Fast forward to her current lifestyle, Charlotte’s days are far from mundane, and her partner Charlon is there to back her “every step of the way”.

“Thankfully, I don’t follow a routine, but of course, on weekdays, I’d need to get in eight hours of work, more or less. Then I’d spend the rest of the time exploring whichever city I’m visiting,” she described.

“I’m currently in Saudi Arabia,” Charlotte shared with the newsroom, adding that “since it’s quite warm to do anything during the day,” herself and Charlon work until around 4pm and then go out to explore their whereabouts – “it could be a football game, a mosque, the beach or whatever points we had marked on our maps.”

Reflecting on what motivated her to embrace the digital nomad lifestyle, Charlotte revealed that growing up, she “only dreamt of scoring a ‘steady’ nine-to-five corporate job”. “However, as time went by, it wasn’t something I truly wanted to do anymore,” she continued.

“During the second year into my relationship with Charlon, we started travelling – nothing like we’re doing at the moment but we used to go on short trips to random countries, mainly around Europe,” she said, adding that the couple used to save up all their money so that they could “escape the routine as much as possible”.

“However, after coming back home from every trip, we always felt like wanting to do more,“ she continued – and this very feeling is what pushed the pair to leave everything behind and take the leap, just a few months after the COVID pandemic devastated the globe.

She explained how her and Charlon backpacked throughout most of the pandemic, and had some pretty discouraging moments, like getting rejected from flights and borders, and sleeping rough under bridges, due to their “tight budget”.

“We hitchhiked and couch-surfed for seven months from North Iraq, through Turkey, Albania, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Croatia and Slovenia,” Charlotte said.

She detailed how her and Charlon bought a tandem bike twice, once in Turkey, where the pair cycled from Antalya to North Macedonia, and once in Portugal, where they cycled from Coimbra to Santiago de Compostela.

After their hitchhiking trip, the couple later made their way across Scotland, the UK, Latvia, Belgium, and Luxemburg.

Some time later, the pair spent two months in India, Charlotte’s dream destination, where she got “major” food poisoning. 

This adventure was followed by a subsequent month travelling through several European countries.

After touring several other countries including Romania, Morocco, Portugal, Andorra, Lebanon and Syria, the pair headed on an eight-month trip through Asia.

Charlotte admitted that of all the countries she visited, Japan was her favourite, saying that the country’s vibe, food, people, and prices were hard to beat.

When asked what one of their wildest experiences throughout their entire journey was, Charlotte recalled that one time, the pair ended up in the middle of a tea smuggling operation when trying to cross the border to No Man’s Land.

“The soldiers at the border did not let us cross on foot, telling us that the only way was by car,” Charlotte recalled. A generous group of individuals offered the couple a lift across the border, however, it soon turned out that they were smuggling tea, and the couple were somewhat used as pawns in the middle of the operation.

While stating that she wouldn’t trade her life for anything, Charlotte admitted that the pair’s lifestyle does indeed have its difficulties.

“We have normal jobs, as we would have living back home, along with other things that crop up, like for example, health issues,” the digital nomad said, explaining that juggling all this while hopping from one place to another proves difficult at times.

While Charlotte admitted to missing some aspects of her past life, “like not having to worry about little things like laundry, or having more than five outfits to wear,” she explained that she wouldn’t trade her current life for anything.

“I think that now that I’ve lived this for the past few years, I can’t go back to that just because this life allows me to live every day to the fullest. I can’t imagine going back to the office life,” she continued.

Charlotte then explained that the couple spends between four to nine months travelling, after which they go back home for about a month to “recharge” and then “do it all over again”.

“Until our families got used to our lifestyle, it wasn’t easy. However, I think they’re getting the hang of it now. Goodbyes are less difficult now,” Charlotte explained.

Regarding others outside of the couple’s circle, Charlotte admitted to feeling like there is “a major misconception” that they are on this “never-ending holiday” – “it’s so far away from the truth,” she exclaimed.

Would you take the leap and become a digital nomad like Charlotte and Charlon?