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Alyson Long of World Travel Family, today, an over 50 female travel blogger, but the Long family still travels frequently and for extended periods, as a family, for this website, and for fun!
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World Travel Family is a website and world travel blog which belongs to Alyson Long and her family. This website has been in existence since 2011 and is one of the biggest travel blogs in the world.
Alyson Long and her family, Chef (James Long) plus kids, D and Boo, travelled full-time for 6 and a half years between 2012 to 2020, and today travel regularly and for extended periods from their home base in Queensland Australia. This website is still updated regularly and new destinations are added.
Alyson Long’s biog briefly includes being a former pupil at Rougemont School in Newport, Wales, a student at the University of Birmingham UK, where she gained her BSc in Biological Sciences, and employment as a senior medical laboratory scientist in Cardiff and London. This female travel blogger is British and Welsh, but has also lived as an expat in Australia, Vietnam, and Romania.
Alyson took up travel blogging, just for fun, in 2011, and it went well. She now makes a living as a travel blogger and is a published author in the homeschooling and worldschooling niche.
Alyson has also written for many quality magazines, newspapers and publications (such as Lonely Planet and The Independent plus various in-flight magazines) and regularly talks on podcasts and YouTube channels around the world.
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Hi I’m thinking of backpacking with my husband and 3 kids was just wondering roughly how much is it a month to do that. And what about the school?
Depending where you go and your spending habits – $50 – $100 – $150 per day should be enough. We have a lot of content on costs in our money category. For education, see the top menu – worldschooling.
Dear Alison and family,
Thank you for your great website! It’s inspired us lots! We are a family from the UK currently travelling with our 9 year old daughter (we have been to South Africa, Australia, Fiji so far and are in New Zealand now) and we will be in Vietnam for two months starting mid February. Having lived, worked and traveled in Asia on my own for many years (but 13 years ago!) I can’t wait to get back to it, although I’ve never been to Vietnam — and things have changed!!!! Like you, we want to base ourselves Hoi An for a month or so and were wondering if you can recommend any expat sites for finding more long term accommodation – or if you can recommend any long term accommodation that is not too pricy.
Many thanks for being such an inspiration!
Merry Christmas!
Marie (and Kiki and Colin)
Get in touch with our landlady there Dao Bich. I think I link to her Facebook page in the post. Best of luck.
Ultra niche can work great, if there are enough people to support it. Are there many mid 50s childless, dogless, Nor Cal interested people? This site is huge, very, very – un niche, ( you are not our demographic – so it would appear to most who assume this is a “with kids” site – it’s not) niche sites are quicker to gain authority but you have to get the SEO right from day one and be pro-active with gaining backlinks if possible. The only reason I’ve managed to be so un-niche is because I’ve created 10-20 posts around each topic or destination, they all support each other. Also you have to provide value. The people wanting to spend money on your affiliate links, book your hotels etc. will be looking for solid information, or, if you’re looking to be an influencer, want to follow in your footsteps. Influencer isn’t really what we do, although if you look in our scuba diving section we are considered influencers in that area. I don’t know – but best of luck to you. Get stuck in. Nothing was ever gained by not trying.
Thank you Yasmine.
Hi Alyson,
We really love your site. I am very much interested in worldschooling and just getting information about it. I would like to know do you or the kids document your travels like not in the site or blog but on paper,
what i mean is that we are planning to go to Jordan. now i would like my kids to learn about the culture, history etc. so after we visit the county do u document in any way.
Thanks
Not in a journaling sort of way, no, because my boys loathed writing on paper with every particle of their souls. From time to time they have created blog posts on places if you find D’s author page there are posts on Ancient Egypt, Manta Rays, Thai History, Namche Bazaar. Maybe more, I can’t remember. Funny thing is now, he does Open University, he’ll write pages and pages of notes for his own use, but as kids they both hated it. No, I’ve never ( once I realised how pointless it was) forced them to do stuff they didn’t want to do, it’s proved unnecessary. Boo had ( actually still has) his own website. It’s called Boy Around the World but he hasn’t touched it in years. He did that for fun, he was convinced it would make him money and he loved watching his daily stats. I think he was 7. These days he’s busy chasing YouTube stats on his channel. D makes all the videos on the site and is co-writer and creator, accompanying me on business trips and tours for third parties. It all worked out pretty well! They will learn what they need to learn when they want or need to learn it. The structure and busy work of schools isn’t how it should be. It took me a few years to figure that out too!
