My triple entry Thai visa has been used and abused, I’m all out of entries and it’s completely expired so after first coming to Thailand on September 1st 2014, I left for Oslo on May 10th 2015 to meet a friend of mine and for operation Europe!

Weightloss

I got weighed recently and was down from 99kg to 77kg so a total loss of 22kg since I left the UK. That’s 48 1/2 lbs or 3 stone and 6 1/2 lbs. There’s still more to go, maybe another 10kg but I’m extremely happy with my results. The weight was lost the right way, with healthy diet and exercise. I’m currently wearing 34″ shorts.

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I’ve spent the majority of my stay on Soi Tad-ied staying in the BM Guest House which was nice enough and covered the basics, single room, cheap (12,000 THB / £240 pm), great bed, working air con, separate shower room, balcony, cleaned weekly, but lacked on luxury, a tiny TV that was miles away from the bed making watching anything on it a bit pointless and Internet that didn’t really work. The state of the generic, consumer ADSL on the street is a nightmare featuring regular, daily, intermittent outages, not to mention you’re going to be sharing one 500K connection between 30 other people. Whilst I was able to get work done, it was frustrating and we’d tend to end up meeting up at one of the local restaurants to get work done.

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If you’re a digital nomad, meeting other nomads and entrepreneurs as you travel should be pretty high on your agenda. The benefits of tapping in to the accumulated wealth of local and business knowledge will make a huge difference to your travelling experience and potentially open you up to new business ideas and opportunities you may not have realised.

I’ve been using 4 main resources whilst I’ve been moving around to connect with people, make friends and create opportunities.

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Usually in the UK I carry a leather bifold wallet with a dozen cards, driving license, etc and if I’m lucky, some cash. This was fine then when I was wearing jeans with 4 pockets or a coat, but out here I seem to live in board shorts that only have one small side pocket that also needs to hold my phone and my keys!

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One of the cool things that Unit-27 do is offer a body composition service combined with a meal plan service at the Muscle Bar restaurant. They have some magic, electronic scales which will work out your fat and muscle composition, then based on that and your exercise levels they put together a meal plan so you can reach your goals. The body composition service is also extremely expensive for what it is.

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Whilst I have an iPhone 5s, which has a great camera and is very portable, sometimes I want to level up my photography so also bought a [amazon text=Sony RX100&asin=B00K7O2DJU] Mk 2. The Mk 3 is out now, which has a few bonus features but the principle and benefits are the same. The quality of the photos compared to the size of the camera is insane and the main benefit. On it’s own, the Sony RX100 is pocket size but with a case. The photos I’ve taken of the camera itself were taken on my iPhone but the photos below were taken with the [amazon text=Sony RX100&asin=B00K7O2DJU] II.

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That’s how Ho Chi Minh was described to me. If Chiang Mai is high school then Ho Chi Minh is college for digital nomads, and it certainly felt that way as everyone I met was a lot further in to their career path than the people I met in Chiang Mai. Ho Chi Minh is also a mecca for members of the Dynamite Circle which might explain the prevalence of more mature businesses and entrepreneurs out there. At one point I was lucky enough to have dinner with several millionaires so it was good to talk about aspects of business other than bootstrapping for a change.

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Having a USB stick on hand is always useful, especially as a digital nomad. I’m always meeting people and finding myself needing to share large files or photos. I seem to always be collaborating with someone about something new idea as we mastermind on projects, or finding myself simply swapping photographs of our shared experiences.

I’m always carrying my keys with me, so I wanted something small that would fit on my keyring, blending in with the keys and was rugged enough to withstand being bashed around non stop. The USB 3.0, Titanium [amazon text=Silicon Power 64GB Flash Drive&asin=B00O4VAL32] steps up to that plate.

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There are dozens of places around Tiger Muay Thai that hire bikes/scooters/mopeds. Most hotels do it, Tiger Muay Thai does it, and there are a few independent places on the street that specialise in it. I hired a bike from 2Home when I was staying there, naively, and paid 2000 THB (£40) for a weeks worth of hire. The bike was ok, but the cost was way too much.

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The [amazon text=Gerber 22-01769 Shard Keychain Tool&asin=B002ZK45IQ] is one of the most useful, little pocket tools I’ve used. Whilst I’d like to be carrying something like a full on Leatherman multi-tool, the overly paranoid security agents won’t even let you take a cork screw on board a plane, let alone a swiss army knife. The Gerber Shard is completely innocuous however, no deadlier than a key but about a million times more useful!

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