Things To Do With Kids in Bali — Sick Child Edition
Zac is well on the mend from his surgery. But not enough to do many of his favourite things, or even ride a motorbike —...
Author: Theodora
How To Climb Mount Kinabalu with Kids
Mount Kinabalu, in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo, is marketed as the highest mountain in South-East Asia, excluding the Himalayas and Puncak Jaya in Indonesian Papua. And...
How Many Countries Have You Visited?
I’m sometimes asked in interviews, and recently included in a bio, the number of countries I’ve visited. You’d think “How many countries have you visited?”...
What is Ubud Like? A Few Perspectives
Embarrassingly for someone who writes for a living and has spent months in Ubud, I spectacularly failed the other night to answer the question “What...
Bali — A GREAT Place to Lose a Child
When it comes to places to lose a child, I can confirm that Bali beats the hell out of Bulgaria and the UK. It’s not...
The Art of Flying Solo
Zac is rising 12. That’s the magic age at which many airlines let children fly not as an unaccompanied minor, with a bevy of hosties...
Postcards from…. Istanbul
We loved Istanbul — and not just Cihangir. The capital of great empires for 1500 years, first Byzantium, then Constantinople, the city forms a boundary...
1000 Days, 1000 Dollars! The EscapeArtistes Giveaway!
I’m Giving Away Over $1000 Worth of Travel! To celebrate our 1000th day of travel and the all-new, spangly EscapeArtistes, I’m giving away over $1000...
100 Lessons From 1000 Days of Travel
Today marks our thousandth day of longterm travel. So here are 100 lessons I’ve learnt from those — almost entirely wonderful – 1000 days. 1....
Language Soup
So we’re back in Turkey, en route to Bali, by way of Malaysia, and my brain just turned to language soup. Like most Britons, I...