We’re Not a Budget Travel Blog
Yesterday, a potential hotel sponsor asked me “Can your readers afford us?” That’s a perfectly reasonable question, we’ve written post after ...
The Importance of Memories.
We are what’s called a digital nomad family. This means that our ability to generate a location independent income while ...
15 Top World Landmarks You Shouldn’t Miss
I’ve just checked out Trip Advisor’s Top 25 Landmarks in the World, as voted for by readers. I’ve only been ...
Tips For Avoiding Mosquitos. Travel & Mosquitos
Many travellers encounter mosquitoes or mosquitos (both spellings are correct) as they travel in warm and tropical climates. We have ...
How Does House Sitting Work?
House sitting is a mode of travel in which a volunteer moves into a house to take care of pets, ...
What to Look For in a Hotel for Your Family Holiday
What to Look for in a Hotel for Your Family Holiday Choosing a hotel for your family holiday is a ...
Skiing With The Family – Tips
Family holidays are one of the greatest pleasures in life, but as with all good things, they can be quite ...
One Day in London
Today was declared computer free day, we’ve all been wired up to the internet far too much lately. I’ve been ...
Inside Cabin or Outside Cabin on a Cruise Ship?
Should you choose an inside cabin or an outside cabin on a cruise ship? I should say stateroom, they call ...
Family Travel Blog, Travel With Kids (Tips)
We are a family travel blog, travel with kids is easy and good for families and parents alike, often. Here ...
How to Have Freedom and Change Your Life. Finding Freedom in Life
We’ve been “Living the Dream” for 2 years now. We’ve been travelling full-time, seeing the world and spending most of ...
What is Forest School? Worldschooling in London
We attended Forest School in London for 2 or 3 terms during our second year of full-time travel. We incorporated ...
What Did it Cost to Travel the World for a Year?
Now in year 5 of full time travel, I can’t believe we travelled so cheaply in year one. We had ...
The Crappy Bits From 1 Year of Travel – Travel Lowlights
We’ve had our share of ups and downs over the last 12 months of non-stop travel. We’ve had a fantastic ...
Travel Highlights From One Year of Travel
Travel highlights from the first 1 year of a multi-year trip. Yes, it’s true, we’re just coming up to one ...
Our Cruise on Norwegian Epic.
Hello from our Atlantic Crossing cruise on Norwegian Epic! Epic is a beautiful ship and we’re off to a good ...
Travel is a Waste of Money: Discuss
A percentage of the global population think that travel is a waste of money. It had honestly never crossed my ...
Travel During Perimenopause
Perimenopause has been a roller-coaster ride for sure. When we left home in 2013 I already knew that I was in the ...
Things to Do on a Cruise Ship – That You May Not Have Thought Of.
We’re cruise mad here at the moment, we’re taking our second Trans Atlantic Cruise in a couple of weeks and ...
Is Cruising Safe For Kids? Cruise Ships With Kids
Cruising with kids, cruising can be a lot of fun for families with kids and also an affordable vacation or ...
Orlando Petting Farm
Much as we all love theme parks, most families need to find a few other things to do in Orlando ...
Finding Cheap Cruises (Re-positioning Cruises)
We took 2 10 day + cruises in a year a little while ago. We wouldn’t take a second or ...
Why Travel to El Salvador? (with Kids)
Why travel to El Salvador? Nobody goes to El Salvador. That’s what a family member said when she found out we ...
What’s a Transatlantic Cruise Like?
Transatlantic cruise reviews, crossing the Atlantic on a cruise ship, what’s it like? And tips for transatlantic cruise crossings. Nerves ...
The Cerne Abbas Giant
I posted the other day about our drive down through, Avebury, Stonehenge and the chalk horses of Wiltshire. What a ...
Stonehenge, Avebury and Prehistoric Britain
Stonehenge would probably be pretty high on any non-Brit tourist’s wish list. Some of us get a bit blase about ...
How Many Countries Have You Been To?
Fellow family travel blogger Erin asked the question on her Facebook page, “How many countries have you been to?” Erin ...
UK With Kids
Have you ever considered taking your kids to the UK for a vacation or holiday? We think it’s a great ...
Great Reasons To Be In The UK in Winter
Regular readers will know that we touched down in the UK yesterday after 6 months in steamy Asia and 6 ...
Monkey Attack! Sri Lanka Photo Post
Monkeys are everywhere here in Sri Lanka. I’m sitting outside our room watching them right now. You may not see ...
Getting to Legoland Malaysia From Malacca
This post is about how to get to Legoland Malaysia from Malacca, the bus journey, where to stay near Legoland ...
From Flash to Trash. Will Kids Enjoy Budget Travel and Cheap Hotels?
Chef and I have always enjoyed budget travel. We’ve always wanted to get maximum travel for our dollar and to ...
Staying on Haad Salad, Ko Phangan. Dangers and Annoyances.
We have absolutely loved staying on Haad Salad, Ko Phangan for the last 6 weeks. It’s a beautiful beach paradise ...
How do you Start an Adventure?
How do you start an adventure? I started mine with my first ever blog post on my free wordpress.com site. ...
Anxiety, Palpitations, Perimenopause and MSG.
If you read my last post about Chef’s hospitalisation, you’ll know that I wasn’t feeling too good. I’d even asked ...
Medical Dramas on Ko Phangan and Surgery on Ko Samui
This morning, 4 months into our trip, my husband is having emergency hernia repair surgery on Ko Samui. I’ve always said ...
Our Four Month Anniversary, Disasters and a Lesson in Unplanned Travel.
Four months ago this week I wrote about the things I’d miss as we left Port Douglas to explore the world. ...
Travel Makes You Thinner!
Travel makes you wise, we all know that, and wisdom makes you sexier and cooler, but on a totally shallow ...
Taking a Doctor Who Toy Through Customs. Best Don’t!
Did I tell you about the time we accidentally took a Doctor Who toy through customs? It was back in ...
Family Budget Travel. Top Tips to Cut Travel Costs.
In our first year on the road we weren’t just about family budget travel, we were rocking extreme budget travel. ...
Bangkok to Ko Samui (and a Scam to Avoid.)
You have plenty of options for getting from Bangkok to Koh Samui in the far southwest of Thailand. Modern Thailand ...
Life is Never Easy. Real Life Family Travel.
I could tell you how we got from Laos to Bangkok easily on the fabulous sleeper train and how we’re ...