Travel

144 posts

2026

6 Jun Rimowa suitcase broke after Copenhagen to Lisbon flight and why avoid luxury brands 𝕏
4 Jun Revolut fixed my banking nightmares after Rabobank froze my card in Bali and made me homeless in the US 𝕏
29 May Luxury hotels are mathematically bad value 𝕏
28 May Western Europe is so fucking tiring 𝕏
27 May Hotel in the Netherlands sets AC minimum at 23°C and locks windows for security 𝕏
25 May Leiden might be the best Dutch city to visit instead of tourist Amsterdam 𝕏
17 May Barcelona has drug dens and violent crime in El Raval that Google Maps won't show 𝕏
17 May Hoodmaps.com now has crime data 𝕏
2 Apr Brazil's CPF catch-22 makes booking hotels impossible for tourists 𝕏
27 Mar Argentinean meat is one of the worst in the world now 𝕏
16 Mar The irony that traveling on less than $1,000 a month is more fun than luxury travel 𝕏
7 Feb Visiting Brazil's biggest indie hacker meetup 𝕏
4 Jan Luxury is absolutely done in the West but still exists in Asia and the Gulf states 𝕏

2025

14 Dec Qatar Airways business class gets you special arrival reception at Doha 𝕏
13 Dec I got 100+ mbps plane internet on Qatar Airways with Starlink 𝕏
13 Dec Amap is my favorite navigation app in China 𝕏
7 Dec China can be very cheap with $300 Chongqing hotel suites and $20 rooms 𝕏
7 Dec Chinese tourism is 95% domestic making China feel like the only foreigner there 𝕏
6 Dec Restaurants in China show their menus as photos on the wall 𝕏
6 Dec Never fly directly into Lisbon from outside Europe to skip immigration 𝕏
5 Dec Chongqing looks gray and derelict without its night lights and needs better maintenance 𝕏
4 Dec Chinese high speed trains are now faster than the Japanese Shinkansen 𝕏
4 Dec Arriving in Chongqing and China's LED lit skyline versus Europe saving energy 𝕏
4 Dec I took the high speed train in China today 𝕏
3 Dec China's train security is stricter than TSA 𝕏
3 Dec Getting the China flu after arriving and why to wear an N95 on planes 𝕏
3 Dec Never bring a knife to China because DHL and customs make shipping impossible 𝕏
29 Nov I got the China cough after 4 days in China 𝕏
27 Nov Beijing uses robot arms at toll booths 𝕏
27 Nov China airport confiscated our power banks without CCC certification 𝕏
27 Nov The Russian connection in China doesn't stop 𝕏
27 Nov Woke up in Beijing's Summer Palace built in 1750 as a birthday gift 𝕏
26 Nov Got Alipay to work in China as proxy for Didi Meituan and Baidu 𝕏
26 Nov Russians are traveling to China a lot because they're blocked from most places 𝕏
25 Nov China isn't easy to travel 𝕏
18 Sep It turns out Mark Manson was mostly right about Brazil 𝕏
15 Jun I randomly discovered Dubai has an absolutely massive solar farm 𝕏
28 Apr Electricity is down in entire Portugal and Spain peninsula 𝕏

2024

29 Dec The only planes left with zero fatal accidents now 𝕏
24 Nov Europe's end game might be to become like Japan a cheap tourist destination 𝕏
30 Sep Travel and fitness are two of the most important things you can do for your brain 𝕏
23 Sep Nomad list is one of the first network states 𝕏
5 Sep Bali broke ground on a subway that will connect the entire island 𝕏
7 Jul A majority of the worst ranked airports in the world are run by Da Vinci Airports 𝕏
7 Jul Imagine traveling to Europe to spend your hard-earned money and getting sprayed with water guns by degrowth protesters 𝕏
5 Jul American restaurants kick you out after one meal unlike Europe 𝕏
1 Jul The rise and fall of Lisbon (2020-2024) 𝕏
30 Jun I made luggage losers a live ranking of airlines by lost luggage 𝕏
5 May New York City was founded by the Dutch as New Amsterdam 400 years ago 𝕏
21 Mar Got scammed with the extra zero trick at Órale Juanito Palermo in Buenos Aires 𝕏

