Travel

Travel posts on this travel blog. Where to travel, how to travel, why to travel with a leaning towards with kids or family travel.

Sidemen Bali – Is It Worth Visiting?

Sidemen Bali is pretty “off the beaten track” in Bali, Indonesia, but it’s developing fast. We were last in Bali ...
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Prepping (With a Travel Twist)

We went through Cyclone Jasper a while ago. We were fairly well prepared, but we should have been better prepared. ...
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Where To Buy Books, That Isn’t Amazon

We stopped using Amazon in March 2025 and haven’t missed it at all. A lot of you out there will ...
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10 Best Things To See and Do in Australia

Australia is a country and a continent in the region of Oceania. It’s known for great beaches, the rugged outback, ...
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Finding The Money to Travel

In this post we’ll explain how we had enough money to travel the world, at first for 1 year, and ...
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How do Families Afford to Travel the World?

This is the question that comes up constantly. How do we afford it? How do all the other travel families ...
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Where To Stay in Chiang Mai

Chiang Mai is, in our opinion, the #2 best place to see in Thailand after Bangkok. It’s a little less ...
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Parenting and Travel (2025)

This post is about learning to be parents on the road. How we handled parenting children while travelling for almost ...
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The Best Way To See Singapore – Take A Bus Tour!

Singapore is an incredibly impressive city, and it’s particularly well-suited to sightseeing from a vehicle. The views from the roads ...
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10 Best Things To See and Do in Chiang Mai

I’m not going to give you a full list of things to do in Chiang Mai, because that would be ...
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14 Best Things To Do And See in Osaka

With Osaka having excellent air connections to Australia, we chose Osaka over Tokyo as our first destination to explore in ...
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Planning A Family Vacation For Max Value!

Planning a vacation for your family should be fun and exciting. It usually starts out that way, but often takes ...
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The 3 Best Day Trips From Bangkok

Bangkok is a great place to visit, and there’s plenty for you to see and do there, but if you ...
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Hot Air Balloon From Cairns Australia – Our Experiences

Hot Air Ballooning is an extremely popular thing to do for visitors to Cairns, Port Douglas, Palm Cove and the ...
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The Best Way To Visit Australia Zoo From Brisbane

If you’re heading to Australia, the late, great Steve Irwin’s Australia Zoo is a must-visit. Taronga Zoo is very good, ...
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Eating At Jay Fai Bangkok

Eating at Jay Fai’s Michelin Guide restaurant is something we really wanted to do in Bangkok. We’d seen this celebrity ...
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What To See in Chinatown Singapore

In this post we’ll share some of our favourite places to see in Singapore’s Chinatown, with photos of these beautiful, ...
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Why Do People Travel?

People travel for many reasons. Individuals may love or dislike travel for diverse reasons too. Some people don’t enjoy travel, ...
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Useful Travel Medical Kit Items (With Kids)

We travelled full-time for over 6 years (with kids, mostly in Asia) and, yes, we all had minor health problems ...
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Who are World Travel Family?

World Travel Family is the name of a website or blog belonging to the Long family, that’s us. I’m Alyson ...
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Educational Things To Do In London

London is full of educational things to do for kids, and adults. In this post we’ll share some of our ...
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How To Make Travel Educational

On this site we talk a lot about “worldschooling“. It’s how our kids were educated on the road, learning from ...
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This Is How To Find The Cheapest Flights For Your Family

Of all the tools we used for finding bargains in the travel world, Skyscanner was number 1, until the day ...
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​Best Gyms In Dubai

If you are visiting Dubai for a prolonged period of time, whether it’s for a work trip or a long ...
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Cyclone Preparation – Mistakes We Made!

At the end of 2023 we went through Cyclone Jasper and the subsequent torrential rain as he became Tropical Storm ...
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Finding Food for Kids While Travelling

We’ve fed our travelling children in some incredible travel destinations, in over 50 countries now. They’re still alive, still healthy ...
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Heathrow Airport (Map and Guide)

Heathrow Airport is to the west of Central London, About 16 miles (26 km) from the centre. It is easy ...
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What is a Nomadic Family?

A nomadic family is a family that can spend their whole lives, or a certain portion of their lives, moving ...
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Do Hostels Provide Towels?

Most hostels, in Asia, Europe, the US or Australia, do provide towels for guests, however, some don’t, and some require ...
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Can Families Stay in Hostels

Yes, families can stay in hostels, but not in every hostel. Plenty of hostels today have private family rooms, often ...
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The Middle East

The Middle East is a region, not a continent, not a subcontinent, and not a country. The region is located ...
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Places To Visit in Bangkok

A list of the best places to visit in Bangkok for tourists. Bangkok has an extraordinary number of temples, wats ...
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Family Gap Year – Why You Need One!

A family gap year is a wonderful opportunity for parents and kids to bond, experience the world together, learn so ...
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How To Travel More

Is your New Year’s resolution to travel more this year? Maybe you resolved to really start planning and organising a ...
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Handling Money in Dubai.

Dubai, in the country of The United Arab Emirates, is one of the easier countries for travellers to handle their ...
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Airport Transfer Siem Reap

Arriving by air at Siem Reap Airport in Cambodia, you will need to arrange an airport transfer to your hotel ...
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The Bone Church (Prague)

The Bone Church is a must-see tourist attraction near Prague in the Czech Republic. More correctly known as The Sedlec ...
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Best Summer Destinations in Europe

Summer destinations in Europe for your family vacation, hidden gems or more unusual places to visit in Europe aside from ...
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Our Family Lifestyle, on the Road

This post is hard to write because our family lifestyle has very little consistency, nothing is fixed and the sands ...
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Best Christmas Vacations For Families

If you’re yearning for the Christmas holiday season to feel a little different this year, there’s no better way to ...
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Bangkok to Phuket

Your options for getting from Bangkok to Phuket include train, bus, air, taxi and minibus. There is an airport on Phuket, ...
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Gifts For Kids (or Adults) Going To Disney

Are you looking for a gift for someone going to Disney? Do you know a kid going on a holiday ...
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