Hello beautiful people of WiFi and wanderlust,
We made it. Number 25.
A quarter of a hundred.
If this were a birthday, we’d be old enough to rent a car in the U.S. but still young enough to lose our passport in a hostel bar.
If it were a relationship, we’d be at the stage where friends ask, “So… are you two serious, or just traveling together?”
So yes, The Nomag Pulse has officially hit that perfectly messy, slightly chaotic, endlessly fun stage. And honestly? We wouldn’t have it any other way.
🚌 Road trip news
While your cousin is packing the same flip-flops she’s worn since 2009, we’re preparing something slightly more ambitious. Together with our friends at ITS ITALY, we’re about to embark on a Grand Tour across Marche, Tuscany, and Puglia.
The Nomag Pulse #23 - Join ITS ITALY on the Road This (and Next) Month
This autumn, our partners, the founders of ITS ITALY, invite you to join us on a unique journey across Italy. Between 24 September and 9 October 2025, we will be on the road visiting some of the towns where we are already active, meeting mayors and local partners, exploring new properties and potential interventions, and connecting with those who are bu…
And because we can’t just sit still (and neither should you): it’s still possible to join us in Sicily at the start of October.
For our Italian-speaking friends (or brave souls who think Duolingo’s owl prepared them for Sicilian dialects): don’t miss the video-podcast Remote Workers for Remote Villages. Two episodes online, already watched by 30,000 people. Yes, 30k. Apparently, nomads in small towns are hotter than Squid Game.
🌿 Our obsession: coworking & coliving beauty
Remember that challenge we launched?
In Search of the World’s Most Beautiful Coworking & Coliving Spaces
Some people chase Michelin stars, others chase sunsets. Digital nomads? We chase WiFi—and beauty. Not beauty in the Instagram cliché sense (though we don’t mind a few palm trees for the feed), but beauty as in: spaces that make us feel alive, inspired, connected.
Some people chase Michelin stars, others chase sunsets. Nomads? We chase WiFi—and beauty. Not beauty in the Instagram-influencer sense, but beauty that makes you whisper, I could stay here forever.
Beauty is not beanbags. It’s:
light and air that reset your brain better than any app,
wood that still smells of the forest,
kitchens where strangers become friends,
terraces where ideas travel faster than gossip in a small town.
👉 Send us your suggestions (so we can test our new email address info@nomag.media). Whether it was a monastery in Umbria, a glass cabin in the Arctic, or a riad in Marrakech with WiFi almost as strong as the mint tea, tell us. We’ll collect them, maybe even go visit, and definitely brag about them in future issues.
🤝 Partnerships that make sense
Yes, we’re nomads. But we also like to stay alive, connected, insured, and occasionally educated. That’s why we’ve teamed up with:
ProtonMail (because Gmail reading your grandma’s emails is creepy),
VPNs (PureVPN for now—because “public WiFi” shouldn’t mean “public access to your bank account”),
Coursera (because learning Italian verbs is easier than explaining to your parents what you do for a living),
TrustedHousesitters (because sometimes the best coliving partner is a cat in Barcelona),
Insured Nomads (because food poisoning doesn’t care if you’re in Bali).
More perks coming soon. Because if you’re global, your benefits should be too.
❄️ Field notes from the North
ICYMI: we wrote about the most unexpected digital nomad destination of all… Norway.
Yes, it’s cold. Yes, it’s pricey. But the fjords? Worth every frozen finger.
Nyksund (Norway): “If I can make it there, I’ll make it anywhere.”
Some press releases you skim. Others make you spill your coffee and rush to the keyboard. The rebirth of Nyksund (check the link at Visit Norway), a tiny fishing village in Northern Norway’s Vesterålen, definitely belongs to the second category.
👩🦰 Three nomads, three real projects
1. Marta in Spain — Arterra Bizimodu
Marta, 28, left her job in Madrid to join Arterra Bizimodu, an intentional community in rural Navarra. Instead of open-plan offices, she now designs shared gardens, circular economies, and cultural exchanges. She says the first time she helped plant a food forest with neighbors from five countries, she realized: this is what “global” should feel like.
2. Leila in Portugal — OASA
Leila, 32, was an architect in Berlin. Today, she’s in Alentejo, Portugal, part of OASA, a regenerative living experiment where nomads and locals co-create food forests, practice permaculture, and build with natural materials. Her parents thought she was crazy until they visited: now they brag to their friends that their daughter “designs with trees.”
3. Sofia in Belgium — Communa
Sofia, 30, a community manager from Lisbon, joined Communa in Brussels, where abandoned buildings are transformed into temporary housing and coworking hubs. She helped set up a women’s co-op kitchen inside an old office block. “It’s not glamorous,” she laughs, “but when you see life return to a space everyone else gave up on—it’s beautiful.”
These aren’t aliens landing to gentrify. They’re resources. They’re bridges. They’re proof that nomads can regenerate, not just relocate.
🚀 Substack Rankings: BOOM
Bragging corner.
Six months ago, we joined Substack.
Last month We were #32 in Travel.
Today? #13 worldwide.
With 36,000 subscribers.
That’s not just a number. That’s you—reading, sharing, roasting us in comments, and occasionally correcting our typos (we see you, grammar ninjas).
So yes: BOOM. 🎉
🛫 Before we go
This newsletter is already longer than a Ryanair boarding line, so let’s wrap.
Remember:
join us on the road in Italy,
send us your coworking/coliving crushes,
flex that you subscribed early,
and never forget that beauty—like WiFi passwords—is better when shared.
See you online (or in a tiny Italian village, same thing these days).
With too many tabs open,
—Team Nomag