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After tying the knot in Santorini, Greece, in 2017 this couple decided to extend the honeymoon they were on in Asia.
Now, 52 countries and two years later, Jean Hocke (34) and Camille Demyttenaere (32) are aiming to make their holiday last a lifetime.
According to The Metro, the pair quit their jobs in London to travel fulltime and stay at luxury hotels for free.
Just to state the obvious – we’re green with envy!
Some of the places Jean and Camille, originally from Brussels, Belgium, have visited include the Maldives, New Zealand, India and Ecuador.
“We’re not tied to any ‘number of holidays’ you can take every year,” Camille says of the benefits of their new lifestyle.
“We travel whenever, wherever we want, and we are super flexible with schedules, like when we like a place, we can decide to stay longer without having to answer to anyone.”
They frequently share dreamy pictures of their trips with their more than 241 000 followers on Instagram and reveal brands pay them up to £892 (about R16 000) per post.
But Camille stresses it’s not always as effortless as it looks.
“There are no weekends as we work every day of the week! So we do not have that ‘yay, it’s Friday feeling’, and we actually work much more than what we did when we were working in strategy consulting,” she says.
“It’s not easy to make money out of it. Yes, we get a lot of stuff for free, but actually monetising your Instagram account is an entirely different story.”
The couple also haven’t gone without controversy.
In May they came under fire for posting a dangerous picture, which showed them kissing while leaning out of a moving train, reports Daily Mail.
“And this is how people die,” one user commented.
While another wrote: “Wouldn't call this adventure, but stupid, risking life for likes on Instagram."
But Jean and Camille insist the picture was safer than it seemed.
“This picture looks much more dangerous than it actually was,” Camille explains.
“The train was moving at walking speed and it looks as if we’re hanging above the cliff where as in reality we’re only hanging above the tracks.
“This picture is the result of a significant thinking and planning process and we took every precaution to make sure we were safe.”
Things we’ll do for the ’gram . . .
SOURCES: The Metro, Daily Mail, Yahoo! Lifestyle
