Family Gap Year
A family gap year is a wonderful opportunity for parents and kids to bond, experience the world together, learn so ...
Planning a Trip to Thailand
Thailand is a beautiful country with much to offer holidaymakers, travellers and tourists. Thailand has stunning beaches, ancient temples, delicious ...
Staycation Tips & What Is a Staycation?
I’m a traveller, a dedicated globe trotter and wanderluster, but something weird has happened lately. I’m loving just being at ...
Bangkok to Chiang Mai
A favourite part of any trip to Thailand, the Bangkok to Chiang Mai journey, is to be enjoyed not endured. ...
Proof of Onward Travel for Thailand. Do You Need It?
This is the question I’m asked most in our Facebook group – Living Differently. Do I need onward flight tickets, ...
Cancelled GoToGate Flights London to Dubai, Pegasus, and Emirates
Yes, it happened, the day we never anticipated. After 5 and a half years of full time travel we met ...
Why Do People Travel?
Why do people travel? People travel for many reasons and love travel for different reasons too. Some people don’t enjoy ...
Thailand Itinerary 2 Weeks and 3 Weeks
A reader asked me to write a Thailand itinerary for her 3-week vacation, I think it’s best to start with ...
How We Scored a Free Week of Hotel Stays in Thailand – Agoda Cash
This week we’re touring northern Thailand by car, it’s amazing, fascinating and fun with the added bonus of being incredibly ...
Getting a New UK Passport in Bangkok Thailand, British Passport Renewal
This is how we renewed a UK passport in Bangkok. British passport renewal in Thailand. Our younger son’s UK passport ...
Options to Earn Money While Travelling
Travel can be one of the most important and incredible things you can do in your lifetime, opening you up ...
GetYourGuide Review
We’ve been travelling and taking tours full-time for over 5 years now and more and more we’re using GetYourGuide to ...
Europe Road Trip Costs
A reader asked me to post about our European road trip costs, so we collected the data, saved every receipt ...
Sell Everything and Travel – How to Start Over in a Travel Lifestyle
Hi there, so you’re as crazy as us! Great to meet you. You’re thinking of selling everything you own and ...
Pre-Vacation Checklist.
Travelling and vacations are always exciting and fun thing to do. What’s not that exciting, is having to prepare and ...
How to Travel the World?
You want to know how to travel the world, right? We’ve done it, so can you. It could be a ...
Handling Your Money in Thailand. Quick Guide and Tips
Thailand is one of the more tricky countries for travellers to handle their travel money at minimum cost. We normally ...
Accommodation For Travellers: Finding It
Finding accommodation as you travel (budget to free being hardest) is a huge topic and one that is mentioned all ...
AirBnB for Families. Finally Winning!
I’m famous for saying that AirBnb is useless for families and we never use it. If you’re not on Facebook ...
Family House Sitting. Yes or No?
I’m going to say what I really feel (surprised, right?) and that is, long-term family house sitting as part of ...
How to Travel With Carry On Only
Travel, international or domestic, be it for a week, a month, or multiple months is very much easier if you ...
Planning A Big Trip
This post is about the planning stage of travel. How we do it and how you could do it. How ...
Travel Budget? We Don’t Set One
It’s true. We are great at budget travel – without a budget. People ask about our travel budget, what it ...
Cheap and Budget Family Accommodation in London
In this post we share the some of the cheaper family accommodation in London that we’ve used over the years. ...
How to Save Money on Flights with Skyscanner-But Should You?
Of all the tools we used for finding bargains in the travel world, Skyscanner was number 1, until the day ...
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 ...
Where Not to Save Money on Travel
There are ways to save money on travel that are great, a good idea, the best ways. But trying to ...
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 ...
Kuala Lumpur. Best Family Accommodation, Malaysia
Kuala Lumpur is a wonderful city, in one moment ultra slick and modern, the next ancient, traditional and cultured. Its ...
Finding Budget Family Accommodation
Finding budget family accommodation is always the hardest part of family travel at the backpacker end of the market. This ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
Planning Family Travel: Three Months To Go
We are a family planning to travel the world. We are three months from our departure date. The first post ...
Am I Making This Look Too Easy?
In 2012 we decided to save, sell almost everything and set off to travel the world. This post is from ...
Small Group Adventure Holidays. What’s Group Adventure Travel Like?
Small group adventure holidays usually involve travel to an adventure holiday destination, domestic or international, and touring or taking part ...