We’ve actually simply booked our subsequent large journey and sure, it is a large one! We’re not simply travelling, we’ll even be dwelling in among the most romantic cities on this planet, spending a while dwelling like an area and likewise renting a automobile for a bit to drive round and discover extra of those nations. 

On this put up, we’re going to announce our subsequent large journey plans for 2020, which is in only a few days!

Why Are We Going?

In 2019 we successfully used Grenada within the Caribbean as our house base. We’ve been returning to this lovely little island since we first got here on a pet sitting job again in 2014. We find it irresistible right here and since it’s well-connected to New York and Miami, it’s truly not a nasty place to fly out of once we go travelling.

We even have an ideal group of associates right here, a pleasant home and a way of life that we love. However after spending half of 2019 right here and nearly all of 2018, we’re excited a couple of new journey.

Grenada is a paradise. There are such a lot of issues to do right here. White sand seashores, diving, crusing, mountains, hikes, waterfalls, pleasant folks… it’s unimaginable.

However once we keep right here for a very long time, we begin to crave a little bit of metropolis life.

That is doubtless on account of the truth that we dwell exterior of the principle “cities” in Grenada, so any time we need to go to an honest restaurant or exit for some drinks with associates, we’ve got to drive for nearly a half an hour.

This doesn’t sound like an enormous deal, and actually it’s not, however for anybody who has pushed at evening in Grenada, you’ll know the roads aren’t the simplest to drive at nighttime. There are folks on the road, goats, canines and so much potholes alongside the way in which…and being high-beamed the complete drive isn’t all that enjoyable!

Which means Dariece and I usually find yourself staying at house after darkish and don’t usually enterprise out to have a “evening out”.

We find it irresistible right here although! Don’t get me incorrect. Grenada is our house, so we use this time to chill out, get work completed and benefit from the lovely nature round our home. However after a couple of months, we’re able to be “within the thick of it” once more.

That’s why for our subsequent journey, we’re transferring into flats within the heart of some cities to discover as locals, bask in all kinds of eating places and cafes, participate in some nightlife, and luxuriate in facilities that solely cities can provide.

It sounds hilarious to say as a result of many individuals would like to dwell within the Caribbean, however simply as you want a vacation from the hustle and bustle of the town, typically it’s good to have a break from peace and quiet and head into society for some time.

The place Are We Going?

Right here it goes, the massive journey announcement. We’re going again to Europe!

This may not be as thrilling for a few of you who’ve adopted us since we backpacked by means of Central Asia, hitchhiked by means of Africa, or explored the Center East, however belief me… it’s thrilling for us. We are able to’t wait.

Europe has been calling us for a very long time. Regardless that we’ve spent a substantial period of time travelling across the continent, we’ve spent most of our time within the East. This time we need to dwell and journey round extra of Western Europe.

Regardless that we’ve got some issues deliberate and booked, there are a couple of enterprise conferences within the space that we want to attend, and if a press journey pops up, we’ll think about agreeing to that as properly.

This journey is about being Digital Nomads, whereas working from our laptops and experiencing dwelling somewhere else.

2019 ended on a large “low” for us in each our enterprise and private lives, so we’re wanting ahead to focusing so much on our web site, getting impressed by new locations, and spending high quality time with each other in these romantic European cities!

Paris

We’ve truly by no means been to France, so we’re extraordinarily excited to lastly go to Paris. We are going to solely be within the metropolis for a couple of days earlier than flying to our subsequent vacation spot, so we received’t have the ability to see something however the capital (we wish to journey slower), however we’ve rented a cute Airbnb condominium in Paris proper close to the Eiffel Tower and we’ll be exploring as most of the neighbourhoods as we will within the time we’re there.

We wished to see a unique aspect of Paris as properly whereas we’re there, so we booked some experiences with locals by means of Airbnb. In case you haven’t but checked out Airbnb Experiences but, you should go obtain the app or try the web site to search out hundreds of cool excursions you are able to do with locals all around the world.

The experiences we’ve got booked in Paris are a chef’s desk dinner in a Parisian chef’s house and a wine and cheese tasting expertise… yum. We additionally booked a free strolling tour on our first day to take us to among the lesser-known components of the town.

Whereas planning our journey to Paris, we realized that the town is definitely fairly sophisticated and never that straightforward to overcome, so we plan on sharing with you guys precisely how we acquired round, what neighbourhoods we like probably the most (there are greater than a dozen within the previous city alone) and extra off-track locations we discover.

