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18 January 2018

Sweet potato. Vietnam begins.

After 3 weeks riding all over Cambodia I had to drop my plan to go to Laos as the border is apparently closed. To do that I should’ve done a little detour through central Vietnam mountains, which would have taken me at least a couple of days. So better to change a bit the itinerary doing Cambodia-Vietnam-Laos. Under a fairly…

12 December 2017

I just wanted to buy a sim card…

“Excuse me, where can I buy…”“A motorbike!?”“A sim card”“A motorbike!?”“I mean, yeah… maybe I’ll get a motorbike as well at some point, but I need a sim card now”“Ok, my friend have motorbike”“Oh fuck…I give up…what motorbike?”“He be here in 5 minutes! Good motorbike!”“…ok…but what about a sim card?”“You go buy sim card with motorbike”“Oh FFS…ok ok, let’s have a…

3 November 2017

A grey island vs a sunny island. First impressions of Australia.

Sadness, that sadness that you feel when you’re leaving a place too early, or that it’s not the time to leave yet. That is probably the worse part of travelling. You get used for it, for sure, it happens almost every few days, then you’re in the new place and everything starts again. However, despite getting used, it always hurts…

5 October 2017

Photography Course…for free

“Hey new girl, who are you?” “Chantelle” “Chantelle is your name…I’ve asked who you are.” The girl quite intimidated by this strange individual bows her head looking straight at her breakfast without saying a word. The guy starts to laugh and so do I with him. I like him, he’s an Australian DJ and surfer, in his forties, with long…

28 September 2017

Digital Nomad in Canggu

After 3 weeks in Sri Lanka, I flew to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Where I stayed only for few days as the weather was not the best, pouring rain every afternoon, all afternoon. After all I knew that. I did my research before leaving and wrote everything in a spreadsheet called When to visit, you can have a look at it…

29 August 2017

The trip begins

So eventually I decided to leave. 6-7 months of travel. That’s the maximum I’m a allowed not to break my continuous residency in the UK, permitted that in this period I would continue to work and produce invoices. I spoke with an immigration lawyer before leaving and that should be fine. To start I went for about 3 weeks to…

2 July 2017

Should I stay or should I go?

I decided, I’m going to travel for at least 6-7 months in Asia. I’ll be working remotely as freelancer from exotic locations. If things work out I can even stay longer, like a year or who knows. I want to be free. Why not? After all the only things I need are my laptop and an internet connection. I found…

30 December 2016

2016. A year designing and travelling

My 2016 has been characterised by the focus on my freelance activity. During the first months I’ve been updating my personal brand. While from July, I started working properly as freelancer. At the same time, after more than a year stuck between university and full-time job, I took advantage of the new freedom to travel a bit around. JANUARY: The…

17 May 2016

Facial Recognition App works out identities with 70% reliability

About a year ago I realised a speculative design project on face recognition, which might change people relationship and ways to interact. Well that’s no longer speculative design, it exist and it was predictable. Surely it might be seen as something creepy, but as the FindFace (that’s the name of the app) co-founder Kabakov says we can’t stop technological progress,…