Digital Nomad Diaries
Personal stories and insights from my life as a digital nomad — working remotely across Asia and beyond, finding cafés, coworking spaces and community.
Vietnam
An Alien, Spaceman & Angry Pig on a Dancefloor
My sixty visa-free days in Thailand had come to an end, so I took the short flight across the border from Chiang Mai to Hanoi in Vietnam. My previous experience of Vietnam had always felt a little overwhelming compared to Thailand, but I was up for a dance after settling in.
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Indonesia
Back to Bali (Indonesia Travel Diary #1)
At the end of 2013, I enjoyed the best 1-month adventure of my young hot life in Bali. It’s almost 10 years to the day that I find myself back here. Smell can be our strongest sense with regards to memory flashbacks, and being back immediately felt familiar.
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Philippines
Cebu City and Manila Airport (Philippines Diary #1)
It took 24 hours to take two flights from Vietnam to the island of Cebu in the Philippines. Total flight time: 4 hours. Total time in Manila Airport and a god-awful ‘hotel’ for some rest: 20 hours. This was due to Air Asia cancelling one fight and delaying another.
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Vietnam
Xin Chào! (Vietnam Travel Diary #1)
Despite winging my travels in many ways, I do like to be prepared. I held out until there were just 2 weeks left to apply for a Vietnam visa, as a big update was coming. It was worth the wait. They opened e-visa applications for all countries! And what a breeze.
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Seychelles
The Journey There (Seychelles Travel Diary #1)
Getting to the Seychelles began like many solo journeys. A 3 hour flight delay saw me landing at Mahé Airport at midnight. I can never sleep on planes or the night before boarding one, so the first thing my sleep-deprived-self had to deal with was not having a print-out of my return ticket.
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London
London Diary: Impressions of a First-Timer
Journeying to London involved 3 plane rides with an 8 hour overlay in Paris. I hadn’t thought to pack my toothbrush and some deo into my hand luggage and was sure that the airport staff would have tucked into my secret bag of Doritos.
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Thailand
Koh Samui Nightlife and a Puddle Plunge
Koh Samui has naughty nightlife on par with Phuket and Bangkok. This needed investigating. Chaweng and Lamai are the names.
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