round the world with my family
join us on our family gap year
A train has to be one of my favourite modes of travel. Perhaps not battling for breathing space on the tube, but relaxing in comfort on a long distance train is hard to beat in my book. Travelling across an international border by train takes things to a higher level. It's quite a few years... Continue Reading →
I’m not sure why you’d want your dinner to be chucked through the air, but a large crowd was baying for more fish flinging. We’d arrived at Pike’s Place Market and stumbled upon the fish counter. Huge specimens of fresh fish were in the process of being hurled, from the front of stage fish monger,... Continue Reading →
Around four months into our new life of not working, we’ve made the decision to come back to reality after six months of travelling. This is shorter than the full year we’d originally planned. Before embarking on a year away, the kids were worried about missing school, missing their friends, and not having enough toys... Continue Reading →
Crossing the Pacific from Australia to the USA, it would have seemed a shame not to drop into Hawaii for a spot of beach time. I’d booked our flight to Hawaii before we left the UK, because you need an exit flight confirmed in order to enter Australia. I don’t understand this rule, since if... Continue Reading →
It seemed somehow fitting to end our tour of Australia in Sydney. In the city that you might assume was the capital, if you hadn’t paid too much attention in geography class. The site of the first British colony in Australia, only 230 years ago. Selected due to its extremely accommodating natural harbour, which now... Continue Reading →
round the world with my family 