My name’s Martin and I’m a workaholic.
Being busy is like a drug
06 Mar 2012 Leave a comment
in Family Gap Year, Preparations, Tech & Kit Tags: Blackberry, iPhone, Martin
My name’s Martin and I’m a workaholic.
The Best Travel Credit Cards
03 Mar 2012 Leave a comment
in Family Gap Year, Preparations, Tips, Travelling Tags: American Express, Amex, Credit card, Debit card, MasterCard, Travel, Visa
Best Travel Credit Cards
If you go on holiday and spend £1000 on your credit card any idea how much you pay in fees? I hadn’t a clue, hardly top of my list of priorities if you are going away for a few days. So off to Google and Martin Lewis’ Money Saving Expert who do a nice comparison. Ouch… More
Life is not a Dress Rehearsal
02 Mar 2012 Leave a comment
in General
A friend died yesterday of cancer. He was in his forties and leaves a young family behind. I cannot begin to imagine what they have been through and our thoughts are with them.
Whilst we feel so very sad we should celebrate his life and what he gave to others.
Carpe diem
Should we buy a Round The World Ticket?
22 Feb 2012 2 Comments
in Family Gap Year, Preparations, Tips, Travelling Tags: New Zealand, Pacific, Pacific Ocean, Round-the-world ticket, Santiago, South America, Travelling
Cheaper than a 747
A round the world ticket sounds like a great idea and is what every travel agent seems to suggest so are we sold on the idea?
Pros: More
The Adventure Travel Show, how useful for a Family Gap Year?
12 Feb 2012 Leave a comment
in Family Gap Year, Kids Stuff, Preparations, Volunteering Tags: AdventureTravel, Charley Boorman, Mongol Rally, Mongolia, Morris Oxford, Nick Hewer, South America, Travel
With Oma baby sitting and Mo and I nursing mild hangovers we jumped on a train up to Olympia to visit the Adventure Travel Show a couple of weekends ago to do some research for our family gap year. Not sure what to expect but as usual nothing ventured, nothing gained.
I recognised quite a few of the speakers but the closest we got to any talks was standing next to Charley Boorman in the coffee area which was a shame as I would have found them pretty interesting (and Mo would have worried that I was after a bit too much adventure!). Nick Hewer of Apprentice fame was giving a talk More
Ipad dropped from space!
10 Feb 2012 Leave a comment
in Tech & Kit, Tips Tags: Apple, Gap year, iPad
iPad screens might be tough but when they break they really shatter, I should know! More
We are on Twitter and other milestones!
08 Feb 2012 Leave a comment
in Education & Schooling, Family Gap Year, Kids Stuff, Tech & Kit Tags: Twitter, Zoe
We joined Twitter a few days ago and just noticed that our tweets are showing up on Google which reminded me that we should really tell the world that you can read about us in 140 characters. @MMBZL is our tag in case you are an avid More
Brad Pitt on travel parenting
07 Feb 2012 Leave a comment
in Education & Schooling, Kids Stuff Tags: Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Cambodia, Daily Mail, Travelling
Obviously we have a lot in common with Brad and Angie, we have a few kids, travel a bit, been to Cambodia and More
Daddy, what about Christmas presents?
06 Feb 2012 Leave a comment
in Family Gap Year, General, Kids Stuff Tags: Christmas, Gap year, Lego, Santa Claus, Travel
Christmas in the Clark household is a bit like a big pass the parcel game, lots of unwrapping and a brief moment of delight at getting something (or a disappointed oh?).
Given that Ben and Zoe were back to playing with their (old) Lego by the Queen’s speech and making a spy mission kit out of the cardboard boxes that the presents came in it crossed our minds, not for the first time, that perhaps our kids are a bit spoiled. More
Don’t poke yourself in the eye
05 Feb 2012 Leave a comment
in Family Gap Year, Photos, Safety Tags: Doh, Nikon, Photography
Mo has just left to go to a photography course with my camera and I am doing what any stereotypical man will do when faced with someone knowing more about a gadget than they do. After over a year and thousands of photos I am actually reading the manual!
I am glad I did. Apparently in California you are advised to More
The Clark Family's Amazing Adventures 