in absolutely not erotical ways, is quite the standard definition of having a good time, in a good place. And yet, there is still that irreducible part of people that would have something to say about such an idyllic scenario, commenting that is all wrong, that is actually not as good as in the pictures,…
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The rainforests of the Malaysian peninsula
In the first 1,5 years of the world trip, we are spending around 6 months in tropical, lush countries, and since we prefer nature to the concrete jungles, it is obvious that we planned to go to rainforests. Our first try was in India, where it is safer to get a guide. In Kerala we were suggested by several people to go to Munnar, one of the most famous tea plantation in the country, surrounded by spice plantations, this is how we ended up there after a day-long, crazy bus ride. Even if there was a tea plantation where you can go without the guide (however 15 km by tuk-tuk…
