Port de Provenance is an independent research desk. We publish the costs, logistics, and lived realities of full-time travel — sourced from public data, never from anyone's personal trip.
Most travel content is a personal story dressed as advice. A creator goes somewhere, photographs themselves, and tells you what to do. The recommendation is real to them. It is not data. It is not comparable. It does not survive a tax season, a visa change, or an exchange-rate shift.
The internet has more than enough of that. What it is short on is the boring part: median rent in Lisbon last March, by the line. The brokerage accounts that don't freeze when your address goes non-resident. The state-residency moves that legally hold up. The pastéis de nata count is fine. The cost basis is what changes whether you can actually go.
Port de Provenance is the boring part, on purpose. Synthesized from public sources. Footnoted. Updated. Honest about what we don't know.
Every published claim points to one or more of:
We maintain a database of every sourced claim we publish. Each carousel, reel, or newsletter pulls from it. Sources are cited at the line level, not the article level.
Two operators. We don't put faces on the brand because the brand isn't about us — it's about the work. The faceless format also protects the editorial voice from drift toward personality and away from research.
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