Family Travel
TIPS & ADVICE
Four Ways To Earn Money While You Travel
Finding a way to generate income while you're on the road is the best way to fund your travels. Saving a lump sum is fine, but earning on on the move can give you the freedom to go wherever you want, whenever you want to without the fear of running out of cash. There...
What To Do When Your Airbnb Goes Wrong
We love Airbnb. Over the last 3 years, we’ve stayed in more than 30 apartments, villas and houses using Airbnb. It’s the first place we look when we’re booking accommodation. We’ve had some amazing “homes” all throughout Europe and met some fantastic hosts who we are...
How To Travel Hand Luggage Only With A Family & Avoid Airline Baggage Fees
Whilst we don’t really do massively “budget” travel, I do like to keep our costs down on the boring things. Like air travel. Flying is not a luxury for us, more of a necessary evil and so I like to spend as little as possible on our flights, keeping our cash free for...
Top 10 Flight Hacks – How To Get Cheap Flights & Save £100’s On Your Next Family Trip
When you travel as much as we do, the cost of flights can soon add up. I don’t know about you, but I’d rather be spending more money on tours, activities and adventures than on getting to the countries we’re going to! Throughout our travels I’ve managed to get some...
Our Balkan Train Trip & My Run In With An Inappropriate Drunk
So I knew traveling via public transport would be different... But I didn't realise it would involve a standoff with an inappropriate tramp! I’d come across the Belgrade to Bar Train route a little while ago. It had made it onto our Bucket List due to it’s reputation...
How Do We Afford To Travel With The Kids?
There are two questions we get asked A LOT. The first is usually “But what about school?” shortly followed by “How can you afford to do that?” It’s a great question. Most of the people I talk to say they’d love to do what we do. Take the kids out of school and travel...
We’ve Gone Viral! Do You Know What To Do If You Look Around & Your Child Is Gone?
Unless you've been hiding out under a rock for the last week you've probably seen the story about the day Jake went missing at the beach? It's gone viral with over 1.5 million hits! It was quite simply the most horrifying experience of my life and I still want to cry...
Bucket List Adventure No 34: Riding The Big Zip Line Over The Tara Canyon
So today was the day. I woke up and instantly regretted putting this one on the list. It’s all fun and games when you are just watching it on YouTube but it’s a whole different kettle of fish when it comes down to actually doing it. I don’t know when...
10 Ways Travelling Has Ruined Our Kids Lives
When I tell people we travel the world with our kids they usually react in one of two ways. “Wow that’s amazing, they’re so lucky! I wish I could do that!” Or “What about school? Don’t they miss their friends? They’ll never get a job. You’re going to ruin their...
Our Journey To Croatia – Unfounded Prejudice, Closed Roads & Really Small Suitcases!
So after a quick 4 week visit back to the UK we’re off again… this time to Croatia. The Hand Luggage Challenge The lead up to departure day went pretty much as planned. We packed Bessie up and tucked her into storage the day before our flight and then spent the night...