Barcelona

That is one other metropolis that has been on our European bucket listing for years. We visited Spain again in 2011, however we solely went to the far south. We had been within the nation for only a week however we visited Malaga, Estepona and Rhonda. We beloved these three cities truly, so it’s shocking that we haven’t returned till now.

Since visiting Spain, we’ve heard so many individuals rave about Barcelona and plenty of digital nomads are additionally relocating there. So we rented an condominium in Gracia for per week and we’ll be utilizing it as our base to discover the town. We joined an “Uncensored Underground Strolling Tour” of the town (once more by means of Airbnb Experiences) and shall be trying out the pink gentle district and among the extra seedy components of Barcelona.

It is going to be fascinating to see the underbelly of the town and get a greater understanding of why it’s the manner it’s. 

Regardless that that is our first time in Barcelona, we’re properly conscious that it’s the pickpocketing capital of the world, so we’ll positively be going low-key and conserving an in depth grip on our belongings, however crime hasn’t deterred us from travelling locations earlier than, so Barcelona shall be no completely different. 

We additionally booked a tapas and wine strolling tour which, in the event you’ve been following us for some time, you’ll know is true up our alley. As we’ve got a bit extra time in Barcelona, we hope to get some work completed in the course of the mornings after which head out and discover in the course of the afternoons.

Once more we’ll be popping out with guides and posts about issues to do in Barcelona on this weblog so keep tuned.

Rome

From Barcelona, we fly to Rome.

Ah, Rome. There may be simply one thing about this metropolis. When the tip of 2019 had some fairly severe lows, Dariece and I each sat down and thought: “The place is our completely satisfied place?”

The reply is at all times, Rome.

Historical historical past, scrumptious wine, unimaginable meals and being surrounded by individuals who have a ardour for all times. The place higher than Rome?

We’ve been to Rome earlier than, however this time we plan to remain for round Three weeks. That is once we’ll actually be settling down a bit and dwelling like locals. We’ve got rented an condominium within the Trastevere neighbourhood the place we’ll base ourselves to discover extra of not simply the town, but in addition among the small cities and villages surrounding it.

Our plan is to work for the day and head out to discover within the late afternoons and evenings. As a result of we’re so near many eating places, bars and cafes, we’re most wanting ahead to being in the midst of the motion.

We’re only a few minutes stroll from Campo de’ Fiori and we’ve already explored most of the sights within the metropolis, so we received’t really feel like we’ve got to do “the touristy stuff” whereas we’re there (though we nonetheless do need to see the Vatican Metropolis).

We’re excited to stroll out of our entrance door and truly benefit from the nightlife. As a substitute of settling in at 7:00 pm as we do right here in Grenada, we will head out to a restaurant or wine bar at that hour, get pleasure from a platter of meats and cheeses, some scrumptious pink wine and recent home made pasta. My mouth is watering simply fascinated with it.

As digital nomads, we’re lucky to have the ability to work from wherever, and by dwelling in Rome for some time, we really feel we’ll actually be making the most of this way of life.

However we’re not simply staying in Rome for the complete time. We additionally booked a few wonderful experiences across the metropolis. One is a pasta-making class with an 80-year-old Grandma in a small romantic village about an hour prepare experience exterior of Rome. The opposite is a winery tour and wine tasting, additionally exterior of city.

We additionally booked some experiences within the metropolis, together with an underground meals & wine strolling tour and we’re eying up another ones that we’d resolve on as soon as we’re there.

We’ve already written quite a bit about Rome on this weblog, however after spending one other Three weeks within the metropolis, we’ll have the ability to beef up that content material and actually provide you with guys a greater understanding of issues to do exterior of the principle vacationer sights. 

We may even be writing about our expertise dwelling in Rome, the place to search out flats, the perfect neighbourhoods in Rome, the price of dwelling, and many others.

That is our completely satisfied place and we will’t wait to have this time collectively…whereas consuming and consuming our manner across the metropolis!

Lisbon

Lisbon has been on our dwelling overseas bucket listing since 2015 once we first began listening to of the town within the digital nomad teams. It appears that evidently this hip and exquisite seaside capital has all of it. Vivid pastel-coloured structure, a cool metropolis heart, edgy neighbourhoods, nice eating places, cool co-working areas and a big digital nomad group, we will’t wait to lastly discover Lisbon.

We’ll be staying in a brilliant condominium simply exterior of the principle hustle and bustle of the town (which might be fairly loud at evening apparently). We’ll be dwelling in Lisbon and dealing on the weblog for a bit of over Three weeks. We’re hoping to participate in some on-line entrepreneurship seminars, meet up with another bloggers and digital nomads and simply discover the town for some time.

