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...]
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 carry on only travel … [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 2018
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...]
Travel Medical Kit & Health on The Road
We've been travelling full-time for over 4 years now and, yes, we've all had minor health problems, the travel medical kit has had a work out. Boo and The Chef have been what my mum would call "proper poorly" in Laos. Poorly is only proper if you have a fever and/or vomiting that keeps you in bed or at home. There have been multiple cuts, scrapes and rashes. We all had flu is … [Read more...]
Travel Essentials I Couldn’t Travel Without
It's been 5 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. I think I wrote a few posts about what I was probably going to pack, almost 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 stuff … [Read more...]
What I Pack For a Round The World Trip ( I’m not normal !)
When I say " What to pack for a round the world trip", I don't necessarily mean what you should pack for a round the world trip, this is what I pack for a round the world trip. I warn you, I'm not normal! This is my second RTW, so I know it works for me. I'm not doing gear here, head torches, first aid kits, etc, they're in our travel gear section of the travel store, this … [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...]
