Planning

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, ...
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How to Travel With Carry On Only

Travel, international or domestic, be it for a week, a month, or multiple months is very much easier if you ...
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Bangkok to Chiang Mai (2024)

A favourite part of any trip to Thailand, the Bangkok to Chiang Mai journey, is to be enjoyed not endured. ...
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This Is How To Find The Cheapest Flights For Your Family

Of all the tools we used for finding bargains in the travel world, Skyscanner was number 1, until the day ...
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Family Gap Year

A family gap year is a wonderful opportunity for parents and kids to bond, experience the world together, learn so ...
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Planning a Trip to Thailand

Thailand is a beautiful country with much to offer holidaymakers, travellers and tourists. Thailand has stunning beaches, ancient temples, delicious ...
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Staycation Tips & What Is a Staycation?

I’m a traveller, a dedicated globe trotter and wanderluster, but something weird has happened lately. I’m loving just being at ...
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Proof of Onward Travel for Thailand. Do You Need It?

This is the question I’m asked most in our Facebook group – Living Differently. Do I need onward flight tickets, ...
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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 ...
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Thailand Itinerary 2 Weeks and 3 Weeks

A reader asked me to write a Thailand itinerary for her 3-week vacation, I think it’s best to start with ...
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How We Scored a Free Week of Hotel Stays in Thailand – Agoda Cash

This week we’re touring northern Thailand by car, it’s amazing, fascinating and fun with the added bonus of being incredibly ...
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Getting a New UK Passport in Bangkok Thailand, British Passport Renewal

This is how we renewed a UK passport in Bangkok. British passport renewal in Thailand. Our younger son’s UK passport ...
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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 ...
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GetYourGuide Review

We’ve been travelling and taking tours full-time for over 5 years now and more and more we’re using GetYourGuide to ...
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Europe Road Trip Costs

A reader asked me to post about our European road trip costs, so we collected the data, saved every receipt ...
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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 ...
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Pre-Vacation Checklist.

Travelling and vacations are always exciting and fun thing to do. What’s not that exciting, is having to prepare and ...
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How to Travel the World?

You want to know how to travel the world, right? We’ve done it, so can you. It could be a ...
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Handling Your Money in Thailand. Quick Guide and Tips

Thailand is one of the more tricky countries for travellers to handle their travel money at minimum cost. We normally ...
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AirBnB for Families. Finally Winning!

I’m famous for saying that AirBnb is useless for families and we never use it. If you’re not on Facebook ...
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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 ...
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Planning A Big Trip

This post is about the planning stage of travel. How we do it and how you could do it. How ...
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Travel Budget? We Don’t Set One

It’s true. We are great at budget travel – without a budget. People ask about our travel budget, what it ...
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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. ...
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How to Save Money on Flights with Skyscanner-But Should You?

Of all the tools we used for finding bargains in the travel world, Skyscanner was number 1, until the day ...
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How Does House Sitting Work?

House sitting is a mode of travel in which a volunteer moves into a house to take care of pets, ...
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What to Look For in a Hotel for Your Family Holiday

What to Look for in a Hotel for Your Family Holiday Choosing a hotel for your family holiday is a ...
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Where Not to Save Money on Travel

There are ways to save money on travel that are great, a good idea, the best ways. But trying to ...
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How to Have Freedom and Change Your Life. Finding Freedom in Life

We’ve been “Living the Dream” for 2 years now. We’ve been travelling full-time, seeing the world and spending most of ...
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Kuala Lumpur. Best Family Accommodation, Malaysia

Kuala Lumpur is a wonderful city, in one moment ultra slick and modern, the next ancient, traditional and cultured. Its ...
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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. ...
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Travel Blogs vs Lonely Planet

Travel bloggers will hate me for posting this, but I’m known for my honesty, maybe for being rather pedantic at ...
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Planning Family Travel: One Week To Go!

We are a family planning to set out on a travel adventure. Our aim is to travel indefinitely or for ...
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Planning Family Travel: Three Months To Go

We are a family planning to travel the world. We are three months from our departure date. The first post ...
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Am I Making This Look Too Easy?

In 2012 we decided to save, sell almost everything and set off to travel the world. This post is from ...
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Small Group Adventure Holidays. What’s Group Adventure Travel Like?

Small group adventure holidays usually involve travel to an adventure holiday destination, domestic or international, and touring or taking part ...
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