As of the time of penning this put up, we haven’t booked any strolling excursions, underground excursions or Airbnb Experiences but, however we plan to positively do some wine tastings, some cultural and historic strolling excursions and native foodie experiences.

After dwelling in Lisbon for a couple of weeks, we’ll have a very good understanding of the perfect areas to remain in Lisbon and what it’s wish to dwell and journey there. We’ll be sharing posts on this weblog about the price of dwelling, locations to see, off-track experiences, and many others.

Hopefully, we’ll additionally have the ability to report again on the digital nomad scene there, the conferences and occasions that occur and the co-working areas across the metropolis.

At this level in our travels round Europe, it’ll be time to do some exploring exterior of the cities. We selected to spend fairly a little bit of time in Rome and Lisbon as a result of we have to get some work completed on the enterprise, however after 6 weeks we needs to be caught up sufficient to go out and discover.

At the moment, our plan is to hire a automobile and drive up the coast of Portugal to take a look at the town of Porto and a few cities within the Algarve…however nothing is ready in stone.

After Lisbon?

We haven’t booked something but, however we do have some wonderful concepts floating round our journey brains in the intervening time. We’re going to play it by ear and see how we really feel after 2 months in Europe and the way far alongside we’re with the enterprise plans, but when we’re prepared, we’re considering of those few concepts:

Asia?

Seeing as we will solely keep within the Schengen Zone in Europe for 90 days in any 180 day interval, we’re considering we’d depart Europe altogether for a month or so and head to Asia. Maybe an condominium in Chiang Mai or a villa in Bali? We haven’t determined but.

Slovenia?

We’ve at all times wished to journey round Slovenia and specifically, we’ve been fascinated with dwelling within the nation’s gorgeous, inexperienced capital for Lubjianna. If we’re not too nervous about our Schengen Visas operating out, we could head to Slovenia for a couple of weeks to dwell and journey round this mountain climbing and trekking paradise.

Van Life?

That is one thing we’ve at all times wished to do. We discovered a really cool RV for hire in Czechia (Czech Republic) and we’d like to hire it for a month or two and drive round Europe in it. Van life has at all times been on our journey bucket listing and whereas we’ve deliberate many overland journeys previously, we’ve at all times completed them by automobile. 

Residing out of a van or RV could be such a novel journey expertise for us. After all, due to the Schengen limitations, we wouldn’t have the ability to spend a lot time in Central or Western Europe, however we’d love to select it up in Czechia, then head to Austria, Hungary, Romania, Moldova, Western Ukraine and Poland earlier than dropping the automobile again off the place we acquired it.

How Are We Getting There?

As I discussed earlier within the put up, Grenada makes a fairly respectable base in terms of flights, due to connections by means of New York and Miami. Imagine it or not, we’re flying from Grenada to New York direct for $192 USD, spending the evening in an Airbnb in New York, then flying from New York to Paris direct for $132 USD.

That’s unimaginable proper?! All the way in which from Grenada to Paris with just one cease for $324 every. One of the best half is that we used our bank card factors to pay for these, so that they’re truly free.

These fundamental fares aren’t even particular discounted flight offers although. The flight from Grenada to New York is with JetBlue and so they run this similar journey day by day of the week apart from Monday and you may often get the fare for underneath $200.

The flight from New York to Paris is with Norwegian Airways and so they’re presently serving many main American cities with among the most cost-effective flights possible. 

We would not be near a lot manner down right here in Grenada, however at the least we will discover superior fares like these by means of New York and Miami.

We may’ve completed the complete journey in someday with only a 3-hour layover in JFK airport, however we don’t love to do lengthy flights anymore or stress out about tight connections. We’d relatively simply spend the evening in a resort room or Airbnb relatively than enduring 19 hours of straight journey.

How Lengthy Will We Go For?

For now, we booked an open-ended ticket. We do not know how lengthy we’ll be travelling for. We’ve got till mid-March booked proper now and at the moment we’ll reassess and resolve what we need to do, proceed travelling round Europe, go to Asia or return house to Grenada.

What You Can Count on From The Weblog

Our plan is to jot down plenty of content material about our experiences on this journey, what we consider the cities, what it’s wish to dwell and journey round these nations, the price of dwelling and many others. We’ll even be placing collectively some helpful movies on the YouTube Channel to offer you a greater understanding of what these locations are like. In case you haven’t but, ensure you subscribe.

Thank You!

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