Hi, my wife and I love your videos. We started traveling full time about 3 months ago with our 12 year old daughter. Our biggest struggle is getting our daughter socially interacted. We are currently in Rome and are heading to Germany soon. Would you happen to know how to connect with other like minded travelers with kids? I would love to find another couple who could have the means and can travel with us. I was hoping you had some resources.
Thanks for your time!
Hi there, no, not really, sorry. We always stay in guest houses or hotels with common areas, restaurants, bars, to hang out, there are usually plenty of human beings around. We actually don’t go in for arranged meet ups, rarely. People contact us all the time if we’re based in one place for a while but we don’t find we need that level of social interaction, we’re more than happy just doing us. We like to keep very busy though, we don’t spend time hanging about much. As a very happy introvert I’m not the best person to talk to sorry. The kids talk to people online constantly. As soon as we’ve got some down time they’re chatting on the internet through gaming, streaming, YouTubers etc. More and more we’re doing group tours and activities, for instance Bhutan, Tibet and Borneo. One of the kids enjoys meeting people that way Trekking or anything physical is great for my son, walking with people is a good way to chat. Just remember that you won’t like some of the people you meet and will have almost zero in common, but that’s great for the kids too, learning what they like and dislike in people and how to handle them. You need a few days with other people to get to know them at all, so longer term co-travelling is better. Europe is different though, I don’t think it really has the same backpacker vibe and circuit as Asia. Try our private Facebook Group, Living Differently, a few thousand travellers in there.
Hi Diana, if you go to our money section you’ll find a lot of content relating to costs, also hit up our destinations page – it’s in the top menu. Between $50 and $100 US per day is my ballpark figure, but of course, everyone spends differently and even within SEAsia costs vary. If you find the page relating to costs or destinations and comment on those pages I can help you better. All the best
I have no idea what country you’re in, nor what interests you. but start in Bangkok or Kuala Lumpur, depending on flights, and overland around South East Asia – would be my pick for easiest, most interesting, best food and most affordable.
HI we are a German/English family, two sons, 4 and 8, living in Berlin. We have an opportunity next year, because of school timings and kindergarten, to travel for 6 months to a year. We have a little money saved but not much, so would plan to travel by land, staying for some time in each destination and hopefully work as we go. We are trained in Architecture, Construction and Research. The purpose is in educating ourselves and kids further on the Changing Climate, and hopefully volunteering our time to useful projects because this seems like an opportunity that may not happen again after schooling starts etc. We are at the very very early stages and would love any advice you may have to get us going. Thanks a million.
Hi (awesome blog!)
When you give quotes in $ are you referring to US$. Trying to figure a budget on NZ $
Cheers
Yes. If it was Au I’d say Au. But when we started this site $ and Au$ were 1:1 so it made no difference – not any more !
Hi, I am mobile app developer and love to travel. I like to code while I travel. I can teach science, history, geography. I am also quite fluent with the English language. How can I travel across the world without paying a fortune ?
Book a one way ticket to a cheap destination, find cheap lodgings, live frugally and work like crazy !
Thank you. I only switched it onday before yesterday because somebody complained there wasn’t one. Sorry for annoying you. I’ll switch it off again.
I can help you, but this isn’t the place. Could you copy / paste the above into an e-mail, [email protected] I can’t have comments like this here, sorry, I need to delete them all for SEO reasons. Cheers.
Hi beautiful family.
Yours has been a great find for me. My name is Ian Jege, I am writing to you from Nairobi, Kenya.
