Curie

This post may contain affiliate links. Read my Disclosure statement. The premise behind Remote Year is to keep your job and see the world with a group of like-minded travellers. Each month we move from one country to another, exploring ourselves and our world along the way. As a food & travel photographer, the photo opportunities are endless. As are the learning opportunities. After a...

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I had a moment. It was when I was typing in search tags into my YouTube window, preparing a video that was scheduled to go live the following week. I would type possible tags into the search window and almost every search term was linking to an incredibly popular YouTuber. It was 2 in the morning.  I leaned back from my computer screen and peered...

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Lisbon and Portugal blew me away (more on that coming). It’s hard to sum up my favorite things about the city in just 10 bullet points, but I’m going to try.  1. Street Art It’s everywhere. It covers the entire city, including all the historical monuments. Normally, I get kind of irritated by that but here it adds such a richness and feel to the...

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It can be tricky deciding how much of what you care about is you, and how much of it is what your culture has told you is valuable. I often feel this push and pull when it comes to working on my passions. Editing is lonely work, it needs to be done in quiet and it takes hours of intense concentration. But our culture, and...

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This post may contain affiliate links. Read my Disclosure statement. One of my goals this year is to up my game in street photography. Starting in Lisbon, Portugal with Remote Year is truly one of the best travel destinations in the world to capture some compelling street photography shots. When you first hit the streets of Lisbon you may think it’s a bit chaotic. I know...

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I don't think of myself as an angry person. But this is in the context of Washington, D.C., where our politics are poisonous and the well-meaning liberals who want to change the world are gentrifying the city block by block. I consider myself one of those "go with the flow types", generally believing that everything will work out and that when life acts up all...

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It’s weird to think that I’ve been traveling for almost 2 months now, and almost all of that has been international. It’s even weirder to think that I’ve been living in Lisbon for five weeks and it completely feels like home. So much so that the idea of moving to Croatia tomorrow fills me with anxiety, and leaves me a little bit sad. Leave Lisbon?...

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This post may contain affiliate links. Read my Disclosure statement. Adventures abound when you’re travelling the world as a digital nomad with Remote Year. Our third week in the Lisbon area of Portugal was a wild frenzy of fun — a new travel experience every day! Included in our monthly fees for Remote Year are 3 local experience “tracks”, which are curated, authentic experiences that...

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I can't imagine what it was like for those first few subscribers to click on my Youtube channel when I first started it in January of 2017. They watched one video, liked what they saw, and decided they cared enough to subscribe--with nothing else on my page. Without knowing me at all.Without any other example that I could create meaningful content.I always knew I would have...

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Ia Wik is a 24 year old Swede living in the nation’s capital, Stockholm. As fashionable as she is funny, she also happens to be my best friend’s sister. Like most of the people I’ve met in their twenties, she’s trying to figure out how to make her passions a reality and where she fits. If she’s not working or studying, she’s listening to podcasts,...

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