This post is really about not taking things for granted. It's about gratitude. It always feels good to be back in London. We've bounced around the world for half a decade now but London is our home turf. I know I say Romania is home, Hoi An is home, Bangkok is home, Port Douglas Australia is home, Wales is home, but London is where we've spent the most time. It's where Chef and … [Read more...]
The Truth About Blogging
I blog. Blogging is how I support my family. But what is blogging and what is blogging not? On a day when I'm struggling to come up with an idea for a new blog post I thought I'd go deeper into blogging. You probably all know me, my family, my style, but do you really? What is MY truth about blogging and how does it affect me, my family, our lifestyle and our privacy. The … [Read more...]
How World Travel Family Blog Works
Guys, I'm reading so much nonsense right now about dishonest blogging and people being paid to say nice things that I thought I should spell it out to you. How World Travel Family works, how we go about things, why we go about things, what you, our readers and our website, means to us and how we work here at WTF HQ. So here we go. We Are Painfully Honest I will never say … [Read more...]
One Year Around The World 2017
Another full year of travel completed. Where did we go? What were our milestones, highlights and low points? How did we do it and how did we keep it affordable? What goes into our planning process and how do we cope as a family with full time travel around the world? A recap of 2017, with links to key posts and sections. We hope we can inspire, encourage and help you to travel … [Read more...]
A Nomadic Family Lifestyle. What’s it Really Like
We're the experts I guess. We left Australia almost 5 years ago and haven't been back (nor wanted to go back) even once since. We've visited around 50 countries, several of those 4 or 5 times. We've been to 5 continents and flipped between the hemispheres. We have two boys who became full time travellers at 6 and 8 and are still happy to continue at 11 and 13. I am a mum and a … [Read more...]
Being a Digital Nomad Family With a Teenager
We've been on the road as a nomadic family ( digital nomad family in later years) for over 5 years now and it's been amazing, but our elder son is now a teen, not just in numbers but in emerging attitude too. How has and will the teenage years affect our lifestyle? Will we have to stop being a digital nomad family and settle into bricks and mortar? We had the big discussion … [Read more...]
Living in Hoi An
Everything on living in Hoi An after almost 6 months here.This post started out in 2017 as a bit of a whinge about how dull it was sitting still for a couple of months but in our second month, after starting this post in the wee small hours, we went out for breakfast and a bike ride and I found myself falling under a car. Being alive and content in an ultra charming little … [Read more...]
Scraping By, Backpacker Mentality, Living Hand to Mouth, Digital Nomads
Time for another one of those rant posts. I love to rant and I love that you all pay attention. So stuff SEO and making money today, this is real, this is me. This morning I was checking my Facebook notifications, it's my job and I do it several times per day. I happened upon a post by a woman who shall be named Audra ( for that is her name, real or otherwise) wondering why … [Read more...]
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. Drastic measures to resolve a simple problem, I'd put on so much weight that my rings were wedged on causing me pain. The hacksaw plan didn't work so I decided to lose the weight instead, a long tortuous process that sounded, back then, like deprivation and suffering. … [Read more...]
The Hardest Parts of Being a Digital Nomad Family
This will be a short post. I'm having one of those unsettled days where I think far too much. I find it's often best to put troublesome ideas down in writing and share them. That way they're easier to acknowledge, process and move on. If I were to ask you what you thought were the hardest parts of being a digital nomad family, what would you answer? Would you think it was lack … [Read more...]
