My dad used to say that to me when I was a kid. " School days are the happiest days of your life". I can see from the internet that it's still a thing, people are searching for posts that tell them how to write an essay, speech or debate on that topic, so I guess schools are still trying to perpetuate that myth to keep kids compliant. This myth we tell children goes hand in … [Read more...]
10 Reasons to Love Being Back in London!
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...]
One Year Around The World
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...]
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...]
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 families afford it? There are thousands of families out travelling with their kids, for a 1 year family gap year, for an extended period of a few months, or like us, long-term. We've been travelling over 5 years now with a full nomadic or digital nomad type lifestyle. Everyone wants to … [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...]
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 the brief answer they're looking for so I normally brush them off. But I have a … [Read more...]
Best Things About Travelling the World as a Family
A lady in our Living Differently group was telling me yesterday how a photo I shared had stuck in her head and constantly inspired her to keep working towards her own dream lifestyle. It was the one below, taken in Richmond Upon Thames, London. Home, after too many years away. It was incredible to be back walking familiar streets once more, and what screams … [Read more...]
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 in Romania where temperatures dip to -25C, snow and ice lie thick for … [Read more...]