Hello lovely friends. Today's post is a bit different to normal. Right back at the beginning of our full time travel journey, before our backpacks were even packed, I wrote some posts about some of the meaning and purpose behind our travel and adventures such as why travel shouldn't be put on some . . .
Sri lanka blog: 5 things about Sri Lanka they DON’T tell you!
Sri Lanka blog: The 5 things we wish we'd known We are currently in Chiang Mai, Thailand, enjoying relative luxury in our hotel with WiFi and complimentary toiletries and hot water and a swimming pool (for £12.50 a night, what a win!). We even have enough beds, albeit one actual bed, one camp bed . . .
Udawalawe Safari: A (Really!) Honest Review
Udawalawe Safari in Sri Lanka with a 2, 5 and 7 year old If you are looking for the bare facts about visiting the Udawalawe safari and don't want to read about our experience (I recommend you do, of course) scroll down to the bottom of this post for the Fact Box. Hey lovely people. We are . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
Nomad travel family: 10 things that give me Mum Guilt
Nomad travel: Another kind of baggage Hello friends! Today was one of those days that was equally weighted to go really well, or absolutely down the bog. We’d decided to carve time out of the diary to head to Mirissa, which was supposed to be our first stop in Sri Lanka (find out about how we got . . .
Flights from hell: Our most horrendous journey yet.
Flights from hell: Our horrendous journey from Thailand to Sri Lanka Flights from hell on Christmas Eve Flights from hell: Hello from Sri Lanka! Our full time travelling family has hopped across the Indian Ocean from Thailand to this little emerald tear-drop just underneath India. We had, . . .
Thailand travel blog: Christmas with refugees on a dump.
Thailand travel blog: Visiting a dump village on the Thai-Burma border Hey lovelies. As you know, we've been staying in a town on the Thai-Burma border for the past couple of weeks. We've been visiting a charity that rescues children from trafficking; as there is a huge population of displaced, . . .