{"id":46,"date":"2016-10-02T03:14:23","date_gmt":"2016-10-02T03:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenomadicyear.com\/blog\/?p=46"},"modified":"2016-10-04T20:16:30","modified_gmt":"2016-10-04T20:16:30","slug":"research-and-planning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenomadicyear.com\/blog\/research-and-planning\/","title":{"rendered":"Research and planning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>After some research, I ended up with a huge lists of great places (destinations) around the world. Now the thing is: 1. they&#8217;re too many to choose from, and 2. some of these great places aren&#8217;t so great in present days.<\/p>\n<h3>Destinations Filtering <em>(aka. Itinerary Design)<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>I&#8217;ve chosen a few criteria to further research these destinations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>visa requirements: I have to be able to get there;<\/li>\n<li>affordability: I should afford to fly and live there;<\/li>\n<li>safety: I don&#8217;t wanna die there;<\/li>\n<li>weather: I want an endless summer!;<\/li>\n<li>appeal: I have to like it (beaches, islands, mountains).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Visa Requirements<\/h4>\n<p>For Romanian citizens, here&#8217;s a list with the visa requirements for (almost) all countries: https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0B1Spew9GOmzCOHBUYnN1aGd3NkU\/view?usp=sharing<\/p>\n<p>For other citizenship, you can use this site to check visa requirements: https:\/\/www.visahq.com\/citizens\/<\/p>\n<h4>Affordability<\/h4>\n<p>Until I find a balance between work and travel, I will try to be more economic, so for now I&#8217;m gonna focus on accommodation prices between 200 &#8211; 400 USD (600 USD at most). There&#8217;s plenty of options.<\/p>\n<p>As for transportation, I&#8217;m flying with low-cost airlines as AirAsia, Aeroflot, VietJet, Wizzair, and others. I&#8217;m trying to tackle this aspect by developing a cheap flight itinerary finder &#8212; a tool named <a href=\"https:\/\/flight.cat\/\" target=\"_blank\">Flight.Cat<\/a>. For now is more of a prototype, working with only one low-cost airline, Wizzair, which only flies in Europe.<\/p>\n<h4>Safety<\/h4>\n<p>Safety is a very important factor for me, so while filtering destinations I&#8217;ve used a lot the information and advice found at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/foreign-travel-advice\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/foreign-travel-advice<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Global_Peace_Index\" target=\"_blank\">Global Peace Index<\/a> (which is a countries ranking of\u00a0 &#8220;peacefulness&#8221; index).<\/p>\n<h4>Weather<\/h4>\n<p>I aim for warm &amp; dry weather, so for all the destinations I used extensively www.accuweather.com to document weather past weather measurements &amp; future predictions. From this effort resulted a few tools:<br \/>\n&#8211; a <a href=\"https:\/\/thenomadicyear.com\/weather\/map\" target=\"_blank\">Weather Map<\/a>;<br \/>\n&#8211; a table with recommended travel periods &#8212; the <a href=\"https:\/\/thenomadicyear.com\/weather\/best\" target=\"_blank\">Best Conditions<\/a> tool;<br \/>\n&#8211; a table with monthly averages (min.\/max.\/avg. temperatures and precipitations) for each destination &#8212; the <a href=\"https:\/\/thenomadicyear.com\/weather\/best\" target=\"_blank\">Monthly Report<\/a> tool.<\/p>\n<h4>Appeal<\/h4>\n<p>After being a long time devotee of mountains, snow and snowy mountains, I&#8217;m now looking forward to dip my ass into warm seas and take naps between palms.<br \/>\nThis being said, I&#8217;m gonna try to stay close to oceans, seas, islands and warm\/hot weather. In the search of an endless summer, so to speak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>After some research, I ended up with a huge lists of great places (destinations) around the world. Now the thing is: 1. they&#8217;re too many to choose from, and 2. some of these great places aren&#8217;t so great in present days. Destinations Filtering (aka. 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