 So today I'm not here to talk about a new API, an amazing software, anything technical, not at all. Today I'm here to talk to you about turtles, or I'm here today to talk about foreign culture ceremonies, or some weird food. So some weird food. This is food in some countries. This is from Cambodia, this is South Korea, and this is Philippines. I'm here to talk about freedom. Freedom can take many forms, and the one that I will be focusing on today is freedom of travel. My name is Luc. I work for a company based in Chicago called Prometsource. I'm a solution architect and I focus on architecture for Drupal and complex implementation of Drupal on large projects. And I do all of this remotely, so I don't go to the office every day, and my life in 2017 was not like this. Is there people from India? Because I presented this before and someone said, yeah, yeah, this is India. This is definitely India. So yeah, my life in 2017 was not like this. My life in 2017 was this. So this is the list of the countries that I visited for a period between a couple of days to a couple of months. So I went to France, Philippines, Japan, Thailand, Australia, Belgium, Italy, Morocco, Hong Kong, Taiwan. And to illustrate this remotely thing, the new freedom we can enjoy as developers, here is an office. It's a beautiful big office in San Francisco, and you may know the company behind it. It's the company that runs WordPress. They are called Automatic. And so they closed the office. They had this beautiful space in San Francisco, but nobody wants to go there. They said to the employee, you can either work from home or you can go to the office. It's up to you. And everybody stayed home. Because offices are killers. They are freedom killers. My idea is that offices, they can be great, but they also have very tricky aspects. So usually offices means crowd. It means traffic. It means office hours, waste of time, and it's expensive. So that's a good example. So this is the price of the 20 most expensive cities in the world. And this is Singapore. So you know exactly what I'm talking about. Singapore is one of the most expensive cities in the world. It's on the map. There's also London, Paris. So all those places are very, very popular business places. It's very, very expensive to live there. And the quality of life you will have in those places. Well, you could have a much better life, work balance, or a better environment in smaller places which are cheaper. And talking about office hours, this is cinema during business hours. So if you have the freedom to adjust also your schedule, and if you have more freedom, then you can go to the cinema during business hours. So that's another part of the freedom that we have access to. If you want to take freedom to the next level, so here is a couple of tips. The first and the main one is that if you want to travel more, you have to travel cheap. But what's even better is to travel smart. So I developed a couple of skills into detecting coupons and codes in order to travel more. So for example, if you need to take a flight, if you need to go somewhere remotely to take a plane basically, I recommend a couple of tools that you can use to compare. So here is one. All the companies that I'm going to notice, I don't have any profit or any shares on those companies. I just share it because I like the tools. That's it. So here is one of them. It's called Sky Scanner. And there's another one, kayak.com. Be careful not all of the companies are inside of those sites. And sometimes it's an API reason, I guess. So you have to go to the site separately. In the Philippines, the famous one is Cebu Pacific. Cebu Pacific does not appear on Sky Scanner or other comparison tools. So you still have to use separate websites. Compare hotels. There's a different solution for hotels. If you want to spend one night only, I recommend that you use a comparison tool and you take the cheapest. TripAdvisor has a great tool that would give you a couple of websites and you get the cheapest place. If you want to stay more than one night, I recommend you to use this website called Hotels.com. The big advantage of Hotels.com is that it gives you one free night every 10 nights. So it computes the average price of the 10 nights that you bought and it gives you one voucher of that amount. I used that a lot and I had, I don't know, maybe 10 nights so far for free. So that's pretty good. Another thing is to check for coupon discount. You just write Hotels.com space code on Google and you can find 10%. Talk to me after this session. I can give you 11% discount. I have codes. I receive this by email and this is very useful. Another solution, Airbnb. If you stay for example one week to one month, they may offer you minus 25% to minus 50%. Get a bank that is 24 hours with support. That's very, very useful. If you arrive in a country and your card doesn't work, then you definitely want 24 hours support. This is a bank in Europe. It's called N26. The big advantage of N26 is that it includes travel insurance as long as you buy the plane tickets with that card. And it also provides you no fee when you withdraw outside of Europe. So if I withdraw in here in Singapore with this card, there's no fee. Yeah, go where your friends are. If you have friends in Australia, go to Australia, go to visit them. The best place to travel remotely, to work remotely and to travel is to visit your friends. This is where you get the best advice. Yeah, buy smart when you travel. So a couple of advice that I can give you is only buy what you need. That's pretty obvious. Don't buy any extra stuff. Buy little, travel light. Look for promos, discounts, voucher codes, and check for good places to buy. If you go, for example, to a place where there is outlets, find some outlets store so you can buy cheaper stuff. Secure your Wi-Fi. You need Wi-Fi when you travel. Get a pocket Wi-Fi or get a nearby coffee shop. Try to find places where you can have Wi-Fi. If you want to go nomad, nomad, that's people who don't have any local place where they stay for a very long time. They keep on traveling all the time. I did a bit last year, but some people do that all the time. So there's a nomad list that's to help you compare countries. Work from, that's to find co-working space. And if you want some Drupal events around the globe, you can use Drupal code. And I give you a last piece of advice is how I just traveled to Japan for free. So I'm going to give you plane tickets. Sorry, but it's true. I traveled for free to Japan just two days ago. And this is how I did it. This is a trick with Apple. I needed a new laptop, Apple. And the model of laptop that I wanted, MacBook Pro, was 22% cheaper in Japan. So the difference is actually pretty big. In France, the price of the laptop was 2,488 euros. And I paid in Japan 1,941. The difference is 527 euros, which covers the price of the ticket from the Philippines, which is 250, and also the price of the hotel that I had for a couple of days. So this is how I traveled for free. And you can do the same if you use this website, applecompass.com. In Hong Kong, Apple delivers two hotels. So if you need to order online, you can stay there. It was a bit more complicated in Japan, but it worked. One of the last piece of advice that I have is that I don't want to tell everyone to travel as much as I did in 2017. The last thing we need is every developer to pollute as much as I did in 2017. So if you really want to travel, then please consider contributing to your carbon footprint and help some charities such as Carbon Found that helps non-profit people and helps the environment with projects. Some ideas, you don't have to go very far if you want to enjoy the freedom of travel. Just pick up a good spot that you can reach with 3G, 4G, have a picnic, go camping with 3G, 4G, go to a new coffee shop in your area. You don't have to go very far. The main idea is to enjoy freedom and to embrace the fact and the liberty that we have as remote workers. That's pretty much it. You can contact me on Twitter, Instagram. If you want more photos of travel, definitely Instagram. And also, I'm the organizer of Kruppel Camp Cebu, which I am happy to announce the date today. It's going to be November 17. Cebu is in the Philippines and is famous for Results Beach. People are telling me that I'm in TimeZop. Thank you very much.