Travelling and Trading

Hi All,

I intend to travel next year throughout Europe in a campervan.
I am starting this thread in the hope that someone may be either doing this or looking to do this in the future.

First thoughts -

Initially to trade while traveling there needs to be good internet access.

I'm aware that there are a number of mobile devices that offer or create there own wifi hotspot, as well as more expensive options using satellite dishes.

After that, is the question of whether using laptops or tablets is best, or even setting up PC in the van.

My intention is to be able to go off grid for the most part, and sometimes on sites but at all times be able to trade.

So if anyone has any knowledge or experience of doing this or planning for the future please contribute.

I would prefer to centre the discussion around independent traveling not just city to city-hotel to hotel, perhaps even in a boat sailing the seas.

Thanks in advance and look forward to your contribution

Love this thread already Steve!

I also have wanderlust and have lived on a boat, in a van and in a house without wifi (and trading for most of those times!).

My style of trading might be very different from yours but I have managed with a good (UK) data contract on my iPhone and either used my iPhone for trading or turned my iPhone into a hotspot and connected my laptop to the internet via that. In fact, I am currently sat in Portugal typing this on my MacBook using my iPhone's hotspot.

It is very do-able. Oh and my tech has been charged up via a 12V system run off portable solar panels.

We are so lucky to have this stuff available. When I lived on a boat we didn't have satellite internet but used the wifi provided when in marinas (and when close enough to shore to be able to pick up a mobile phone signal). I think the satellite option has come down a lot in price since then though.

I came across a trader a couple of years ago who travels around Europe house-sitting. But then he has wifi in pretty much every property he sits.

Good luck, I would love to know how you get on!

TS