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Menopause, Diet and Travel

Last updated on 03/04/2018 By Alyson Long for World Travel Family 3 Comments Any post on this site may contain affiliate links. If you use them, they cost you nothing extra. We make a small commission.

I've been quiet lately. Did you notice? This is mostly because I've been feeling sick, bored, down and generally fed up. Yes travel is boring sometimes particularly when you're not actually travelling, you're just sitting still as we are, again, in Hoi An and not feeling 100%. The major problem I've had, my health, a whole heap of symptoms ( anxiety, pain, night sweats, hot … [Read more...]

One Year Around The World 2017

Last updated on 15/05/2018 By Alyson Long for World Travel Family 24 Comments Any post on this site may contain affiliate links. If you use them, they cost you nothing extra. We make a small commission.

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

Last updated on 19/05/2018 By Alyson Long for World Travel Family 12 Comments Any post on this site may contain affiliate links. If you use them, they cost you nothing extra. We make a small commission.

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

Last updated on 21/10/2017 By Alyson Long for World Travel Family 14 Comments Any post on this site may contain affiliate links. If you use them, they cost you nothing extra. We make a small commission.

We've been on the road almost 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 last night and this is how it panned out. We'll still watch and … [Read more...]

Living in Hoi An

Last updated on 26/04/2018 By Alyson Long for World Travel Family 28 Comments Any post on this site may contain affiliate links. If you use them, they cost you nothing extra. We make a small commission.

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

Last updated on 13/02/2018 By Alyson Long for World Travel Family 15 Comments Any post on this site may contain affiliate links. If you use them, they cost you nothing extra. We make a small commission.

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

Last updated on 20/10/2017 By Alyson Long for World Travel Family 9 Comments Any post on this site may contain affiliate links. If you use them, they cost you nothing extra. We make a small commission.

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

Last updated on 25/05/2017 By Alyson Long for World Travel Family 28 Comments Any post on this site may contain affiliate links. If you use them, they cost you nothing extra. We make a small commission.

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...]

Busy Doing Nothing. Childhood Without School

Last updated on 04/08/2017 By Alyson Long for World Travel Family 3 Comments Any post on this site may contain affiliate links. If you use them, they cost you nothing extra. We make a small commission.

A woman asked us the other night what we do all day. It happens fairly often and I find it a touch rude, but what can you do? Trying to tell an older person what childhood could and should look like without the confines of classrooms and structured extracurricular activities will take more than the brief answer they're looking for so I normally brush them off. But I … [Read more...]

Surviving Winter in Romania

Last updated on 19/01/2018 By Alyson Long for World Travel Family 16 Comments Any post on this site may contain affiliate links. If you use them, they cost you nothing extra. We make a small commission.

Winter has done its worst and the mercury is starting to hit positive numbers during the short days here in the remote mountains of Romania. This area is beautiful, harsh, inspiring and difficult and it's where we choose to be. Why, when we could live anywhere in the world, do we choose to spend winter in Romania where temperatures dip to -20C, snow and ice lie thick for … [Read more...]

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