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Martinican hospitality in Paris
Yesterday we drove from Bavaria to Paris with Monique, Christophe’s aunt. She’s 86 years old, lives in Paris, and had taken the train to Bavaria last Monday so she too could spend some time with Noah and Malea. It had started to snow yesterday and it hadn’t stopped all night, so in the morning, there…
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Banking blues part 2: TransferWise incompatible with PayPal and Stripe
“If it were easy, everybody would be doing it”. This is something we say to each other very often. Currently almost on a daily basis. So we thought we had found an affordable and easy solution for our banking challenge in the form of TransferWise. It worked with PayPal, right? And we only had to…
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We are not on holiday!
We arrived in Bavaria at Christophe’s family home last Saturday evening. It is so nice to see everybody again, especially the grand children! I never expected to have any, but since Christoohe has two grandchildren (and a third on the way) who are going to grow up with me as their grandfathers partner, I have…
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Banking blues connecting PayPal to TransferWise
If you do not spend more than 180 days in a country, you are not considered a resident, and therefore, tax exempt. So, from this year on, as digital nomads, we won’t have to pay any taxes anymore. And that is 100% legal. It makes founding a company plus everything that is involved in that…
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Today is the first day of the rest of our lives
This is true for every day, but particularly today. Let me explain. Since the 1st of February, I am out of a job. Before that, I was a sales administrator in a Dutch company that sells medical equipment. It was my first job for an employer, after having been self employed for 20 years, and…
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The beginning…
Ours is a modern love story. It started on January 1st 2017. In order to explain you the full story, I will have to start a bit earlier. Early September 2016, I ended a relationship I had been in for over 6 years. The relationship had become so difficult for me that it made me…