Masia One – Far East Empress
Nov01

Masia One – Far East Empress

The Masia One and Only This week on DigitalNomad.Blog we profile reggae queen of Asia, Masia One, with her first new album in four years: Far East Empress. In recent weeks we featured other talented global friends – Thumpermonkey (UK) and Strangers on a Plane (Canada), and this week we introduce long-time confidante, Masia One. About Masia One Masia One Masia One is truly international. The confident and acclaimed artist was...

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The Mountains of Zakopane
Oct26

The Mountains of Zakopane

In the middle of the week, four of us headed to the Polish mountainside town of Zakopane. At the foot of the Tatra mountain range, and two hours south from Krakow, Zakopane is considered the “winter capital of Poland”. While popular year round, the town’s population is a little under 30,000 people. With nearby ski and snowboard slopes, the town is home to many of the affluent, from Poland, Russia and other...

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Reprogramming Ourselves From The Comforts of Home
Oct19

Reprogramming Ourselves From The Comforts of Home

Sunset in Zielonki, as painted by Czupur the cat We return to a “normal” rhythm here at DigitalNomad.Blog. My new workmates think I am extraordinary Like one of those things pretty much everybody else in most of the world has: A home, a routine, abundant cuddles. Travel has slowed down. I’ve been building a home and relationships from a warm, comfortable, loving house near Krakow, Poland. Considering that life has...

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Wonderful Weekend in Warsaw
Oct05

Wonderful Weekend in Warsaw

Bridge on the Vistula River, Warsaw. Photo by Magdalena Dziewic On my third visit to Poland’s capital, I enjoyed a terrific weekend in Warsaw. My first time was a simple rush from north to south of the city on the Metro, transferring cross-country buses. The second, we stayed in a nice apartment, but in a quiet and sketchy area, not impressed with the nearby old quarter area, overrun by tourists. Third time lucky, Warsaw showed...

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Final Echoes at the Elbphilharmonie
Sep28

Final Echoes at the Elbphilharmonie

In a flurry of final notes and applause around the walls of Hamburg’s magnificent Elbphilharmonie, the much-anticipated David August concert came to a close. This marked the last hurrah of my book, Plan Sea, started around a year ago, concluding with the lessons learned from remote working on the road. Life is so much more than work, and must be balanced as such, as we work to live, and live to work, but neither should be more...

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Breakfast in Riga, Sunset Berlin
Sep21

Breakfast in Riga, Sunset Berlin

Last weekend was spent in Palanga, Lithuania The Baltic trip is complete, in a big, rushed finale to a mission that started around six weeks ago. Despite some initial fears and anxieties, not the least of which was virtually no budget for any of this, everything was OK in the end, as it almost always is. In fact, it was another one of those magical adventures, void of expectations, a general idea of a route, and then steadfastly...

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