Many of you will know that during this last week, I moved from Spain to Italy. Being a digital nomad has all sorts of strange, weird and wonderful ways of allowing you to experience life, and one of my aims with this blog is to show anyone who wants to be an online service provider, how life can be as a digital nomad. In this post I am going to recollect my latest move, which is the first time I have ever done this, so you can see that when you want to go somewhere, you simply do it, and go…
It’s a bit random, but I thought I would throw this in here, I found it really funny, I love people watching, so I am sharing it. Before I left Spain I went to one of my old “Blogging” haunts, where I used to go and write many of the posts in this blog, I wanted a final memory from the place, and to say goodbye, and rather strangely, and keeping this real…. this is the last memory Spain provided me with in the video below… In a way this will always remind me how funny life can be there 
The 48 Hour Journey To Becoming Rich
So, the journey took around 2 days in total, it started at around 3am last Friday morning when I got up to prepare for my 9 hour (not including stops) drive to Barcelona from Malaga, with my husband, 2 kids and my new Tom Tom… I have never used a Tom Tom before and OMG – it’s been amazing, if you are a digital nomad and you drive, get one, it’s the best investment I made this year, seriously… We reduced all our worldly possessions into a Honda Shuttle with a roof box and took off…
We left at 4.30am and arrived in Barcelona at around 5.30pm to be pulled to the side at a ferry port checkpoint by the Guardia Civil (a police officer), this guy told us that there were no ferries sailing from Barcelona to Civitacecchia that day, and I was fit to burst after he said that… we later discovered the Grimaldi ferry lines office which confirmed that my online early check in (hey I’m a VA, we do everything online) was not in vain, and we picked up the tickets for our 22.15 sailing.
7.40pm on Saturday we arrived in Civitacecchia and began our Journey to Le Marche, where we arrived just after midnight on Sunday.
So what has happened since then…
Well, the kids I have to admit are still taking their time to settle in, and I believe my 3 year old would like to return to Spain, however I am hopeful I can convince him this move was worth it. My daughter who is 2 had issues with the ‘wet room’ and demanded a bath, so we now have a large plastic utility container we sit her in that people usually use for storing tomatoes, which seems to be doing the trick, and finally I have my view and my very tasty €1.40 bottle of Pinot Grigio (I know in these video’s I look like an alcoholic, but seriously I like to enjoy a nice glass of Vino with a meal at the end of a day – How can you not when living in countries that produce such great wine at a fraction of the price in the UK!)… The whole reason I waited so long to come to Italy, was the most breathtaking, panoramic view of the countryside here and in the video above, I hope you will catch a glimpse of why I do this, and what becoming a Virtual Assistant could mean for you if you have any inclination at all to live this kind of life and embrace this kind of nomadic freedom, which started for me in Egypt in 2005.
All in all, I thank the heavens for the Internet and for the business I have that allows me to pursue my dreams in life… I am not a millionaire, in fact, I worry about bills, overheads, tax and outgoings just as much as the next average Joe, I think it’s always in our nature to worry about these things, through repetition or habit, but I am, without a doubt, and with all honesty, rich beyond my wildest dreams – (and it took 2 days to get here). Because I am a Virtual Assistant, and I am free, I control my destiny, and you can too, and that is something you can never put a price on. Where do you want to be? Near the Mediterranean coast in a beachfront apartment? In Spain in a villa, or in the French Alps in a log cabin? Maybe a bungalow in Thailand – The choice is yours – This time I chose an old medieval stone building with a panoramic view of the Italian countryside, sunflowers and vineyards as far as the eye can see… It’s my little piece of temporary heaven for the next several months, it’s not difficult to achieve if you have the right mindset to let go of the past and the ties that bind you to your existing life. You can be rich… with life…
At the end of anyone’s life nobody turns around and says, “Did you waste your time or did you use your time productively?” because there is only one way someone can use their time productively and that is to enjoy the experience and the feeling of being alive, if you don’t enjoy your life, it doesn’t matter how successful you were financially, or how ‘rich’ you became in a conventional sense of the word, you wasted the most incredible opportunity of all, which was the chance to stretch the limits and feel how happy you could be while you were alive.
What do you want to do in life? What would make you rich?
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