Traveling with no money | Edouard Jacqmin | TEDxZaragoza
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- Traveling with no money can teach you what you have to give instead of what you'd like to get from people you meet along the way. Being independent of money during 21 days makes you dependent on people and you can learn how to turn your fear of approaching strangers as well as you fear of being rejected in your favor.
Edouard, 24, is a composer, a songwriter and a producer from Belgium. He graduated from the Middlesex University of London in music composition in 2015 and over the past year and a half he has been releasing music and gigging. In June 2016 he took his guitar on his back and went on a 21 days moneyless journey across Eastern Europe. Through hitchhiking and asking random people in the street “Hello, can I sleep at your place tonight?” he managed to travel in 5 different countries without spending a cent. It is during this trip that he wrote his first EP ‘Happily’, released in November 2016. The EP contains the 4 songs he wrote in Slovakia, Czech Republic and Hungary. He lives in Brussels and is currently working on his first album.
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"What happens when you take money out of your life?"
"You become dependent on people."
haha
That's also you can say begger
What happens when you take money out of your life ?
"YOU GO BACK TO WORK"
I just returned back to Slovenia after cycling trough italy for 4 months. I went from capital of Slovenia (Ljubljana) all the way down to Italy (Sicily) and back (total 3000km+/-). I also did it without money. When you're a traveler in others people eyes, they want to hear your story, they don,t mind helping you out. The more expirinces you get the bigger eyes are going to watch you when you tell them your story and more and more people will want to be a part of the whole expirience by helping you. In the end of september im leaving again. This time to Spain, with bike and without any money at all.
Any tips? Doing some research and thinking about traveling Southeast Asia since I'm a beginner and its less expensive. Can you still find jobs in less developed countries by just asking around?
Wow !! Wow!!! Awesome Kristjan u just explained how is this possible...good luck for your new trips
Amazing
This is great.
"I wanted to see what happens when you take money out of a relationship."
Much respect for you
This is amazing when you through money out of your life ...you learn many new experiences ...
Mind boggling episode👍👍
I really liked this talk. I love to hitchhike too. And agree, you meet peoole you would never meet normally.
Powerful
Amazing
Fantastic
This is overwhelmingly inspiring
GREAT
Fantastic talk! Hilarious stories!! 😂😂
Now the Journey Begins..!!
Now this encourage me😏
I think you are amazing I have been wanting to see the USA and I have little money and for about three or four years now I just been wanting to feel free and go anywhere
W.T.F SKITZ yeah amazing it Isn’t such hard to fulfill the place you want to see .
awesome , same i like traveling many whole places india
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wow... only today i showed my friend the other video with same title
Very nice story ever I heard, 🙏Salut to you...
❤😍😍❤
Nice the expreriment of human activity is not bad compare our frame of now a days people not good thank you
Travelling with no money sounds like a good idea to travel in Europe or Americas or other developed countries. But you may get in serious trouble if you try this in the developing or under developed countries. I am not saying people are bad there but the number of scammers is more. I recently came across James Asquith's video where he describes his experience of being one of the youngest people to travel the world (with money off course) and it was amazing.
Bom dia!!
I feel like I've seen a TED talk like this before.
I was looking for this comment , I have heard this story before
Travelling alone and staying at random peoples house is not safe at all for womens. Then what should a woman do if she has no money in her pocket. How to travel around the world and survive without any money? How she arrange her transportation accommodation and food?
@Tedx should make a right video for women travel guiding correctly and keeping them safe.
Miss akanksha if you want to travels alone with no money then you need to trust people. Without trusting with other it's impossible to do this think.
And I know as a women what you feel but it doesn't mean whichever people give you help is not trustful.
In our world still some lovely people are ready to hospitalised you no matter what your gender is.
it's possible for women too....women in india too have done it travelled whole country by hitchiking also some even did it abroad with almost no money
I am definitely trying this
@Sudipto Das okay I'm going to be honest, I didn't go very far. I got to the asking for a free ride part and that's it. I am still using money to travel and have not tried travelling without money so far.
How's it going man?😂
I want to ask somr questions from TEDx ... i neet some answers of wich i have question but i cant find my answers
It doesn't work if you're from country with weak passport.. you have to pay to cross the border.. but again even if its free, sometime you'll face corrupted border control officer and expecting you to give them a couple of dollars.. happen alot in Asia
Brilliant! Unfortunately you can't do any of that if you are not 1-male 2-white
Kerr Setchin definitely false. Of course u can do it. There's no law against non-white girls to go on hitchhiking. If u have enough courage to leave ur comfort zone, it's more than enough.
3-EU citizen
i am asian female, i think i will be ended up on newspaper mutilated if i do this
It's definitely more dangerous as a non white female, however it is still possible
Just take some precautions and you should be fine
HIKE4LIFE same haha
I saw another video which has the same topic. I am fine with the first one but the second video made me another thought. He may not have money to travel country to country but the people he asked for help must have had money. That's why he only had the 21-day journey. If anyone did at least once in their lives, what would happen.
