Planning and Organising Travel

As most of you will probably know, we’ve signed a contract to rent a small flat in a stunning London location for the next 10 months. We need time to stop, regroup, refinance and generally get our lives in order while enjoying our favourite western city. We are in London, we’re loving it and life …

What to Look for in a Hotel for Your Family Holiday Choosing a hotel for your family holiday is a very individual decision, what we look for is probably the exact opposite of half the global travelling market. Location and Facilities Some families prefer hotels with child-friendly clubs, activities and surrounds, so parents and kids …

We’ve just completed one year of family travel on just under $100 a day. That’s 14 countries, 4 continents and 2 cruises worth of family travel with two now fairly-large kids. $100/day is a lot less than we spent living in our own home. We’re good at saving money, great at budget travel and amazing …

We’ve been “Living the Dream” for 2 years now. We’ve been travelling full-time, seeing the world and spending most of our time together as a family while hardly working, other than on the blogs. Before we set off on this journey we weren’t rich, we were a very normal family struggling to make ends meet …

Kuala Lumpur is a wonderful city, in one moment ultra slick and modern, the next ancient, traditional and cultured. Its a city everybody should experience at least once, and a city that many of us these days visit because of the great connections Air Asia offer. Prices seem low at the moment, they’re lower than …

I’m having a bad day. We have 3 countries coming up in the next two months, we’ll be moving around a lot and I have the job of finding budget family accommodation in a dozen or so towns. That is the hardest part of family travel. It’s frustrating, time consuming and a pain in the …

Four months ago this week I wrote about the things I’d miss as we left Port Douglas to explore the world. Just the three of us, Chef caught up with us later. I haven’t missed home at all, we’re having a brilliant adventure, but things haven’t gone quite as expected. Our unplanned travel style has come …

Travel bloggers will hate me for posting this, but I’m known for my honesty, maybe for being rather pedantic at times. Reading too many travel blogs can give you entirely the wrong impression. This post came about after trusting information from smaller travel blogs and finding that their rosy picture was less than factual. Lonely …

In the words of my friend Gabi, I’m freaking out. Freaking out big-time. The boys and I leave in one week, James will follow on later, we are travelling without Dad for a while. So, how am I spending this last part of my life in Port Douglas? Wafting around sipping champagne and having farewell lunches? …

Nine months of planning family travel down, three to go. In just under 3 months we will be on that plane to freedom. So what has changed since I posted about the first six months of planning? My husband has resigned! The worst kept secret in Port Douglas is out, we can talk about it …

In 2012 we decided to save, sell almost everything and set off to travel the world. This post is from the preparation phase. This is what I wrote back then as a very new, inexperienced blogger. I can’t believe I’m the same person today, things are so different now. Was it worth it? Find out …

I’m a big fan of small group adventure holidays, the more adventure the better, usually. I’ve trekked with the Hill-Tribes in Thailand, toured Tibet, sailed up the Nile on a felucca and hiked the Inca trail with one particular group holiday company. They’ve worked well for me as a solo traveler and as a couple. I’m yet to …