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Living in Hoi An

Update 24/01/2020 By Alyson for World Travel Family. 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 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...]

Ways to Be a More Eco Friendly Traveller

Update 15/01/2020 By Alyson for World Travel Family. Any post on this site may contain affiliate links. If you use them, they cost you nothing extra. We make a small commission.

Our lives on this planet are changing. We are at a point in time where we all have to do more to help our world survive, fast. We have just 11 years left to totally change the world. Many of us are on-board with this and the army of eco-conscious citizens swells daily, but what about those of us who travel? Is there such a thing as an eco-friendly traveller ? I'm not … [Read more...]

School Days Are the Happiest Days of Your Life – Is a Lie

Update 26/01/2020 By Alyson for World Travel Family. Any post on this site may contain affiliate links. If you use them, they cost you nothing extra. We make a small commission.

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...]

One Year Around The World

Update 25/11/2019 By Alyson for World Travel Family. 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...]

How do Families Afford to Travel the World?

Update 19/10/2019 By Alyson for World Travel Family. Any post on this site may contain affiliate links. If you use them, they cost you nothing extra. We make a small commission.

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 6 years now with a full nomadic or digital nomad type lifestyle. Our first year was … [Read more...]

Digital Nomad Family Life – The Hard Parts

Update 25/11/2019 By Alyson for World Travel Family. 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...]

We Are a Full Time Travel Family – How?

Update 27/02/2020 By Alyson for World Travel Family. Any post on this site may contain affiliate links. If you use them, they cost you nothing extra. We make a small commission.

This is the post that has to be written, how we get to travel full time or even permanently, as a family. We're not unique, there are plenty of other globe trotting full time travelling families on the world circuit, but to the vast majority of people what we do sounds far from possible. But we do it, and we've been doing it for almost 5 years. It's time to explain how we … [Read more...]

Best Things About Travelling the World as a Family

Update 25/11/2019 By Alyson for World Travel Family. Any post on this site may contain affiliate links. If you use them, they cost you nothing extra. We make a small commission.

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

Update 25/03/2020 By Alyson for World Travel Family. 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 -25C, snow and ice lie thick for … [Read more...]

Living Differently. New Ways in Chiang Mai

Update 07/08/2019 By Alyson for World Travel Family. 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 loving this city in strange and unexpected ways. I'm loving the Thai environment sure, the Old City of Chiang Mai with its ancient walls, stunning temples and teak houses, the amazing Thai food and it's abundant availability, the clear blue skies and tropical heat, but I'm loving it in more than a tourist-sort-of-way. I'm loving living here and working here. I'm in … [Read more...]

Travelling with Less Clothes and Dumpster Diving

Update 24/11/2019 By Alyson for World Travel Family. Any post on this site may contain affiliate links. If you use them, they cost you nothing extra. We make a small commission.

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, but we were hotter than the noodles. It was Chef's only day off for a while so we had to … [Read more...]

Travel Doesn’t Change You, You Find Yourself

Update 23/11/2019 By Alyson for World Travel Family. Any post on this site may contain affiliate links. If you use them, they cost you nothing extra. We make a small commission.

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 about how this thing travel has changed somebody. It was a great post, but I didn't … [Read more...]