It's been 8 years on the road now, what are our travel essentials and what should we have left at home? I spent 12 months thinking about what to pack for this, now epic, RTW trip. I wrote a few posts about travel gear and what I was probably going to pack as a way of getting it straight in my head and curing my terrible packing anxiety. When crunch time came I took a lot less … [Read more...]
5 Best Portable Battery Packs for Travel
With more and more travel essential gadgets requiring charging, it's little wonder that people are turning to portable battery packs to help fill the power gap when travelling. Be aware that not all battery packs are created equal in build, quality or price. Below I've listed 5 of the most common and widely regarded best chargers on the market at multiple price points. We carry … [Read more...]
How to Make Packing Simple
4 years on the road and 50+ countries under our belts, we know how important it is to simplify your packing. If you have a packing system in place and know what you're going to pack along with where and how you're going to pack it, all of that packing anxiety just floats away and you never forget the things you need. We travel with backpacks and travel packs, my husband prefers … [Read more...]
How to Carry-On Your Marmite in Hand Luggage
My husband is a genius. OK, sometimes he's not, but today he is. A few months ago he had my precious Marmite confiscated by security as he boarded his Romania-bound flight in Luton, leaving me Marmite-less for another few months. That was an example of him not being a genius. Yesterday, he arrived triumphant with Marmite carried legally through airport security checks in his … [Read more...]
Best Travel Organisers
Travel organisers are lifesavers. I don't carry much gear for a professional full-time traveler, but I saw the Bubm organisers on Amazon and had to have one I've carried it every day since. When looking for the best travel organisers I picked the Bubm below from a competitive market. I was sick of passport, documents, leads, cables, plugs, adaptors, phones, power packs, … [Read more...]
How to Travel With Carry On Only
If you've been following us right from the start, you'll know that I always said I'd never travel with carry on only. I even wrote a post about why we'd never travel light. We just had too much stuff as long-term travellers and the children were too small for their own, decent sized, packs. Well that was then, this is now and lately we've turned to flying carry on only and … [Read more...]
Why We Don’t Travel Light
We don't travel light. We travel with 2 large backpacks, 2 small kids' backpacks and 2 pieces of adult carry-on luggage, both containing laptops. It's the absolute maximum we can carry, just within weight limits for planes and our bodies. Here it all is waiting for a train from Mirissa to Colombo in the early hours of our final Sri Lankan morning. It's a terrible photo, but … [Read more...]
Christmas Gifts For Kids and Families Who Travel
If you are keen world travellers or you know a travelling family, you'll like our ideas for Christmas travel gifts for kids and families. In this post we include travel-related gifts, often educational, as well as small gifts to pack in a suitcase or backpack for children and families on the road. We have practical, fun and useful gifts for kids who travel or love to … [Read more...]
Backpacking with Kids Tips
We've been backpacking with kids, full-time for well over 5 years so we can share the best tips with you. For us it's the vacation that never ended and we're that rare thing, a family travel blog that actually travels, right now, today in 2019. We ditched the regular family vacations for a life of backpacker travel and adventure and have never once regretted that choice. … [Read more...]
Backpack, Travel Pack or Suitcase? Which to Choose.
I'm sure you all know what backpacks and suitcases are, but many won't know about travel packs. They are my preferred luggage, I've been carrying the same travel pack around the world since 2012 and it's still in great condition. But how to choose which style of luggage is best for you? To a great extent, the choice of backpack, travel pack or suitcase is one of personal … [Read more...]
Packing Anxiety
My husband laughs at my packing. He laughed even harder when I mentioned that I was going to blog about packing for, you see, in the last 4 years of full time travel, of constantly moving on to pastures new, packing anxiety has been my constant companion. I hate packing! I really, really can't stand the stress, it leaves me agitated, confused and wound up. Thankfully I love … [Read more...]