Swimming with turtles: A once in a lifetime experience Hello friends! We have just arrived back from taking our kids to have possibly the coolest experience yet of our full time travel: swimming with turtles in Sri Lanka. (Head to the bottom of the post for where to do it and how much it . . .
Disadvantages of homeschooling? Couple time!
Lack of couple time: one of the disadvantages of homeschooling? Top o’ the morning to ya, and what a fine day it is. A cloud of micro-flies has set up camp in our bathroom and refuses to leave no matter what we do, there is a monkey dangling his ‘bits’ over the edge of our roof and Patrick just got . . .
Sri Lanka travel blog 2018 : A REAL day in the life of a full time travelling family
A REAL Sri Lanka travel blog 2018 Hey friends. I've recently got a fair few requests for more personal posts, stories, real-life-with-travelling-kids kinda stuff, and I just LOVE to make y'all happy, so here you are. A day in the life of our full time travelling family. A real day, in a real . . .
Travel’s greatest gift
A short one today. Yesterday after a morning spent working, I walked into a hot yoga studio. Except it wasn't, it was our hotel room, with five people in it, radiating heat under a lethargic slow-spinning fan. The kids were lounging around, fiddling with Lego and watching something about Grandma . . .
Unawatuna beach: Good for families?
Visiting Unawatuna beach Sri Lanka: Our experience Hello friends! Our full time travelling family travelled from Unawatuna beach to Mirissa beach Sri Lanka for the past couple of weeks, and we love it. Our first beach stop in Sri Lanka was Unawatuna beach, where we stayed for just over two weeks. . . .
Turtle hatchery Sri Lanka: DON’T go before you read this!
Should you visit a turtle hatchery in Sri Lanka? Here's what we found out about the turtle hatcheries in Sri Lanka... Hello friends! Today we had an amazing experience swimming with wild turtles off the beautiful coast of Sri Lanka. Turtles are one of those animals that I just adore; to see them . . .
Whale watching Sri Lanka: Everything you need to know
All you need to know about whale watching Sri Lanka Hi friends! Today we celebrated our gorgeous eldest daughter's 7th birthday here in Mirissa, Sri Lanka with a special blue whale watching trip. We knew that it would be a slightly unorthodox birthday, what with being nearly 6000 miles from the UK . . .
Full time travel SUCKS.
Hey everyone! A post about the other side of travel today. There are so many amazing and wonderful things about full time travel- we have had incredible experiences and loads of fun, met amazing people and seen awesome things. But there are also times when everything seems to go wrong, and it . . .
Adventure poems: Full time travel with kids in Haikus
Hey friends! I was messing around with Haikus the other evening, and wrote a little series of adventure poems about our travel experience. I love Haikus- the weird lil' stanzas of five, seven and five syllables- and they really suit the individual moments that make up a longer travel experience, and . . .
Unschooling In Sri Lanka: A Day In The Life
Full time travel with kids: Day to day life Hey friends! I thought I'd write a little post about what our day-to-day nomadic lifestyle looks like as unschoolers. At the moment we are in Sri Lanka, after having spent a couple of months in Bali and a month in Thailand, working with people in a refugee . . .