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 ...
Victory Gate, The Monster of Concrete in Vientiane
The Monster of Concrete is a nickname given to a large concrete monument in Vientiane, Laos. It is correctly known ...
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 Markets (Morning, Day & Night Markets
Gorgeous little Luang Prabang in Laos is quite the tourist hot spot these days since the arrival of the airport ...
Getting To Luang Prabang From Vang Vieng Laos, by Bus or Mini Bus
If you boarded the bus to Luang Prabang from Vang Vieng, took your assigned seat and looked up to see ...
Food in Laos (Beginner’s Guide)
Laos isn’t a standout foodie destination in the way that some other Southeast Asian countries are. In Laos, you’ll find ...
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 ...
Homeschooling and Travel. How’s it Going?
This is an old post, I wrote it when we’d been on the road just months, I wanted to touch ...
Vang Vieng, Laos. Travel Blog
This blog post is from 2014, when we spent 4 weeks in sleepy Vang Vieng. In 2026, we returned. Vang ...
Getting to Vang Vieng from Thailand
Getting to Laos from Thailand. This post is about the journey from Kanchanaburi Thailand, to Bangkok, to Nong Khai on ...
Kanchanaburi, Thailand & The River Kwai
We’ve been in Kanchanaburi, Thailand, sitting here on the River Kwai for a week now. What have we been doing? ...
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 ...
Bangkok to Kanchanaburi. By Train, Bus or Road
Your options for getting from Bangkok to Kanchanaburi include train, bus, taxi and minibus. There is no airport in Kanchanaburi, you ...
Wat Arun. One of The Best Wats in Bangkok
Wat Arun, The Temple of The Dawn or Wat Arun Ratchawararam Ratchawaramahawihan stands on the west bank of the Chao Phraya ...
Where to Eat Out in Batu Ferringhi, Penang
There are many and varied places to eat out in Batu Ferringhi, from Mc Donalds to The Hard Rock Hotel ...
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 ...
Kek Lok Si Temple Penang (Malaysia)
Kek Lok Si Temple is the largest Buddhist temple in this region of Malaysia, and is one of the best ...
We Love Bangkok!
It’s great to be in Bangkok again! I fell in love with Bangkok as a solo traveller back in 1999 ...
Penang Huge Spiders. Photo of the Week.
I thought this photo of huge spiders came out pretty well, so I’m making it photo of the week. This ...