2012: A Year in Random Numbers
Wonders of the World: 5 Mount Everest Petra The Pyramids The Dead Sea The Blue Mosque Our favourite pyramid? The Bent Pyramid at Dahshur, not...
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Travel Planning 2012 — Or, Getting My Sh*t Together, Sort Of
I had high hopes for our sojourn in Blighty. By approximately, umm, now, Z and I would have completed a whirlwind tour of the UK,...
9 Life Lessons Children Learn From Travel
After almost two years on the road, I have to say that if I’d known how much children learn from travel, I’d have started travelling...
Should I Vaccinate My Child For Travel?
The single most surprising question I get asked by readers of this blog is this: “should I vaccinate my child for travel?” I say “surprising”...
Back to School!
Can You Take a Child out of School for a Year? I recently came across a parents group arguing against longterm family travel on the...
The S Word
When the lovely Colin and Tracy asked me over appropriately, err, lubricating quantities of beer, to put together a piece on sex on the road,...
A Very Little House
This is the view from our very little house in the rice fields in Ubud, Bali. We’ve taken it for a month, to study Indonesian...
10 Most Common RTW Planning Mistakes
1: Booking a RTW Ticket If you’re following a fixed route through expensive cities and your time is very limited, RTW tickets can work out...
Our World School: An End of Year Report
For anyone planning longterm travel with kids, anyone who would like to travel and is delaying having kids to do so, or any parents who...
My Love-Hate Relationship with Australia
THINGS I LOVE ABOUT AUSTRALIA 1: The Landscapes After Namibia and Mongolia, Australia is the third least densely populated country in the world. And given...