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, […]
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 […]
Busy Doing Nothing. Childhood Without School
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 […]
Surviving Winter in Romania
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 […]
Getting a Traditional Thai Tattoo in Bangkok
I’ve got my traditional Thai tatto, it’s hours old and I love it. It’s about hand sized, in the middle of my back and it holds a deep meaning. It was created by a master ajarn with a traditional metal spike. It hurt, a little. Want to know more? There is a lot more to […]
Living Differently. Family Life on the Road
This post is hard to write because our life has very little consistency, nothing is fixed and the sands are always shifting. But people ask and people assume, so I’ll do my best to tell you about family life on the road, as it is. We’ve been travelling 3.5 years now with two boys who […]
Wales Ironman 2016
I’m sure you know that September 17th was the big day, Wales Ironman 2016 and Chef absolutely nailed it! Thinking though, there’s a simple message here, you can do it. Whatever dream or ambition you carry, you have the power within you to make it happen. Set a date, buy a ticket, next stop the […]
Tenby! Registering for Ironman Wales
As the candy houses of Tenby’s harbour glow in the evening light and sheltered boats bob gently just as they did in my childhood, something is different. Tenby is buzzing. 2000 competitors are here for the sold-out Wales Ironman, a huge endurance event, the longest, toughest, single day race in the world in one of […]
Living Differently. Travelling with Less Clothes and Dumpster Diving
Hi guys, greetings from London where we’re sweltering in the final throws of summer. We made the mistake of taking the tube into China Town on the hottest day of the year for a family lunch today. It was a great lunch, it’s a family tradition of ours to do lunch on Chef’s day off, […]
Travel Doesn’t Change You, It Sets You Free
I get ideas for posts in all kinds of ways, sometimes I want to tell a story about some cool place we’ve been, sometimes I want to help or inspire, sometimes ideas just pop into my head and sometimes, like today, I get ideas from other people’s words. Earlier this week I read a post […]
Living Differently, Uncertainties, Stories and Bookings
My husband (Chef) was on the phone to his sister. She asked where we were, what we were up to, where we were going next, “Well right now I’m eating breakfast in a hostel in Kuala Lumpur, but tomorrow? No idea” Yesterday our great-grand-nanna asked where we’d be next week. I said I didn’t know. “And […]
Living Differently. Owning Less, Living More
4 amazing years of seeing the world, somewhere between 35 and 50+ countries each, an amazing education for the kids and a new career for me. More family time, more fun, less work. But to some it must look crazy. How can we prefer backpacks to bedrooms, co-working spaces to steady jobs and challenging destinations […]
Living Differently. Nomadic Travel With Kids.
How many years have I been writing blog posts? Don’t know? Well I’ll tell you, it’s 4. The conversation between Chef and I, the one that changed our lives, took place 4 years ago in our garden in Australia and I’ve been blogging about it from every corner of the globe since. Only I haven’t. […]
