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, ...
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 ...
Prepping
Last year we went through Cyclone Jasper. We were fairly well prepared, but we should have been better prepared. I ...
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 ...
World Schooling Travel Essentials
If you’re setting out on a world schooling adventure what are your travel essentials? Travel essentials are the things we ...
Worldschooling Mistakes Not To Make
Worldschooling is a wonderful way for kids to get an education, and it’s a wonderful lifestyle for the whole family. ...
Is Google Destroying Blogging?
It’s been a very tough few months in the blogging world. At the end of 2023 the HCU (Helpful Content ...
How Can I Make Money And Travel?
There are various ways in which you can make money and travel at the same time, blogging, any form of ...
How Much Money Can One Blog Post Make
How much money can a single blog post make? Some of mine have made thousands, some may have made tens ...
Homeschooling on the Road. What Gear Do You Need?
Which things do you really need to homeschool on the road? (Some call this form of homeschooling travel schooling, road ...
HOW TO GET AROUND IN THAILAND
Thailand is a fantastic, easy, and cheap country to travel around. Thousands of backpackers, travellers and holidaymakers travel within Thailand, ...
Our Family Lifestyle, on the Road
This post is hard to write because our family lifestyle has very little consistency, nothing is fixed and the sands ...
2021 Blogging Income Report
This post tracks our blogging income for 2021, the second year of the pandemic lockdowns. I’ve been a full-time blogger ...
10 Things Kids Hate About Travel
My kids are big now. Bigger than me. Young people with minds and opinions of their own. I think it’s ...
14 Problems of Travelling With Kids
Problems of travelling with kids, oh yes, there are a few. Some consider them major problems, others, tiny inconveniences outweighed ...
How Much Money We Made Travel Blogging in 2020
I have never, in the 9-year history of this website, posted income reports. I find it uncomfortable to talk about ...
Do We Regret Homeschooling Our Kids? Homeschool Regrets
We chose to homeschool almost a decade ago. Today I have teens. One child would be sitting his GCSEs this ...
Parenting and Travel (Raising Kids on the Road)
This post is about learning to be parents on the road. How we handled parenting children while travelling, without routine, ...
Is Travel Self Indulgent?
An anonymous commentator dropping their venom under a fake email address felt the need to call our travel lifestyle self-indulgent ...
Family Travel Trivia Quiz Questions
Quizzes, be they online, Zoom, virtual, or real-life are all the rage lately for a family game night involving adults, ...
What is Worldschooling?
Have you heard about worldschooling (AKA world schooling)? All the cool parents are doing it, it’s the latest buzz word ...
School Days Are the Happiest Days of Your Life – Is a Lie
My dad used to say that to me when I was a kid. ” School days are the happiest days ...
A Nomadic Family Lifestyle
We left home over 5 years ago to travel the world and we never wanted to go back. Becoming a ...
Options to Earn Money While Travelling
Travel can be one of the most important and incredible things you can do in your lifetime, opening you up ...
Nomadic Lifestyle (Living Hand To Mouth)
This is a post about what a modern nomadic lifestyle actually means. We enjoyed this lifestyle of freedom for almost ...
Digital Nomad Family Destinations – The Hard Parts
If I were to ask you what you thought were the hardest parts of being a digital nomad family, what ...
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 ...
Living Differently. New Ways in Chiang Mai
We’re loving this city in strange and unexpected ways. I’m loving the Thai environment, the Old City of Chiang Mai ...
What is Enough Socialisation? – World & Homeschooling Socialisation
I received an e-mail from a reader recently. He and his wife were thinking of taking their child on a ...
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 ...
Does Travel Change You, Finding Yourself
I get ideas for posts in all kinds of ways, sometimes I want to tell a story about some cool ...
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, ...
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 ...
Living Differently
This post, and entire “Living Differently” series, was written when I finally woke up to what we’d achieved, and realised ...
Who Reads Blogs?
Who reads blogs? Why do people read blogs and what is the point of blogging? A look at the blogging ...
Hijabs and Sri Lanka
This morning at sunrise I sat down to my computer to start my work for the day. It’s what I ...
Why Travel With Kids
Why do we do this crazy thing, why travel with kids? More importantly, why we think you should travel with ...
1 Year 16 Countries and Blogging Progress
It may look like we’ve spent most of 2015 not travelling, sitting here in our little house in Romania, but ...
Strewing The World. Strewing, Homeschooling and Worldschooling
Strewing. What is strewing? Strewing is a common word in homeschooling or unschooling, what does strewing look like in worldschooling? ...
Duncan Ridgley-Somewhere Different Book
I’m going to introduce you to our neighbours and share a book, Somewhere Different, with you. I want to let you ...
Romanian Village Life
Our lifestyle isn’t conventional. We travel and have done for over 2 years now, we do unusual things like falling ...
Winning The Lifestyle Lottery
Many people talk of travel when they win the lottery. That would be what it would take for them to ...