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 ...
Things to Do in Orlando for Kids | Animal Farm | 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 ?
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 ...
Finding Budget Family Accommodation
Finding budget family accommodation is always the hardest part of family travel at the backpacker end of the market. This ...
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. ...
The Ko Phangan Monkeys. Photo Post.
Ko Phangan is a beautiful and relatively unspoiled island off the east coast of southern Thailand. It is easy to ...
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 ...
COPE Visitor Centre Vientiane Laos. Essential Visit.
COPE Vientiane is a non-profit organisation in Laos which provides prosthetic limbs, mobility assistance and rehabilitation for Lao people who ...
Travel Medical Kit & Health on The Road
We’ve been travelling full-time for over 4 years now and, yes, we’ve all had minor health problems, the travel medical ...
Travel Vaccinations in Kuala Lumpur
This is for anyone out there, like me, who is stressing about travel vaccinations. The crazy cost of them in ...
Vang Vieng, Laos with Kids
Beautiful Vang Vieng, Laos is known for tubing and a crazy backpacker party scene. Not many people would associate it ...
Ock Pop Tok and Getting my Luang Prabang Mojo Back
We’ve been in Luang Prabang, Laos, for almost a week now. It’s been a strange few days and we weren’t ...
Vang Vieng, Laos. Tubing, Kayaking & Caving
We’ve been in Vang Vieng, Laos for 5 nights now and we’re loving it. It’s raining, a lot, but it ...
Travel Blogs vs Lonely Planet
Travel bloggers will hate me for posting this, but I’m known for my honesty, maybe for being rather pedantic at ...
Dusit Zoo – Bangkok Zoo
I’ve mentioned Dusit zoo before as a great place to take children in Bangkok, we went for a return visit ...
We Love Bangkok!
It’s great to be in Bangkok again! I fell in love with Bangkok as a solo traveller back in 1999 ...
Staying in a Hostel With Kids
Can you stay in a hostel with kids? Yes, you can, many hostels today have private family rooms but a ...
So What’s it Really Like,Travelling With Kids?
Scary, isn’t it? The idea of spending so much time alone with your kids in a strange country. Truth is, ...
This is The Beginning. Port Douglas to Kuala Lumpur
This post is from our first day of travel, our first day as a nomadic family, not quite digital nomads ...
Port Douglas: Leaving it Behind.
This is my last week in Port Douglas, Queensland. Regular readers will know we are British expats and have been living in ...
Planning Family Travel: One Week To Go!
We are a family planning to set out on a travel adventure. Our aim is to travel indefinitely or for ...