Author Archives: Simon and Erin

Buenos Aires Highlights

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San Telmo, Buenos Aires
San Telmo, Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires! City of mystery! City of majesty! City of medialunas!

We’ve just finished our two month stint as Porteño wannabes and already we’re getting nostalgic for Barrio Norte, the residential area where we rented a beautiful apartment for two months.

Our focus was mainly on aprendering español and building up freelance work to sustain our new nomadic lifestyle, but we still found plenty of time to get out and explore the city.

And it’s a city worth exploring – we immediately fell in love with the beautiful streets; the well-dressed but friendly people; and the many things to do (and eat) – and we’d like to share with you some of our Buenos Aires highlights:

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How To Sell All Of Your Stuff – Part 1

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Photo by @paalia
Photo by Paalia

We all have stuff we don’t need.

When we decided to travel again, we knew that this time we wouldn’t return to the UK. After our last round the world trip we returned home appalled at the amount of stuff we owned. Not only that, but we hadn’t missed any of it.

Smart enough not to make the same mistake twice, it was obvious that this time it would all have to go. Turns out that this is a mammoth task. It’s a mammoth task with tusks – a woolly mammoth task, if you will. That guy in the picture? Nothing on us.

We’d accumulated so much junk over our twentymumble years that it was a time consuming and often emotionally difficult task to get rid of it all. But it has also been liberating and financially rewarding. We feel a lot freer – we haven’t missed anything (*cough*espresso machine*cough*) - and we earned a surprising amount of money towards our travel fund.

So, whether you are heading off to travel or just want to reduce your clutter, here are our top tips for offloading your junk.

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