Hey guys from the Bansko Ski Lift!
I'm Kristin and you're watching a daily livestream here on my channel traveling with Kristin.
I just realized it's possible
that my microphone is
hidden in here.
Let's try to find it. Where is it?
So you can hear me. How's this of you?
Right, yeah. Okay. Let's try with this. Let's try again just in case you couldn't hear that. So I'm, yeah, nice ski here.
Hello from the
mountains of Bansko, Bulgaria.
Hanging out at the "Challenvelog" Ski Lifts,
one of the lower ones. Just gonna do a couple laps and then ski right to the co-working space.
So as you guys know, I'm doing daily live streams this year.
With something different about the digital Nomad lifestyle everytime. And today I just was inspired to talk about
the
very realistic ability of being able to
live at a ski resort
because why not because you can because you work on the internet. And
this is something that even took me a few years to
really come to terms with. I've been a digital nomad for
over ten years or I've been living and working abroad for almost like 14 years now. And
yeah, this is the first season I've ever spent at a ski resort and
it's totally possible, you know here there's a lot of people on holiday.
Obviously, that's what you do if you get to ski at all. You're lucky enough, right, but
most people get to go maybe once a year or once every couple of years and
when you're a digital nomad, I just want to
show you guys how
practical and
enjoyable and realistic it is to be able to base yourself for a few months out of a place like this.
Instead of paying really steep prices for daily lift tickets or for your
accommodations,
and for food you're able to rent a place
long-term for a couple months. In this case, for just a few hundred euro per month,
the place I am now is 250 euro per month, but because February is the busiest time of year,
I'm actually paying double in the next place that I'm moving into.
But still,
500 euro a month to be able to live at a ski resort and
eat like a local, get your season pass or get discounted rates to be able to pay
25 euro per day on the lift and to always have somebody to ski with.
For example here, there are three locations of the co-working space co-working Bansko
which you may have seen my video this Wednesday, which was a
overview of the co-working space here, an interview with other digital nomads as to why they like living in Bansko.
So we have a messenger group and every day there's at least
one or two people skiing so you always have a friend to ski with and everyone's on a similar rhythm,
everyone's skiing in the morning, working in the afternoon or
working five or six days a week and then skiing one or two days a week and it's just a really good vibe and
it's really fun. And there's a lot of there's actually some people who I know passing through here.
Move up a bit.
It's so pretty and
they're all on holiday. So
they're basically just trying to eat, drink and ski or snowboard as much as possible. And
they're finding it really difficult to comprehend that I'm here to work. I haven't skied in the past week
so it's like, I really only
take time away from work when I feel like I can.
But being able to see the ski lifts in the Gondola from my house and
to have the option of jumping on the slopes for a couple hours in the morning and then going to work,
have it be a sustainable lifestyle is just something that's really cool that no one ever told me I could do.
And it's just something that I
kind of stumbled into after so many years of
living and working abroad. I was like why not spend the season at a ski resort?
You know,
I usually only get to go snowboarding once every few years or a few days a year if I'm lucky.
So instead of paying the same amount for one week,
why don't I just hang out here for a month or so?
So that's what I'm doing and I just want you guys to know that it's totally doable. And there's
at least fifty or a hundred other digital nomads here doing the same thing. So it's a beautiful sunny day.
Here's the view of the town.
So I'm just gonna go down and there is
my apartment at the bottom.
But it's pretty crazy that there's a co-working space.
Literally a two minute walk from the gondola. How awesome is that? And I've heard that they're doing this in other places,
Well, like whips like Whistler and
a few other places in Canada. Of course,
it's more expensive but there's just like a ton of people out there in the world who are digital nomads,
hanging out in a ski resort for the season working at a co-working space next to the Gondola and just living their lives. So, uh.
Here's some digital nomads now. Hey, I'm live-streaming.
Hey Peter, its Peter and his brother. I was just saying, I
was just saying how awesome it is and how realistic it is to just base yourselves,
ah out of a, out of a ski resort for the season.
And just get to hang out with other digital nomads, and like I'm just pinching myself,
like you've been a digital nomad for years. Right a few years now. And
I have as well and just like I never get over it. It's still just as awesome as ever.
Yeah, I think I might do this every year.
So I guess we should. You don't know I'm not gonna livestream going down because we're on a black so that's not safe.
Yeah, alright guys bye from the mountains of Ski Bansko.
Peace!
Yeah, be a digital nomad then your brother can come visit you and ski.
Yes.