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 ...
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 ...
What is a Nomadic Family?
A nomadic family is a family that can spend their whole lives, or a certain portion of their lives, moving ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
How Covid-19 Has Impacted Travel Blogging
Time to get real. It seems that nobody is having a great time lately and we are fully aware that ...
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 ...
We are a Full-Time Travel Family. How?
This is a post about how we, the owners of World Travel Family travel blog, get to travel full-time or ...
How to Travel the World for Free
How to travel for free? There are many ways to organise free travel and companies that will help you travel ...
Travel Essentials
What are the travel essentials and what items should be left at home? Travel Essentials are the things we all ...
Thailand With Kids. No Worries!
Are you worrying about travelling to Thailand with kids? We can help you with that. If you’d like to dip ...
Ways to Be a More Eco Friendly Traveller
Our lives on this planet are changing. We are at a point in time where we all have to do ...
Returning Home After Long-Term Travel
Almost 7 years ago Chef and I sat on the patio and hatched the plan that became an indefinite round ...
Cancelled GoToGate Flights London to Dubai, Pegasus, and Emirates
Yes, it happened, the day we never anticipated. After 5 and a half years of full time travel we met ...
Sell Everything and Travel – How to Start Over in a Travel Lifestyle
Hi there, so you’re as crazy as us! Great to meet you. You’re thinking of selling everything you own and ...
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. 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 ...
3 Years of Travel. Thoughts
Shhhh! They’re all asleep. Wiped out like a small pride of lions after a big day on the savannah. All ...
Family House Sitting. Yes or No?
I’m going to say what I really feel (surprised, right?) and that is, long-term family house sitting as part of ...
Why Travel With Kids
Why do we do this crazy thing, why travel with kids? More importantly, why we think you should travel with ...
6 Places to Ski Around the World, You Might Not Know About
When we think of skiing we normally consider Europe, the United States or Canada. Australians often head to Japan or ...
Planning A Big Trip
This post is about the planning stage of travel. How we do it and how you could do it. How ...
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 ...
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 ...
Location Independent Family, Solopreneur, Digital Nomads, Freedom!
Things gradually changed here at World Travel Family, our blogs started to follow a new course and we’re starting to ...
Family Biking Tips, Trips and Holidays
By travelling, we see the world and to learn about it while enjoying family time and making memories. You all ...
Cheap and Budget Family Accommodation in London
In this post we share the some of the cheaper family accommodation in London that we’ve used over the years. ...
2 Years of Travel, Where Have We Been and What Now?
It’s been two years of travel now. Two years of us, the boys and our backpacks. Two years of adventure, ...
When Natural Disasters Affect Your Travel Plans. Recovering From India
One day we were enjoying India in beautiful Kovalam, planning our next-day flight to Kathmandu and subsequent overland return to ...
How to Haggle in Bangkok.
Everyone knows you need to haggle over prices in Thailand and most other parts of Asia. Some are good at ...
Two Weeks in Istanbul
We’ve been in Istanbul now for almost 2 weeks so I thought I’d do one of those posts where I ...
Do We Travel Because We’re Unhappy?
A new year is just around the corner, all sparkly and shiny and waiting for you and me to enjoy. ...
What Will My Boys Remember?
You may think we’ve not been to many places in 2014, after all, we’ve been exploring London in minute detail ...