Lessons from a minor breakdown

A couple of years ago, we experienced something of a minor breakdown. For many weeks, we had daily bouts of hiccupy sobs, bad headaches and an unbearable feeling of failure. During a particularly bad episode, Rob snot-cried his way through an entire toilet roll in two hours while I downed paracetamol like it was M&Ms. Looking back, the situation wasn’t actually that bad. We’d been working with extremely difficult and demanding clients for Mortified Cow, who seemed to hate us and need us (night and day) in equal measure. But…

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What happens when digital nomads get old?

We’d really rather not think or worry about getting old, but we have to. That’s partly because Rob’s concerns about his wrinkles and baldness – not to mention “the relentless decline in abdominal definition” – mean that whenever he’s in front of a mirror, old age is the topic of discussion for the next ten minutes or so. But we also have to think about it because at some point we’ll be too old to work on our businesses, too old to gallivant around the world at breakneck speed, and…

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The Spice Girls had it right

  When I was 12, my school friends and I wrote our “life plans” in the backs of our homework books. I wanted to be married by 22 (just like my mum), and then enjoy two years of married life before giving birth to my first child in one of those water pool thingamies without painkillers. (And if you think that’s specific, you should have seen the description of my made-up husband-to-be; it includes a hair colour of “sandy blond with streaks of blond-blond”.) Also in my plan was to…

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The 2015 packing list

OK, so here’s the thing. When we first started travelling, our philosophy was “far better to buy the cheapest cheapest clothing and replace it frequently, than buy absurdly expensive gear and run the risk of it getting ruined somehow” (or stained with soy sauce, as my clothes are wont to do). Then Hong Kong happened – where we were living in a 24-square-metre apartment with the humidity of a tropical rainforest and the window-opening capabilities of a prison. We’d wash our clothes, hang them to dry, and wait four days…

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2 months in NYC, 34 cafes

One of the many, many great things about New York is just how many fantastic wifi cafes there are – all around the city. And we managed to work our way (literally) through 34 of them. Just to be clear, that’s 34 different cafes: we went back to our favourites multiple times. Below are reviews of all of them. But in case you can’t be bothered to read through everything, here are our favourites: Top 5 spots to sit and work Freehold (Williamsburg) Stumptown Coffee Roasters (West Village) Caffebene (Union…

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