Tag: Family travel
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To Grandmother’s House We Go! How to Avoid (or at Least Prepare for) a Holiday Travel Disaster
We have had many close calls trying to travel right up against Christmas. Everything takes longer than expected, trying to find locations in a foreign city can be tricky and all that effort to have the one day be perfect is setting ourselves up for a fall. Luckily the days comes and goes no matter…
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Travel changes a person
At a seminar I recently attended, each new speaker introduced themselves by way of what they called PechaKucha. Since the organization had so many unique words of their own creation, I assumed this was an invented practice. But, it turns out that is not the case. “PechaKucha is a real thing”, one presenter told me. …
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Q&A The Cost Benefit Of Travel
I decided to change things up a bit and ask a bunch of questions of myself. As I sit on a terrace of a little café in Athens, recording all our expenses, it gets me to thinking about costs versus benefits. I wonder if there is a way to reconcile the emotional gains we have…
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Up, down & sideways 🙂 thoughts on long-term travel
After 277 days since leaving our home and saying goodbye to life as we knew it, we are staring down the last 48 days until we move back. We have 2 more countries and 4 cities locked and loaded for the remaining time we will spend abroad. We are trying to pack in as much…
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Family travel, essential alone time
The one thing a person must have is time alone. When we decided to travel together as a family, we didn’t consider how much time each of us would require. Some people can get by on very little and others need a much larger dose on a more regular basis. We did not really discuss…
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Choose chaotic or good routines
In case anyone was wondering, “what is it really like”, for a full-time travelling family? I am here to tell you that much of our life is exactly as it would be back home in Canada, right down to the groceries we buy. Just because we are in a far off place in Europe, enjoying…
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Teenagers are teachers, if we listen instead of lecture
“Coming home with straight A’s is fine, I’ll accept that, but what I’d rather have you do is come home and tell me something amazing that you learned in the spirit of doing something good for someone else, come home and tell me some really dramatic failure that occurred as you were trying to solve…
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I like being first at the gate
For some people being first at the gate means you have arrived super early and will suffer a long wait for your flight. True. But there is something nice about sitting in the quiet area of the airport with no one else around, yet. Possibly, if it is a full flight, the whole waiting area…
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Giving up almost everything I know for sure, to travel the world
Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. -Lao Tzu As we near the end of 2017, here are some of the highlights, the steps we have taken leading us to our Christmas…
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Roll with it, re-group, change of plans – travel demands flexibility
“Mount Agung, in Eastern Bali, spurted clouds of grey and white ash across the Indonesian island and sparked a dangerous flow of debris”, according to the headline news. That’s not good. After leaving Cambodia, we were hoping to spend a blissful month in Bali. The Indonesian Island stop was a key component of our trip,…