I found you as I was researching on Digital Nomad Families. See I am just about to come into some unexpected money and I have been thinking I need to do something with it that would completely change mine and my families lives. Earlier today I was watching the documentary GIVEN and my soul was literally reaching out from within. I am about to propose to my wife that we take a gap year and travel the world (as much of it as we can see in one year anyway). We have a 4-year-old who started school earlier in the year which brings me to my first question…more like a request. How do you educate your children while on the go? I know the one year away from the rat race will change our lives but I am hoping to adopt a learning program for our daughter just in case at the end of a year my wife opts to put her back to school.
My last question (request), what criteria would you suggest we use to pick our destinations and durations? Different cultures, cuisine, and breathtaking sceneries are high on my priority list. We most definitely don’t want to do the all-inclusive hotel packages throughout our travels, it’s expensive and I think it beats the purpose of trying to see the world.
I know you get a lot of emails from your fanbase (with good reason), I will be truly grateful for a response whenever you are able to. Much appreciated! Happy travels beautiful people!
If you go to the top menu on our site there is a tab ” Worldschooling ” or ” homeschooling” Open that. There are many, many posts on this site on that subject. How to pick where to go? Well brainstorm as a family. Write a list of the places you most want to see, then string them together in a way that makes sense. For 1 year maybe you’ll want to book your flights in advance. We had no time restrictions so never booked anything ahead, we just did what we felt like doing. I think it can be cheaper to keep your options open rather than pre-book all your flights.
Thank Alyson. Your website is a fantastic resource.
Sorry. This isn’t the page for that. Please use the email address above. Thanks.
Hi! I’ve loved reading through your blog. This is the life my family of five is trying to set up in the next 9 months or so. I’d love to join your blog group next go around.
Hello,
Thank you for the comments about Egypt. They are very helpful as we are planning to go there just after the New Year’Eve.
Thanks for trying Brad, I don’t really know how it works, I’ve literally just set it up. I’ll keep playing with it.
Sorted Brad, I made a Paypal button. Thanks again. I’ll keep pumping out the content for you and all our readers.
Hi Alyson,
It is an IE problem. It is working in chrome and safari. A monthly donation is required. I like the paypal button! I am looking forward to hearing about Nepal and the Himalayas.
Brad
Thank you brad and of course your website will now be one of our favourites 🙂
Hi Sabine, do not use any of those website builder things, you need a self hosted site, running on wordpress. Go to our blogging section for lots of help on this. ( top right in the menu)
No Liz, I don’t know why you’d need them. The kids are never out of our sight. Where are they going to be going that they’d need anything like this?
We are in Pakistan early next year doing the K2 trek….send us an email. Will delete this comment once you’ve got it.
Hi!
Fell on your page quite by accident…loved it! I am totally different in demographic profile – most often solo travel, been at it for more than 25 years, Sri Lankan Female.
But I was so taken with how similar your style is to a solo traveler. It has to take a very special level of curiosity, tolerance and love for all things to travel this way with kids.
Loved what you said about bus travel. – my sentiments exactly 🙂
Will e-mail you to talk about some travel links. Hope that is ok.
All the very best for great times ahead!
Nera
We will be in Kathmandu soon. We can talk about your promotional needs.
Wow Camping in Asia! Now that’s something I know nothing about. But how are you driving from Europe to Asia, which route? That’s something I’d LOVE to do. What an adventure!
We’re not in Bangkok sorry Carmen. Have a great trip!
We might see you there Nathalie 🙂
I don’t think the communities you describe exist Paula. Do you mean online or in real life? We travel, so we’re only in one place a few days. For online community join our Living Differently Facebook group. Best wishes.
Please find the relevant pages of this website Denrunr, all your questions are fully answered. This is our media contact page, find the homeschooling section either top menu ” worldschooling”, or drop down menu in the right hand side bar of the front page. Thanks.
Don’t think we have one of those posts, sorry Eve! Good luck and enjoy 🙂
Hi Tara,
We do indeed. Shoot me an email to [email protected] If it’s anything major I have to charge, sorry, but a quick email is free. We plan trips for people, longest so far was 8 months 🙂
Please apply by email, thanks.
Please send me an email, cheers
No problem Emily.
