I live in Norway now, and let me be honest, it’s freakin’ cold there. So I decided to move my office to South Africa and the Seychelles for one month. Here’s how it went.

I’ve started a social media management company. I’m the only employee and I can work from anywhere. Every six months I go somewhere new for one month and I work from there. This time I chose Africa.

Just hanging at the beach thinking about everything I should’ve done!

The Seychelles, where I spent my two first weeks, was the most picturesque place I’ve ever been. But...
There’s always a but!

They had absolutely no WiFi on the entire island. (Correct me if I’m wrong.)
Even though we stayed at a 4.5 star resort, they didn’t have a decent connection to the rest of the world.
Shocking.

This would maybe have been nice if I was there on vacay.

But I was there to work, so I got pretty frustrated when I realized on day one that getting anything done would be difficult. I also got a bit stresses on behalf of my clients. But there wasn’t anything I could do about it. So I did this instead:

I pretend like it’s no big deal, but this is how I really felt about the WiFi situation:

Very important side note:

The scarf I’m wearing in the pic above is bought at the souvenir shop at the resort because the airline lost our luggage. I wouldn’t be caught dead in this outfit.

So when I couldn’t work I took a long bath and ordered ice cream to my room instead. That’s what you do on vacation. Right?

The lesson I learned from remote working on a tropical paradise island is this:

Just don’t do it

After the two weeks at the Seychelles it was time to go to South Africa. When I landed it Cape Town and noticed that my phone picked up about 6382861 WiFi connections I knew I was in the right place. I had so much work to catch up on.

I squeezed in some hours of work at my hotel room the first day.

Then I teamed up with two friends from Norway who also came there to work.
We rented a house on Airbnb so that we could all work from there. It’s a three bedroom and three bathroom house located in Green Point, a quiet and nice neighborhood right outside the city center.

We all got sick of the cold in Norway and wanted to be somewhere else.

Cape Town hasn’t disappointed us at all. The place is amazing in all aspects. The food is probably my favorite thing about the city.

We’re fortunate enough to know the co founder of Woo Commerce and he hooked us up with an office space in their headquarters in CT! It was just so nice to finally have great WiFi and a desk. I had some super productive days here.

I’m finally caught up with everything and on track again. It’s been a great month all in all, and I’ve managed to get e pretty decent tan too.

To sum this up

• Working from a typical honeymoon destination is not a good idea.

• Working from Cape Town is the best idea I’ve ever had. Except for signing up on Steemit.

• I donated the scarf to someone that needed it more than me! 😂

• I don’t know where my next destination is. I’m open for suggestions.

Susanne