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The Home of Center Parcs Alongside some of their great contributions to the World, such as the Cruyff turn and Gin ("Dutch Courage"), the Dutch have somehow also found time to invent Center Parcs. For the uninitiated, Center Parcs is a holiday camp aimed at families. It is based around the concept that while it may be... Continue Reading →
Selling our house, so that we can take a year away to travel round the world, was just one item on the pre-departure checklist, alongside more mundane activities such as organising vaccinations and buying some suitable rucksacks. The house selling process, however, is still ongoing and the reality is dawning that we will not achieve... Continue Reading →
Life feels relatively normal at the moment. On the surface there isn't much to show that we are slowly approaching a major change. We are still quietly planning our family gap-year, but our departure date of July 2016 feels an incredibly long way off. I suspect, however, that we will look back in nine months... Continue Reading →
We are settling back into home life after our summer holidays, but we have reached a major milestone this week, with Alexandra's first day of school. This has been an eagerly awaited day for Alexandra, involving several short visits to school earlier this year and many attempts at wearing her new school uniform around the house.... Continue Reading →
round the world with my family 