Croatia? Some lovely coastline there and very cheap. Anywhere in Greece, love the food! Crete? We really enjoyed mainland Greece last year, bags of history. Really, take your pick, you’ve got endless choices, if price is a factor stick with eastern Europe, once you get to western Europe prices are high.
I’m sure people do Hanna and I’ve taken on VA work from time to time ( Pinterest!). It’s fixed income but it’s also fixed hours so very difficult to travel at the same time, I even find it hard to work for myself when we’re actively travelling, this is why we take big breaks in London or Romania, it’s work and school time. With regard maths, I’m not great either, I got a C at 14 years old and never felt I was “good” at maths despite being a professional scientist. I know now more maths than EVER, thanks to Khan Academy, it’s free and Sal Khan explains things so brilliantly, it’s a million miles better than school, do that together instead! I don’t think part time school is generally an option and kids socialise far better outside of segregated institutions where they’re forced to spend their days with a bunch of same-age kids not of their choosing. Good luck! ( Join our Living Differently Facebook Group for more support)
Thankyou Alyson, I have joined the group today so thankyou! 🙂
To take a child out of school you need to un-enroll her or risk truancy, so yes, you will lose your place in the UK. Have you considered not doing GCSEs, they’re not compulsory? Take her out and keep her out. If you have to work obviously that’s an issue, but nothing says she has to be in school in the UK. If she feels she wants to do GCSEs, maybe she wants to get onto a course that demands them, the British iGCSE system exists, no school attendance required. you do not need GCSEs to progress in life, earn a living, be self employed or get into university. But you can pick your subject, learn the work, take the exam.
OK Freda, I’ll add that to the Greece post ASAP. I’m deleting the above comment as it’s on the wrong page, cheers.
Louise-
Curious to see what you learn. We are a US based family of five that is looking at taking off for 6 months including a long stretch through India, Nepal, Cambodia, Thailand and Australia.
Keith,
We did a month in Nepal this year, it was fabulous, but pretty tough, hardest yet for them. The kids have also been to all of the countries you mention above. If you go to our destinations page, you’ll find the links you need there. https://worldtravelfamily.com/travel-blog-places-destinations/
No, only to Jaffna, everything between Jaffna and Negombo, on he coast, is a mystery to us, but inland, yes, of course.
Just as easy to do it outside Australia as inside Natalie. My advice would be to just leave them to enjoy the year and not worry about it. If you need help email me [email protected]. You will not be able to register as an Australian homeschooler, but if the children are un-enrolled from school, they don’t need to be, they’re not truant. If you want to retain some form of registration you’ll have to do distance ed, but state regulations vary.
Hi I’m thinking of backpacking with my husband and 3 kids was just wondering roughly how much is it a month to do that. And what about the school?
Depending where you go and your spending habits – $50 – $100 – $150 per day should be enough. We have a lot of content on costs in our money category. For education, see the top menu – worldschooling.
Dear Alison and family,
Thank you for your great website! It’s inspired us lots! We are a family from the UK currently travelling with our 9 year old daughter (we have been to South Africa, Australia, Fiji so far and are in New Zealand now) and we will be in Vietnam for two months starting mid February. Having lived, worked and traveled in Asia on my own for many years (but 13 years ago!) I can’t wait to get back to it, although I’ve never been to Vietnam — and things have changed!!!! Like you, we want to base ourselves Hoi An for a month or so and were wondering if you can recommend any expat sites for finding more long term accommodation – or if you can recommend any long term accommodation that is not too pricy.
Many thanks for being such an inspiration!
Merry Christmas!
Marie (and Kiki and Colin)
Get in touch with our landlady there Dao Bich. I think I link to her Facebook page in the post. Best of luck.
Ultra niche can work great, if there are enough people to support it. Are there many mid 50s childless, dogless, Nor Cal interested people? This site is huge, very, very – un niche, ( you are not our demographic – so it would appear to most who assume this is a “with kids” site – it’s not) niche sites are quicker to gain authority but you have to get the SEO right from day one and be pro-active with gaining backlinks if possible. The only reason I’ve managed to be so un-niche is because I’ve created 10-20 posts around each topic or destination, they all support each other. Also you have to provide value. The people wanting to spend money on your affiliate links, book your hotels etc. will be looking for solid information, or, if you’re looking to be an influencer, want to follow in your footsteps. Influencer isn’t really what we do, although if you look in our scuba diving section we are considered influencers in that area. I don’t know – but best of luck to you. Get stuck in. Nothing was ever gained by not trying.
