Preparing China
Today we bought the Lonely Planet China, new edition, which is a “calhamaco” (portuguese) of thousand pages. We discussed a lot about buying this one, or the old edition (half price) or just print the chapters we wanted. After not finding where to print 300 pages on double face and double page per sheet, we […]
Read MoreWhat do you actually take with you?
I heard this question many times in the last few weeks. So, here you go, this is a picture of what I took with me (missing items: toiletry bag, trekking shoes, green pants, camera, small shoulder bag). All of it fitting in a 36 liter green backpack.
Read MoreLife in boxes
All our belongings, except what is on our backpacks, are in those boxes:
Read MoreBusiness card
We are now professional travellers. Like for any other business we did our own card:
Read MoreSecond Life
I don’t need to play “Second Life” on the Internet. I’m about to give a second life to nearly all my belongings.Today I sold my sofabed – a huge thing I thought I would have to donate to Emmaus or so because nobody seemed to want it. Anyway, someone just bought it (for 10% of […]
Read MoreSharing country and city tips 1 – Vienna and Budapest
For sure we are not the first going to most of the cities we plan to visit, and certainly you, knowing us, can propose some good places to discover in our itinerary. Most likely our first stops will be Vienna and Budapest. In Vienna we have our friend Jan to host us, but we are […]
Read MoreVaccination – Ouch!
Lucky me I’ve been traveling the last few years and lucky me that in Portugal we have a good coverage of vaccination (plus lucky I’ve Eva). Because of all that today I only got three vaccinations. And before we leave I’ll get three boosters of them. Diphtheria, tetanus, poliomyelitis, hepatitis A and B, measles, yellow […]
Read MoreThe giving away process
These days I’m in the process of listing and photographing every possible thing in my apartment and putting up ads to sell or give them away. Not always easy, especially with the bigger items not from Ikea (and thus a bit more expensive)… So today, someone came over to have a look at my chest […]
Read MoreGetting into travel mode
When preparing a trip like that, there are some very practical, “everyday life” things, like getting your body ready for travel. Examples:1. Trying to convince my skin to get used to that nice cream that one can use for face and body (very practical, just one container instead of 2…). Result: my face doesn’t like […]
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