Do We Ever Get Bored Of Travel?
Do we, did we, ever get bored with travel or the necessities of a travel lifestyle? No. Travel is always ...
Sydney With Kids
Sydney is probably the best place you can visit in Australia if you have to choose just one destination. The ...
We Don’t Sell Links or Take Sponsored Posts on this Travel Blog (T&Cs)
On this travel blog, we no longer consider accepting sponsored posts. These are posts written by somebody else, or by ...
Violence, Assault, Danger, Aggression & Travel
We’ve been to 60 countries, give or take, over a period exceeding 20 years. A lot of these travel adventures ...
Digital Nomad Visas, With Kids
We were a long-term travelling family with kids for almost 7 years. During that period, digital nomad visas were just ...
My Best Advice For New Travellers, After Years On The Road
I am a Gen X mum to young adults and a lifelong traveller. On this page, you’ll find the advice ...
Not Paying The Bali Tax on Self Transfer Flights Via Denpasar
For the last few years, we’ve been taking flights from Cairns Australia to Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Vietnam, anywhere in Southeast ...
Jonker Street Night Market Melaka
Is Jonker Street Night Market, Melaka, worth visiting? We were in Melaka (AKA Malacca) recently, in 2026 as part of ...
Is KLCC The Best Place To Stay in Kuala Lumpur?
In 2026, we chose to stay in KLCC, the heart of Kuala Lumpur, during our trip to Malaysia. Previously, we’ve ...
Laos Train Travel, 2026
Today, you can travel through Laos by train. A high-speed Chinese train service connects Vientiane, Vang Vieng, Luang Prabang, and ...
COPE Visitor Centre Vientiane Laos. An Essential Visit. (2026)
We first visited the COPE Visitor Centre over 13 years ago. We revisited in 2026 on our 3rd visit to ...
Scared to Travel the World?
I originally wrote this post back in 2012, weeks before we set off to travel indefinitely with our two children. ...
Overcoming Travel & Packing Anxiety
I overcame packing anxiety and travel anxiety in the last year or two. Through 7 years of travelling full-time, anxiety ...
Travel or Stay Home? Decisions
I booked flights yesterday. We travel again very soon. The plan was for this to be a short trip. But ...
Kuta Bali – Is It Worth Visiting?
Important things to know about Kuta. Kuta, Bali, is where the Bali Denpasar International Airport is, DPS, making it a ...
Ninh Binh Vietnam – Is It Worth Visiting?
We returned to Ninh Binh in 2025. It has long been a popular place to visit in Vietnam, either to ...
Why I Stopped Being a Digital Nomad
I stopped being a digital nomad after almost 7 full years on the road, quite a while ago now. I’ve ...
The Negatives of Long Term Travel
Can you believe that in December 2025 it’s been 6 years to the month since our almost 7 years of ...
Not Giving Away Your Biometric Data at Airports
We’ve all been through airports as we travel and we all know what they’re like today. Photos, fingerprints, full body ...
Christmas While Travelling
We have had 9 Christmases overseas while we were travelling. During our almost 7 years of full-time family travel, there ...
Sidemen Bali – Is It Worth Visiting?
Sidemen Bali is pretty “off the beaten track” in Bali, Indonesia, but it’s developing fast. We were last in Bali ...
Prepping (With a Travel Twist)
We went through Cyclone Jasper a while ago. We were fairly well prepared, but we should have been better prepared. ...
Where To Buy Books, That Isn’t Amazon
We stopped using Amazon in March 2025 and haven’t missed it at all. A lot of you out there will ...
10 Best Things To See and Do in Australia
Australia is a country and a continent in the region of Oceania. It’s known for great beaches, the rugged outback, ...
Finding The Money to Travel
In this post we’ll explain how we had enough money to travel the world, at first for 1 year, and ...
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 travel families ...
Where To Stay in Chiang Mai
Chiang Mai is, in our opinion, the #2 best place to see in Thailand after Bangkok. It’s a little less ...
Parenting and Travel
This post is about learning to be parents on the road. How we handled parenting children while travelling for almost ...
The Best Way To See Singapore – Take A Bus Tour!
Singapore is an incredibly impressive city, and it’s particularly well-suited to sightseeing from a vehicle. The views from the roads ...
Chiang Mai Thailand, Top 10 Best Things To Do
Chiang Mai, Thailand, is a popular city located in North Thailand. Chiang Mai has its own airport and train station ...
14 Best Things To Do And See in Osaka
With Osaka having excellent air connections to Australia, we chose Osaka over Tokyo as our first destination to explore in ...
Planning A Family Vacation For Max Value!
Planning a vacation for your family should be fun and exciting. It usually starts out that way, but often takes ...
The 3 Best Day Trips From Bangkok
Bangkok is a great place to visit, and there’s plenty for you to see and do there, but if you ...
Hot Air Balloon From Cairns Australia – Our Experiences
Hot Air Ballooning is an extremely popular thing to do for visitors to Cairns, Port Douglas, Palm Cove and the ...
The Best Way To Visit Australia Zoo From Brisbane
If you’re heading to Australia, the late, great Steve Irwin’s Australia Zoo is a must-visit. Taronga Zoo is very good, ...
Eating At Jay Fai Bangkok
Eating at Jay Fai’s Michelin Guide restaurant is something we really wanted to do in Bangkok. We’d seen this celebrity ...
What To See in Chinatown Singapore
In this post we’ll share some of our favourite places to see in Singapore’s Chinatown, with photos of these beautiful, ...
Why Do People Travel?
People travel for many reasons. Individuals may love or dislike travel for diverse reasons too. Some people don’t enjoy travel, ...
Useful Travel Medical Kit Items (With Kids)
We travelled full-time for over 6 years (with kids, mostly in Asia) and, yes, we all had minor health problems ...
Who are World Travel Family?
World Travel Family is the name of a website or blog belonging to the Long family, that’s us. I’m Alyson, ...
Educational Things To Do In London
London is full of educational things to do for kids, and adults. In this post we’ll share some of our ...
How To Make Travel Educational
On this site we talk a lot about “worldschooling“. It’s how our kids were educated on the road, learning from ...