Thank you Yasmine.
Hi Alyson,
We really love your site. I am very much interested in worldschooling and just getting information about it. I would like to know do you or the kids document your travels like not in the site or blog but on paper,
what i mean is that we are planning to go to Jordan. now i would like my kids to learn about the culture, history etc. so after we visit the county do u document in any way.
Thanks
Not in a journaling sort of way, no, because my boys loathed writing on paper with every particle of their souls. From time to time they have created blog posts on places if you find D’s author page there are posts on Ancient Egypt, Manta Rays, Thai History, Namche Bazaar. Maybe more, I can’t remember. Funny thing is now, he does Open University, he’ll write pages and pages of notes for his own use, but as kids they both hated it. No, I’ve never ( once I realised how pointless it was) forced them to do stuff they didn’t want to do, it’s proved unnecessary. Boo had ( actually still has) his own website. It’s called Boy Around the World but he hasn’t touched it in years. He did that for fun, he was convinced it would make him money and he loved watching his daily stats. I think he was 7. These days he’s busy chasing YouTube stats on his channel. D makes all the videos on the site and is co-writer and creator, accompanying me on business trips and tours for third parties. It all worked out pretty well! They will learn what they need to learn when they want or need to learn it. The structure and busy work of schools isn’t how it should be. It took me a few years to figure that out too!
Hi, my wife and I love your videos. We started traveling full time about 3 months ago with our 12 year old daughter. Our biggest struggle is getting our daughter socially interacted. We are currently in Rome and are heading to Germany soon. Would you happen to know how to connect with other like minded travelers with kids? I would love to find another couple who could have the means and can travel with us. I was hoping you had some resources.
Thanks for your time!
Hi there, no, not really, sorry. We always stay in guest houses or hotels with common areas, restaurants, bars, to hang out, there are usually plenty of human beings around. We actually don’t go in for arranged meet ups, rarely. People contact us all the time if we’re based in one place for a while but we don’t find we need that level of social interaction, we’re more than happy just doing us. We like to keep very busy though, we don’t spend time hanging about much. As a very happy introvert I’m not the best person to talk to sorry. The kids talk to people online constantly. As soon as we’ve got some down time they’re chatting on the internet through gaming, streaming, YouTubers etc. More and more we’re doing group tours and activities, for instance Bhutan, Tibet and Borneo. One of the kids enjoys meeting people that way Trekking or anything physical is great for my son, walking with people is a good way to chat. Just remember that you won’t like some of the people you meet and will have almost zero in common, but that’s great for the kids too, learning what they like and dislike in people and how to handle them. You need a few days with other people to get to know them at all, so longer term co-travelling is better. Europe is different though, I don’t think it really has the same backpacker vibe and circuit as Asia. Try our private Facebook Group, Living Differently, a few thousand travellers in there.
Hi Diana, if you go to our money section you’ll find a lot of content relating to costs, also hit up our destinations page – it’s in the top menu. Between $50 and $100 US per day is my ballpark figure, but of course, everyone spends differently and even within SEAsia costs vary. If you find the page relating to costs or destinations and comment on those pages I can help you better. All the best
I have no idea what country you’re in, nor what interests you. but start in Bangkok or Kuala Lumpur, depending on flights, and overland around South East Asia – would be my pick for easiest, most interesting, best food and most affordable.
HI we are a German/English family, two sons, 4 and 8, living in Berlin. We have an opportunity next year, because of school timings and kindergarten, to travel for 6 months to a year. We have a little money saved but not much, so would plan to travel by land, staying for some time in each destination and hopefully work as we go. We are trained in Architecture, Construction and Research. The purpose is in educating ourselves and kids further on the Changing Climate, and hopefully volunteering our time to useful projects because this seems like an opportunity that may not happen again after schooling starts etc. We are at the very very early stages and would love any advice you may have to get us going. Thanks a million.
