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 ...
Why We Finally Got Rabies Vaccinations for Travel
We’ve been on the road well over 5 years now and finally we decided to get our rabies vaccinations. When ...
What is Altitude Sickness – For First Time High Altitude Trekkers
I’m a biologist, my degree is in Physiology, I worked in hospital medical science for 20 years, I know a ...
How to Stay Fit and Healthy While Travelling?
Fit and healthy, two things people generally want to be, but does travel help you get fitter, or is the ...
Getting Back to Fitness After 50
Around Christmas time, at home in Romania, we borrowed a friend’s hacksaw to try to cut my engagement ring off. ...
Tips For Avoiding Mosquitos. Travel & Mosquitos
Many travellers encounter mosquitoes or mosquitos (both spellings are correct) as they travel in warm and tropical climates. We have ...
Travel During Perimenopause
Perimenopause has been a roller-coaster ride for sure. When we left home in 2013 I already knew that I was in the ...
Anxiety, Palpitations, Perimenopause and MSG.
If you read my last post about Chef’s hospitalisation, you’ll know that I wasn’t feeling too good. I’d even asked ...
Medical Dramas on Ko Phangan and Surgery on Ko Samui
This morning, 4 months into our trip, my husband is having emergency hernia repair surgery on Ko Samui. I’ve always said ...
Our Four Month Anniversary, Disasters and a Lesson in Unplanned Travel.
Four months ago this week I wrote about the things I’d miss as we left Port Douglas to explore the world. ...
Travel Makes You Thinner!
Travel makes you wise, we all know that, and wisdom makes you sexier and cooler, but on a totally shallow ...
Travel Vaccinations in Kuala Lumpur
This is for anyone out there, like me, who is stressing about travel vaccinations. The crazy cost of them in ...
The Travel Vaccinations Drama.
I went to see my GP to talk travel vaccinations yesterday. I wish I hadn’t! I came away with a ...
School Sores or Impetigo, a Horrible Tropical Disease.
We live in the tropics, Far North Queensland, we get horrible tropical diseases, more so, because we have children, adorable little ...
Packing Anxiety
My husband laughs at my packing. He laughed even harder when I mentioned that I was going to blog about ...