Welcome 4-hour-work-week readers. My name is Benny Lewis. I travel the world and hack languages When I was 21, I only knew how to speak English. I moved to Spain, tried for 6 months to learn Spanish, and failed. But now, 11 years later, I’m a polyglot—a person who speaks over a dozen languages (including Spanish), and I run the world’s largest language learning blog, where I write about travel, languages, and productivity, and share my stories and language hacks with millions of people like you. My new book, Fluent in 3 Months, discusses how I learn languages so quickly. 11 Non-stop years of travel My focus when I take on a new language is to speak with natives. On my 10 year anniversary I made this video about my life lessons learned from those travels, which is an expansion of a blog post I wrote on my 8 year anniversary that went viral. On my blog, you’ll see a lot about travel, whether it’s my favorite countries, strange habits I’ve adopted from travel, or finding love on the road—I cover it all.
What I do now. TravelFREAK - Inspired stories for the curious traveler. Resources for World Travel and Career Breaks. Welcome to the Legal Nomads Resources page. When I quit my job in 2008, I feverishly researched what I would need to pack, plan, and budget for a round the world trip. I did not find many world travel resources on the web at that time, so I cobbled together notes of my own.
I update it frequently, and my goal is to have the basics of long term world travel all in one place, perfect for those seeking make a change and travel but unsure of where to start. This long resources page is available on Legal Nomads freely, but it will soon be possible to download it as an ebook, along with additional resources for digital nomads, for a small fee. Pre-trip Planning 1.
While I always caution against planning your entire itinerary, it is essential to do some basic research about the area you plan to visit. Research the Weather. Resources: The Traveler’s Handbook, Travel Independent’s country guides. Start with the links below and then filter by destination. 2. 3. Vaccinations: Yes, you need them. 1. 2. Travel Blogs: Around the World in Eighty Years.
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Nomadic Matt's Travel Site : Travel Better, Cheaper, Longer. Uncornered Market - Travel and Life Adventure. Roads & Kingdoms | Journalism and travel, together at last. Bus Schedules & Tickets for Miami from $1 USD | Busbud. Rome2rio: discover how to get anywhere. Matrix - ITA Software by Google. The Adventure Archives - Thrifty Nomads. Cost of Living in Chiang Mai, Thailand. If this were a tell-all book then this would be the point where you gasp in shock and awe – she’s going to lay it all out on the line for what it costs to live as an expat in Thailand?
Really and truly? Okay, perhaps it’s not quite that exciting, but, even my mother last week on the telephone couldn’t help but dig for the nitty-gritty details on how much I pay to live in Thailand. As a traveler, I’ve always heard that it’s so incredibly cheap to expat yourself in the developing world–and it’s true, it’s cheap! I’ve paid rent in both Orlando and Los Angeles, and my Thailand living costs have averaged at least one third of my previous living expenses. Let’s first look at the hard costs, then I’ll go into what each element translates into in terms of what I get for that price!
Total Cost for a Month Living in Chiang Mai, Thailand These are my baseline costs – or rather more fixed monthly expenses. Not included in this price are the visa runs you’ll need if you’re on a tourist visa. St. Tiny Wanderer. Do Good As You Go - The Muskoka Foundation | Use What You Know, To Do Good As You Go. Independent Blog, Advice and Travel Show: Career Break Secrets. The Wandering Samaritan - Enabling international travelers to create random acts of kindness along their journey. Meet Plan Go. Links - Backpacking, budget travel internet web resources. Yonderbound - Home. 52 Places to Go in 2015. A revitalized city welcomes the world. Sure, Italy is rich with romantic cities like Florence, Venice and Rome — but its most vibrant might just be Milan.
And this is the year for tourists to explore its charms, as it hosts the 2015 World Expo. Twenty million visitors are expected to visit the city for the Expo, a mammoth event that runs from May through October and involves more than 130 participating nations and organizations sponsoring more than 60 pavilions. The Expo’s theme focuses on food, nutrition and sustainability practices — a fitting choice for a city steeped in Italian culinary traditions. Highlights will include the Future Food District, a space to explore technological advances affecting the global food chain, and the Lake Arena, an Expo centerpiece with a mirrorlike pond and fountain fed by water from the city’s canals.
And Milanese restaurants are earning acclaim for their increased focus on diverse regional cuisines from across the Italian peninsula. KiCHIC – Pocitas, Mancora | The Perfect Balance – Hotel Boutique at Pocitas Beach, Mancora. Leave Your Daily Hell – Travel blog, travel tips, travel photography. Young Adventuress. Workaway.info the site for free work exchange. Gap year volunteer for food and accommodation whilst travelling abroad.
Earthship Biotecture - Radically Sustainable Buildings. About Jack and Jill. Meet Jack Whenever Jack lets himself get dragged into Jill’s plan, he almost never regrets the decision. But every now and then, he feels like staying behind to indulge in his other life’s passions: climbing, whiskey, and writing mad code. Meet Jill Jill is the voice behind this site and all of social media.
We started the site sometime in 2010 to share stories about our travel. UPDATE (Dec 2014): We moved out of SF and bought a van! Let’s stay connected! We post once a week, every Tuesday, on this blog.For stories that don’t make it onto this blog: or For on-the-scene updates: For our best photos, along with running captions: Instagram page How can we afford to travel so much? Time: Jill works as a freelancer and thus has the kind of flexibility that allows her to take off whenever she feels like it to work wherever she wants. Money: We set a yearly travel budget and work within it. Sometimes we also partner with local outfitters that allow us to stretch our budget further. Destinations Gear. 11 Inspiring Stories Of People Who Left Normal Life And Embarked On An Adventure.
Our Pre-Trip RTW To Do List | So Many Places. I put together this list to guide those of you that plan to embark on a big trip. I know it seems like there are a million things to do (there are a million things to do) but staying organized and taking it one step at a time will make the process a whole lot easier. Also, if you’re planning to travel long-term you may be interested in the e-course that my husband and I created called Travel School. In Travel School, we teach you everything you need to know to travel the world long-term. Click here to learn all about it. The biggest, baddest long-term travel to-do list 1 + year until departure: big pictures stuff Determine your budget. Employment. Inventory your stuff.
Get to know your finances intimately. Get serious about saving. Pets. 6 months until departure Start to plan your itinerary. If you don’t have a passport, order one. Apply for a credit card that doesn’t charge foreign transaction fees. Make an appointment at a travel clinic for vaccinations. 3 months until departure Pack.