Hi (awesome blog!)
When you give quotes in $ are you referring to US$. Trying to figure a budget on NZ $
Cheers
Yes. If it was Au I’d say Au. But when we started this site $ and Au$ were 1:1 so it made no difference – not any more !
Hi, I am mobile app developer and love to travel. I like to code while I travel. I can teach science, history, geography. I am also quite fluent with the English language. How can I travel across the world without paying a fortune ?
Book a one way ticket to a cheap destination, find cheap lodgings, live frugally and work like crazy !
Thank you. I only switched it onday before yesterday because somebody complained there wasn’t one. Sorry for annoying you. I’ll switch it off again.
feel free to send an email to [email protected]
You’ve given me the wrong email address.
I can help you, but this isn’t the place. Could you copy / paste the above into an e-mail, [email protected] I can’t have comments like this here, sorry, I need to delete them all for SEO reasons. Cheers.
Hi beautiful family.
Yours has been a great find for me. My name is Ian Jege, I am writing to you from Nairobi, Kenya.
I found you as I was researching on Digital Nomad Families. See I am just about to come into some unexpected money and I have been thinking I need to do something with it that would completely change mine and my families lives. Earlier today I was watching the documentary GIVEN and my soul was literally reaching out from within. I am about to propose to my wife that we take a gap year and travel the world (as much of it as we can see in one year anyway). We have a 4-year-old who started school earlier in the year which brings me to my first question…more like a request. How do you educate your children while on the go? I know the one year away from the rat race will change our lives but I am hoping to adopt a learning program for our daughter just in case at the end of a year my wife opts to put her back to school.
My last question (request), what criteria would you suggest we use to pick our destinations and durations? Different cultures, cuisine, and breathtaking sceneries are high on my priority list. We most definitely don’t want to do the all-inclusive hotel packages throughout our travels, it’s expensive and I think it beats the purpose of trying to see the world.
I know you get a lot of emails from your fanbase (with good reason), I will be truly grateful for a response whenever you are able to. Much appreciated! Happy travels beautiful people!
If you go to the top menu on our site there is a tab ” Worldschooling ” or ” homeschooling” Open that. There are many, many posts on this site on that subject. How to pick where to go? Well brainstorm as a family. Write a list of the places you most want to see, then string them together in a way that makes sense. For 1 year maybe you’ll want to book your flights in advance. We had no time restrictions so never booked anything ahead, we just did what we felt like doing. I think it can be cheaper to keep your options open rather than pre-book all your flights.
Thank Alyson. Your website is a fantastic resource.
Sorry. This isn’t the page for that. Please use the email address above. Thanks.
Hi! I’ve loved reading through your blog. This is the life my family of five is trying to set up in the next 9 months or so. I’d love to join your blog group next go around.
Hello,
Thank you for the comments about Egypt. They are very helpful as we are planning to go there just after the New Year’Eve.
Thanks for trying Brad, I don’t really know how it works, I’ve literally just set it up. I’ll keep playing with it.
Sorted Brad, I made a Paypal button. Thanks again. I’ll keep pumping out the content for you and all our readers.
Hi Alyson,
It is an IE problem. It is working in chrome and safari. A monthly donation is required. I like the paypal button! I am looking forward to hearing about Nepal and the Himalayas.
Brad
Thank you brad and of course your website will now be one of our favourites 🙂
Hi Sabine, do not use any of those website builder things, you need a self hosted site, running on wordpress. Go to our blogging section for lots of help on this. ( top right in the menu)
No Liz, I don’t know why you’d need them. The kids are never out of our sight. Where are they going to be going that they’d need anything like this?
We are in Pakistan early next year doing the K2 trek….send us an email. Will delete this comment once you’ve got it.
Hi!
Fell on your page quite by accident…loved it! I am totally different in demographic profile – most often solo travel, been at it for more than 25 years, Sri Lankan Female.
