Articles By

Alyson Long

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 ...
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Cu Chi Tunnels Tour from Saigon & Cao Dai Temple, Half/ Full Day

Our big, number 1 thing to do in Saigon Vietnam is the Cu Chi Tunnels tour and Cao Dai temple ...
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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 ...
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Hoi An Markets. Central Market, Night Market and Others in Hoi An

We spent almost 6 months living in Hoi An Vietnam, so we needed to shop at the markets regularly. We ...
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Classic Books for 6th Graders and 7th Graders

Classic books for 6th Graders and 7th Graders, that they should enjoy! A reading list of classic books for kids, ...
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SunGod Sunglasses Review. PaceBreakers, Renegades & Sierras Tested

SunGod Sunglasses offer high performance, high quality, customisable sunglasses that you can order online and have in your hands through mail ...
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Saigon With Kids

Visiting Vietnam with kids is an incredible experience. Saigon or the wider area, Ho Chi Minh, is an essential city ...
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Nomadic Lifestyle (Living Hand To Mouth)

This is a post about what a modern nomadic lifestyle actually means. We enjoyed this lifestyle of freedom for almost ...
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How to Stay Fit and Healthy While Travelling?

Fit and healthy, two things people generally want to be, but does travel help you get fitter, or is the ...
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Living Cheaply in London

The cost of living in London is billed as high and on previous visits taking rentals, lets, or AirBnb apartments ...
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Best Travel Towels, Which Travel Towel To Buy?

Best travel towel. Travel towel guide and review for travel, sport, camping. The best microfibre and micro towelling travel towels ...
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Visiting the Somme Battlefields, a Must-Do in France

When we left our hotel just north of Paris to make our way to the ferry port at the end ...
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Europe Road Trip Costs

A reader asked me to post about our European road trip costs, so we collected the data, saved every receipt ...
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Air Asia Carry On – Bags For Air Asia Size Regulations

Before you buy a carry on bag or backpack, read this. Yesterday I was ready to buy the immensely popular ...
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Getting Back to Fitness After 50

Around Christmas time, at home in Romania, we borrowed a friend’s hacksaw to try to cut my engagement ring off. ...
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Parc Asterix Review (Paris)

Parc Asterix is an Asterix-themed theme park just north of Paris France. It is very much worth visiting, and we ...
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3 Days in Slovenia

3 days in Slovenia was enough time to fall head over heels in love. Why didn’t I know how beautiful ...
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Hortobagy National Park, Hungary

Hungarian horsemen, dressed in blue, have incredible skills. Find them at the UNESCO-listed Hortobágy National Park, the Puszta, in Hungary. ...
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How to Avoid Theft While Travelling

It happens, I can’t deny that. People get robbed when they travel. People also get robbed at home so is ...
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How do Families Afford to Travel the World?

This is the question that comes up constantly. How do we afford it? How do all the other travel families ...
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Basics of SEO for New Bloggers

I’ve been asked to write this post on the basics of SEO for bloggers by a member of our private ...
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Other Pyramids Near Cairo. Saqqara and Djoser

Just a little south of Cairo is a tourist attraction that most tourists don’t see. That’s a great shame because ...
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Places to Visit in Egypt

Best places to visit in Egypt include ancient sites, cities, museums, beaches, souks, fortresses, and oases. Egypt is full of ...
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The New Blogger’s Check List

I have so many people in our Facebook group, Living Differently, who are about to start, or have recently started ...
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9 Summer Holiday Tips for Parents, from a Travelling Family

It’s almost summer holiday time again and some parents will be getting stressed out. Maybe it’s your first time taking ...
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Digital Nomad Family Destinations – The Hard Parts

If I were to ask you what you thought were the hardest parts of being a digital nomad family, what ...
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Danger Travelling in Egypt

Last week I posted on the Facebook page that we’d just been involved in a very dangerous situation while travelling ...
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Homeschooling or Worldschooling in Romania

Homeschooling, doesn’t officially exist in Romania. As far as I know it’s not actually illegal, it just doesn’t exist, all ...
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Egypt Travel Blog

Welcome to our Egypt Travel Blog page. It’s hard to find up-to-date information or travel guides for Egypt because the ...
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Felucca Sailing on the Nile. Disasters 1 and 2.

Chef and I met in Egypt on a 5 day felucca trip on the Nile. It was a lovely, peaceful ...
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The Egyptian Museum Cairo

We’ve taken our kids to the best and most famous museums in the world, London, New York, Washington DC and ...
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Getting from Cairo to Luxor

There is a train from Cairo to Luxor or you can go by road, air, or water. Tourists normally take ...
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Visiting the Pyramids and The Best View in Cairo

We’re in Egypt. We’re certainly not in Kansas anymore and Cairo hits you around the head like a sock full ...
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Breb Maramures (& Living in Breb Village in Romania)

In the far north of Romania, nestled in a valley below a long-extinct volcano, lies the little village of Breb, ...
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Sigiriya With Kids

We put off climbing Sigiriya, lion rock, with kids until they were 11 and 9. Why? Because we’d climbed Sigiriya ...
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There’s a Bear in There! Walking in Transylvania

We just got back from a 2 day roadtrip in Northern Transylvania, Romania. It was a lovely couple of days ...
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Romania, Dracula and Vampires. Fact, Fiction and Origins

Irishman, Bram Stoker, published his classic Gothic horror novel “Dracula” back in 1897. The cursed count, based in Castle Dracula, ...
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Best Smart Luggage and Bag Tracking Devices

Have you heard of smart luggage? I hadn’t until very recently, but it’s a “thing” a mind-blowingly amazing thing. The ...
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The Horse & Animal Market at Sighetu Marmatiei, Romania

Living in Breb, Maramures County Romania, we visited the monthly animal and horse market at Sighetu Marmatiei more than once. ...
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Sighisoara Romania, Things to Do, Where to Stay

Sighisoara is a stunning, and surprisingly tiny, medieval citadel in Transylvania, central Romania. Its story-book looks alone will blow you away ...
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What Should You Include in Every Blog Post

Creating content for blogs or websites is more of a science than an art. Each blog post needs to have ...
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Renting or Hiring a Car in Thailand

Hiring a car in Thailand is pretty straightforward and a great way of seeing the country. While renting or hiring ...
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