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 ...
Yes I like Pina Coladas! Pina Colada Cocktail, Mix, Premix
Pina Colada cocktails are one of my favourite drinks and I’m not ashamed to admit it. Rum, coconut, and pineapple ...
Visiting The Kandy Devales, Sri Lanka
Admission prices to the big attractions in Sri Lanka are steep. It’s something that you need to factor in to ...
Food in Sri Lanka (The Problems!)
If you’ve been following our Facebook page over the last month, you’ll have seen me alternately complaining and raving about ...
Walking Around Ella Sri Lanka
I think Ella, in the hill country of Sri Lanka, is one of my favourite towns so far. It’s full ...
Little Adam’s Peak Sri Lanka
If you know Sri Lanka you’ll know all about Adam’s Peak but you may not have heard of Little Adam’s ...
Mirissa Beach Sri Lanka (Paradise Found!)
From now on, when people ask me where to stay in Sri Lanka, I’ll tell them Mirissa Beach. I think I’ve ...
We Saw a Blue Whale, Really! Whale Watching, Mirissa Sri Lanka
In general, I believe that anything is possible, that’s mostly what’s got us where we are today. But if you’d ...
Why Go To Sri Lanka?
As I just said on my Facebook page, words cannot express how much we love Sri Lanka. Seriously! It’s like ...
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 ...
Legoland Malaysia Review. Totally Awesome!
Legoland Malaysia is outside Johor Bahru in Malaysia. It is just north of Singapore, in the far south of Malaysia south ...
Hotels Near Legoland Malaysia Johor Baru
By popular demand, here are our experiences of hotels near Legoland Malaysia Johor Bahru. We had a really good time ...
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 ...
Malacca With Kids
Keeping the children happy in Malacca isn’t hard at all. Malacca with kids is a great destination with plenty for ...
Kawan Kawan Guest House Malacca (Melaka) Review
Malacca doesn’t seem to be much of a backpacker town, most of the tourists we see are local and/or considerably ...
Malacca Travel Blog. First Impressions.
Malacca is a strange place. Arriving on the bus from Kuala Lumpur, on motorways that could easily have been in ...
Costs of Staying on Ko Phangan, Haad Salad
We were on Ko Phangan for 6 weeks, looking back, it was a blissful, perfect time, other than my husband’s ...
How a Cruise Can Be Budget Travel
During our first year of full time travel ( our family gap year, if you like) we were on a ...
What Do We Do All Day? Haad Salad, Ko Phangan
One of our readers wrote: I’d love to simply hear more about your day-to-day lives. What do your kids do all ...
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 ...
Homeschooling Without a Schedule!
5 years of travel, 2 years of homeschooling before that and we’ve never really had what you might call a ...
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 ...
Why Visit Goa (and why we’ll be going back!)
I’ve posted before about how much I love India, but Goa was my first love. I went on a cheap ...
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 ...
I knew hiring a scooter on Ko Phangan was a bad idea…
Years ago, in Vietnam, when we were on our first RTW, I had a go at driving the moped we’d ...
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 ...
The Monster of Concrete, Vientiane
The Monster of Concrete is a nickname given to a large concrete monument in Vientiane, Laos. It is correctly known ...
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 ...
Backpacking with Kids
We’ve been backpacking with kids, full-time for well over 6 years so we can share the best tips with you. ...
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 ...
Australia with Kids
Australia with kids. What does it have to offer? Is it worth the mammoth flight to take your kids to ...
Our Laos Budget. We’re spending $40/day, sort of..
I keep quoting this figure of $41/day as our budget, that’s actually a lie, our budget for Laos is working ...
Luang Prabang Night Market and Day Markets
Gorgeous little Luang Prabang in Laos is quite the tourist hot spot these days yet still retains its sleepy Laos ...