Exchanging fear for adventure in family travel
My weekly travel tips posts can all be found here. From packing tips to feeding picky eaters, its all here.
I’m in full-on packing mode, Wanderlusters! Usually one to leave it to the last minute, I’ve had to be a little more prepared this time. This is a holiday like none we’ve taken before and I’m panicking a little that we are going to forget something – including the first aid kit! As I’ve been […] Read more…
“Only time can cure jet lag. Allow a day for each hour of time difference and add another day.” Standard jet lag advice. I have no idea who said it or when I heard it. And while it may be true (sorry, I’m not going to tell you how to get over an 8 hour […] Read more…
I don’t know if it is this age of social media where everything seems perfect or just that I am a perfectionist. But I’m starting to realise that part of my problem when we started travelling with kids was my need to have the ‘perfect holiday’. As I sat on the plane, on the way […] Read more…
You’d think, after a lifetime of travelling and a 6 years of travelling with kids that we’d have this down a fine art by now. As some of you know, it was only recently that I got the inspiration to write this blog. Holidays with kids, for us, were not easy (save for a few […] Read more…
I was one of those kids that was a total bookworm. I read everything I could lay my hands on. From the back of a cereal packet to reading in church and on play dates (I know, not cool), I couldn’t stop reading. Never mind summer reading – I was reading all the time! These […] Read more…
Believe me, I’ve been there. We had epic holidays before we had kids. I mean EPIC. We went backpacking in Indonesia and we saw the Taj Mahal. We dived in one of the best dive sites in the world in Borneo before heading off to see orang-utans and watch the sun rise from a mountain […] Read more…
I’m a smartphone kind of girl. In a bit of an addicted kind of way. My mum notices it. I know my friends notice it. My husband and kids notice it. I’ll work on that when I’ve finished a whole bunch of other goals I had for this year (like reading a fiction book – […] Read more…