What Does A Travelling Single Mum Look Like?
Travelling as a single parent, there generally aren’t that many photos of you. The pic above is one of few with me and Z together,...
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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”...
Travels with a Ten Year Old
Today is Take Your Child To Work Day, so a bunch of lovely folk who travel with a wildly varying selection of spawn — from...
F*ck It. I’m A Tourist.
Tourist or traveller? It’s a question as old as the first ever travel books. But I don’t like the word “traveller”. It smells of one-upmanship,...
7 Practical Things To Do Before You Start Longterm Travel
1: Sort Out Banking Check the expiry dates on all your cards and apply for new ones if required. Ensure you have internet banking enabled...
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...
All Dollars Are Not Created Equal
When it comes to travel money, there’s a general assumption that good old US greenbacks will work almost anywhere in the world, even beyond the...
Temple Monkeys: The Devil’s Work
To anyone with an evil sense of humour, hanging out at a temple with monkeys is a guaranteed source of entertainment. Gasp as a tourist...
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,...
The Sunday Six: Europe’s Furthest Frontiers
1: The Canary Islands The Canaries? They’re in Spain, right? Well, technically, yes. These volcanic outcrops, laden with palm trees and beaches, sit off the...