Just three hours to go before England’s first World Cup game and the atmosphere is building. There are heaps of England fans around as well as fans from every corner of the globe (particularly Brazil).

Kick off here is 9pm local time which is ideal! Meeting some of my Balinese friends who, like many in Indonesia, will be following England over the next four weeks.

Luckily much of my Internet traffic is from North America so I am not expecting it to go down too much over the next month.

I am toying with the idea of letting people run their own blogs within the WN site. It would be based on Wordpress and full training and marketing advice would be given (where needed).

There would be a link from the WN home page to your blog giving you excellent exposure.

Here are a few other benefits.

- Your blog would go straight into the search engines
- You will have a major place in the WN community
- All money made from your blog will go back to you
- You will be part of the 166,474 th most successful site on the planet (Alexa ranking)
- You are getting technical and marketing support from the one and only Webby!

Sounds too good to be true? Well it is n’t. My long term goal for this site is to make it a true community site. We have made a good start with the Forum and comments on the blogs but I want to move it up a gear and you will be helping me as well.

All I ask in return is that your blog sits within the theme of this site. Being a working nomad, whether it is with a laptop or a paintbrush (I met an artist the other day who is also a WN). Even if you are planning to be a working nomad that’s fine. After all I started this site before I became a WN.

There is a discussion here about it on the WN Forum if you have any specific questions.

Here is an example - Anna’s Painting and Travelling Blog

If you are interested email me at workingnomad@yahoo.co.uk and we can discuss the finer points.

My plan had been to spend most of my last month in Kuta surfing, chilling by the beach and watching the World Cup but like so many that visit this part of the world I feel the need to get the hell out!

Kuta is famous for it’s hawkers and generally the vibe is good natured. They are after all just trying to make a living in a tough country. However they have been chipping away at me over the last few days and I need some peace and serenity!

I think the lack of tourists (Aussies in particular) is driving these people to new heights in the art of hassling! Apart from that the place is awash with large groups of beer swilling Europeans here for the World Cup and the place is slowing turning into a resort on the Med. Not really my scene anymore!

So I am heading up to Ubud for a few days escape.

After years of attempting I still can’t get the hang of using chopsticks. I spent the other evening with three nurses from Ireland (shame, two were male) wrestling with my fried chicken and rice in KL’s Chinatown.

We went on to a nightclub called the Beach Club. Above the centre of the bar is a fish tank with two sharks swimming about. There has been quite a lot of discussion (among those who know the place) as to whether these poor beggars are real or not.

Well I can exclusively reveal they are real! The theory is that they are mechanical bacause if you watch them they follow the exact same path. The other night one decided to attack the other blowing away this theory.

Anyway I don’t know what was more depressing. Watching the sharks go crazy or the 100 or so Filopino sex workers plying their trade. I can’t really recommend the Beach club.

I fly back to Bali this afternoon and despite having only been away for a few days I am very much looking forward to being back there among friends.

This month was set to be a record for my Internet earnings but the last three days have been a big disappointment. Traditionally Tuesday and Wednesday are my strongest days for web earnings so I am a little surprised about this!

One thing you must shy away from is panicking if things like this happen. You should always look at the bigger picture. I will still be near my £1500 for this month which is acceptable.

I am back in KL for a few days before heading back to Bali for my final few weeks. I am beginning to formulate some plans for the summer in Europe now. I will be going back to Ipswich (thanks Mum!) initially and then we will see from there.

If you have been following the Forum you will have seen the thread about a possible trip around Europe. I am looking at getting some company sponsorship for this trip and this will be my focus over the next few weeks.

There is no going back to some dull office in London for me. That chapter of my life has finished. This way of working has left me very excited about the future.

I am off now to buy my ticket home.

Yesterday I managed to remove most of the skin from the underside of my feet playing football on the beach (England v Indonesia, we won, just) so today I have been hobbling around like an old man.

I am having to leave Bali tomorrow as my visa expires but I will be back in a few days time. I managed to get a cheap return ticket to Kuala Lumpur.

When I enter Bali again I will be in my final month of this working nomad trip! On other trips I have always felt ready to go home but I have n’t really experienced it on this trip. Being able to work and travel is a truly magical combination.

The Working Nomad will not be stopping when he gets home. I have some trips around Europe already planned and this blog will still be very much alive and kicking.

Whoever is spamming WN with comments do yourself a favour and stop wasting your time. All comments are moderated and it just took me 3 seconds to delete the 100 or so waiting for me.

Changing the subject I used to feel a bit guilty and slightly ashamed that I could only speak one language fluently. My time in Asia has eroded this guilt mainly due to the fact that the whole continent seems hell bent on learning it.

I had a chat with an Expat Brit the other day who seemed convinced that English has become so prominent because of our little country. Well perhaps this was the case 100 years ago at the height of the British Empire but not now.

I tried to explain that America and its global dominance in just about everything (World Cup aside) is why Indonesians love talking to us and Japanese spend lots of money sending their children language schools!

Here’s a little fact for you to finish off with. Did you know that we might have all been learning German now and watching Hollywood films with English subtitles? Apparently there was a discussion a few days after US independence whether they should adopt English or German as the national lingo. Good choice made.

The surf has been pretty flat in Bali but it is blue skies all the way now. I have been hanging out on the beach playing chess with my buddies from Sumatra.

Whenever I play it is me against 10 of them! They think it is perfectly acceptable to help each other when we play. I told them that I only want to play one at a time but soon as they spot something (like a dangerous move) they all go mad! The boys can’t help themselves.

The e-book selling is going quite well at the moment so thanks to everyone who has purchased it. I was thinking the other day it was over-priced. I mean you would n’t pay £9 for a normal book?

Then I remembered the effort I put in to it so I have decided to keep it at £9. Please let me know if you were one of the original people who emailed for it for free. I have all the emails still so I will know if you were one of them

I have been asked to write a piece for a well known travel magazine (paper) on the whole Working Nomad thing which is pretty exciting for me. They are interested in two things. How I managed to get where I am now and other ways people can travel and work aside from running websites.

This discussion has come up a few times and I have a few ideas but would love you to give me some more to think about. Something other than running websites but can still be conducted remotely.

I’d appreciate any ideas and if you have a really good idea I will reward you with a link to your site from the WN home page! Woooo hoooo!

Don’t forget that I love helping people out so don’t be afraid to ask me anything as well.

My sponsor for this project should have been Martini (I wonder if they still use that slogan anywhere?) I have proved without doubt that this way of working can be conducted from pretty much anywhere.

What I have n’t droned on so much about is the anytime factor. Working remotely allows you to entirely adapt your working hours around a chosen your lifestyle (and not the other way around as an office slave).

Take where I am now. Bali is just south of the Equator meaning that it basically gets light at 6am and dark at 6pm consistently. In many ways the life here is pretty much governed by the daylight hours.

The lifestyle here is very much an outdoors one, for locals and visitors alike. So now I am maximising my outdoors time by shifting my work / web time to the evening.

It makes no difference whatsoever apart from the fact I am online during working hours in the UK/Europe which can be useful.

So being an independent Webmaster gives you the ultimate freedom of both location and time.

Do you think that being able to work totally flexible hours could have a positive impact on your life?