I'll try to do this this month of July let's see how it goes
@Manuj Madan I bet he/she is not alive anymore. Lol.
Hey man u still alive?
We do not understand therefore Please make the subtitle
and your flights to buy?
I respect that he learned to focus on what can I GIVE and to not take rejection so personally. But were you really just hitting up people for food? Couldn't you have at least offered to work for your meal?
I need it for women and this is not safe for a women... what if somone tried to do bad to u..
Need the same answer for a women to travel the world
Lmao what’s your point. Men are not all powerful beings, and if someone really wanted to harm a guy, they could. Hitchhiking is dangerous for everyone.
@@loganr0740 yeah but..worse for women, still
Hey guys do you know the story of the great wonderer alexander supertramp
Hitchhiking is a great way to end up a statistic.
Thomas Herzog what
Sorry, what do u mean bro?
I would love to travel and be free like this. Mess around and get kidnapped 🥺 people are sick
How did you get visas without any money.. ?
He lives in Europe he doesn’t need a visa
How did you fly then? Flight is the most expensive part in traveling to somewhere
Zhanara Babagulova he was getting with cars, listen
Oh, so cars are free?
Wow. Some people aren’t listening at all
The Ultimate Reductionist he hitchhiked
Do people not know what hitchhiking is lmao
India Tamil Nadu person like
how do they get Visa for all those countries when the govt demand proof of fund. can anyone tell me that ?
Imran Khan they are all countries from the eropeon union so you don’t need a visa
John Miles thank you so much John but what about other countries except EUs?
Please reply?!
European Union , they don't need visa
In my experience, the only time proof of income is required is when you are getting an extended visa.
Imran Khan Hey! If you re from Europe and want to visit another country from Europe you need just your ID card.
Traveling Aline WIth No Money As a Man**
@ankit dubey Its possible, just more risky.. humanity is still exist & not everyone will assault you as a woman.
So you are the begger!
I love hitchiking and couchsurfing but atleast you should offer them your time or with doing their work. You just took advantage of their generosity.
Um...Hitchhiking is illegal in some places and incredibly dangerous especially for women. It is also not safe for a woman to ask to stay at random peoples houses especially on vacation. I do not recommend this method for any female travelers who value their safety. Safe travels!
Exactly, women solo travellers have completely different travel experiences.....when he says that without money you become reliant on people, is exactly what women work very hard not to be. So yeah, its male specific talk...
Wrong. I have been doing this 5 years of my life and experience is same as his one. If you are scared or believe that you are in danger, then you are. I have never been in any dangerous situation by myself, the few times I was, it was because of unconsciousness of travel mates that put us in "danger". As first view you can of course just imagine that a woman hitchhiking alone is dangerous , but this is a very fast analysis. If you are aware and know how to be safe nothing will happen. We, professional woman hitchhikers now how to do it. Of course you can not just go anywhere on the road and be taking by anyone. If you ask girls like me , with broad experience, I doubt you will hear any bad story.
Obviously you haven't done it and will never have the courage to do it, just like the fear of not travelling without money but hey it's not for everyone. I know some women who have done it and do it every year.
Borislava Antova hey Borislava, m a solo traveler... Please guide me about travelling the world without much money...
Thanks in advance
@Bea R How do you make sure you're safe while hitch hiking alone?
Bro you need not to switch off internet and go out with absolute no money. You should talk about how effectively one can spend their each Penny. Disappointed of Tedx for posting videos which are not at all useful.
It's because you're white. You have so many previleges!
Happily we are not n🦍
This just makes me angry. None of these men who do this ever take five seconds to consider what it's like for a woman alone to attempt this sort of trip. It's always all about men.
northofyou33 Why do you have to detract from their experience? They are sharing with you something that completely changed their perspectives, and you are so closed minded, you refuse to accept the notion that this could be done by a woman
I believe it would be easier for a woman, but most women wouldn't push themselves to the point of travel without accomodations or luxuries they are already accustomed to.
Women expectations are filled with dangers or entitled thoughts, a woman is sometimes too proud to ask for help or deal with adversity or even simple hard work.
Women won't be able to deal with rejection and think being independent of societal norms as self destructive, you can't romanticize hitchhiking because you always have to be on your toes physically, mentally and emotionally and most women can barely control their physical means past what they represent to society.
If she is all alone she will not have the biological need to appeal towards the strongest or most alluring in the tribe, she will regress to her animalistic impulse of needs.
Women can be strong but I doubt they will be strong enough to survive a walk alone with no guarantee of help without letting go of pride and asking for help, they will merely expect it.
Why should he? He's telling his experience. He owes nothing to anyone. I understand your concern for sure, but to be angry at him is unfair.
I liked his talk. Would I do what he does? No, and for the same reasons you wouldn't, but he opened me up to considering to something I choose that would create a similar outcome: giving rather than taking. That's my takeaway from his talk.
Absolutely valueless content as it teaches us to become dependant instead of achieving freedom.