But I was so taken with how similar your style is to a solo traveler. It has to take a very special level of curiosity, tolerance and love for all things to travel this way with kids.
Loved what you said about bus travel. – my sentiments exactly 🙂
Will e-mail you to talk about some travel links. Hope that is ok.
All the very best for great times ahead!
Nera
We will be in Kathmandu soon. We can talk about your promotional needs.
Wow Camping in Asia! Now that’s something I know nothing about. But how are you driving from Europe to Asia, which route? That’s something I’d LOVE to do. What an adventure!
We’re not in Bangkok sorry Carmen. Have a great trip!
We might see you there Nathalie 🙂
I don’t think the communities you describe exist Paula. Do you mean online or in real life? We travel, so we’re only in one place a few days. For online community join our Living Differently Facebook group. Best wishes.
Please find the relevant pages of this website Denrunr, all your questions are fully answered. This is our media contact page, find the homeschooling section either top menu ” worldschooling”, or drop down menu in the right hand side bar of the front page. Thanks.
Don’t think we have one of those posts, sorry Eve! Good luck and enjoy 🙂
Hi Tara,
We do indeed. Shoot me an email to [email protected] If it’s anything major I have to charge, sorry, but a quick email is free. We plan trips for people, longest so far was 8 months 🙂
Please apply by email, thanks.
Please send me an email, cheers
No problem Emily.
Croatia? Some lovely coastline there and very cheap. Anywhere in Greece, love the food! Crete? We really enjoyed mainland Greece last year, bags of history. Really, take your pick, you’ve got endless choices, if price is a factor stick with eastern Europe, once you get to western Europe prices are high.
I’m sure people do Hanna and I’ve taken on VA work from time to time ( Pinterest!). It’s fixed income but it’s also fixed hours so very difficult to travel at the same time, I even find it hard to work for myself when we’re actively travelling, this is why we take big breaks in London or Romania, it’s work and school time. With regard maths, I’m not great either, I got a C at 14 years old and never felt I was “good” at maths despite being a professional scientist. I know now more maths than EVER, thanks to Khan Academy, it’s free and Sal Khan explains things so brilliantly, it’s a million miles better than school, do that together instead! I don’t think part time school is generally an option and kids socialise far better outside of segregated institutions where they’re forced to spend their days with a bunch of same-age kids not of their choosing. Good luck! ( Join our Living Differently Facebook Group for more support)
Thankyou Alyson, I have joined the group today so thankyou! 🙂
To take a child out of school you need to un-enroll her or risk truancy, so yes, you will lose your place in the UK. Have you considered not doing GCSEs, they’re not compulsory? Take her out and keep her out. If you have to work obviously that’s an issue, but nothing says she has to be in school in the UK. If she feels she wants to do GCSEs, maybe she wants to get onto a course that demands them, the British iGCSE system exists, no school attendance required. you do not need GCSEs to progress in life, earn a living, be self employed or get into university. But you can pick your subject, learn the work, take the exam.
OK Freda, I’ll add that to the Greece post ASAP. I’m deleting the above comment as it’s on the wrong page, cheers.
Louise-
Curious to see what you learn. We are a US based family of five that is looking at taking off for 6 months including a long stretch through India, Nepal, Cambodia, Thailand and Australia.
Keith,
We did a month in Nepal this year, it was fabulous, but pretty tough, hardest yet for them. The kids have also been to all of the countries you mention above. If you go to our destinations page, you’ll find the links you need there. https://worldtravelfamily.com/travel-blog-places-destinations/
No, only to Jaffna, everything between Jaffna and Negombo, on he coast, is a mystery to us, but inland, yes, of course.
No Nikki, we don’t do that.
Did yu see his post that just went out? Snap! https://worldtravelfamily.com/planning-a-big-trip-family-travel/
Just as easy to do it outside Australia as inside Natalie. My advice would be to just leave them to enjoy the year and not worry about it. If you need help email me [email protected]. You will not be able to register as an Australian homeschooler, but if the children are un-enrolled from school, they don’t need to be, they’re not truant. If you want to retain some form of registration you’ll have to do distance ed, but state regulations vary.