2023

5 Oct If i was 18 today i’d skip uni and go nomad building startups 𝕏
8 Aug Invested in Brazil after traveling there for a month 𝕏
13 Jul Luxury restaurant in Portugal won't accept Visa or MasterCard but barefoot food cart guy in Brazil does 𝕏
15 Jun I wish everywhere had these power outlets that accept any plug from US UK EU plus USB-C 𝕏
10 Jun First class in America vs first class in Asia 𝕏
20 May Thailand is a third world country 𝕏
6 Apr Buenos Aires is now #1 on Nomad List thanks to cheap currency 𝕏
11 Mar If I was just out of school I'd fly to Bangkok to bootstrap my startup for $240 a month 𝕏
11 Feb Digital nomads you are fucking disgusting graffiti in Portugal 𝕏

2022

29 Dec Airbnb hosts with strict rules and deposits versus easy hotels 𝕏
5 Jul The secret of Portugal is to leave Lisbon as fast as possible 𝕏
15 May Top rising and falling destinations for remote workers in 2022 𝕏
10 May Building Remotely Podcast: Relocation of remote workers
16 Apr Flying is so stressful it's not a luxury product anymore 𝕏

2021

2020

2019

16 Dec Hotel lobbies as the new secret free coworkings after public libraries 𝕏
29 Jul Nomad List 5 launches exactly 5 years after the first version on Product Hunt 𝕏
29 Jul Nomad List turns 5
25 Jul Fukuoka hotel I randomly booked turned out to be coliving with beautiful coworking 𝕏
7 Jul Tourist versus local maps for NYC, SF, Amsterdam and Tokyo 𝕏
13 Mar Bali banned single-use plastics and this cassava bag is the biodegradable alternative 𝕏

2018

24 Nov In Beijing you can add your public transit card to Apple Wallet 𝕏
23 Nov Beijing air turned into hell on earth this weekend from weekend driving 𝕏
23 Nov Every receipt in Beijing gives you a QR code for digital bookkeeping 𝕏
19 Nov Beijing today 𝕏
8 Oct Map of every European city 𝕏
1 Oct Visited my favorite fintech Revolut's office in London and met the co-founder 𝕏
27 May Went to a robot hotel with self check-in and no humans 𝕏
28 Jan Why Korean Jimjilbangs and Japanese Onsens are great
3 Jan What I learnt from 100 days of shipping

2017

2016

10 Nov Finally met John O'Nolan in real life in Chiang Mai 𝕏
1 Nov Finally my two hobbies merged: travel and VR with Nomad List VR 𝕏
29 Oct How to fix flying
18 Oct Vaporwave impression about my month in Shanghai 𝕏
17 Oct Hong Kong Express - 上海 (Shanghai)
8 Oct Working from a free coworking space in Shanghai 𝕏
7 Oct The Shelter in Shanghai is a cyberpunk Bladerunner club from the year 2150 𝕏
12 Jan How to use your iPhone as a better Apple TV alternative (with VPN)

2015

2014

2013

31 Dec Celebrating NYE 2014 in Hong Kong
30 Dec How I ended up in Hong Kong (or my adventures in the New York of the East)
23 Nov How I spent the night with Singapore's migrant workers
23 Nov How I travel the world with just a carry-on bag
22 Nov Why I want to live in Singapore
30 Oct My not so great time in Vietnam
27 Oct The myth of a globalized world
12 Oct What I learnt from bootstrapping my startup from Thailand in six months
20 Jul The 100 Thing Challenge – From 200 to 20 things in 3 months
17 Jul Living in a Hotel
16 Jul The Story of my Visa Run to Tachileik in Myanmar
19 Jun Make money where prices are high, spend it where prices are low. Does income arbitrage work?
16 Jun Finding an apartment in Chiang Mai
11 Jun Co-Working Spaces in Chiang Mai: PunSpace
10 Jun Moving to Chiang Mai
4 Jun My Bad Day At The Co-Working Space
29 May The 24-Hour Coffee Place in Bangkok: Too Fast To Sleep
17 May Visiting Koh Samui, the island of paradise
5 May From dive bar to roof-top bar to roof-top pool in Bangkok
2 May "To awaken quite alone in a strange town..."
1 May Co-working spaces in Bangkok: Launchpad
24 Apr The 100 Thing Challenge
23 Apr Co-working spaces in Bangkok: Hubba
22 Apr Reset your life
9 Mar How I switched from PC to Mac in less than 7 days

2009

1 Sep I went studying abroad in Korea