03 Aug 2014 6 Comments
in Adventure, Family Gap Year, Looking Back, Travelling Tags: going home
753 days into our trip. One week to go before we land back at London Heathrow!
Can’t quite get it all clear in my head!
I lay awake on our last overnight train again reflecting on it all, was it all real?
Ending our Napo River adventure – September 2012
How far we’ve come, the highs the lows, how it will feel after we’re home? More
11 Jul 2014 13 Comments
in Adventure, Education & Schooling, Family Gap Year, General, Looking Back, Photos, Top Experiences Tags: Asia, Australia, Bali, Cambodia, China, going home, India, Japan, New Zealand, Pacific Ocean, second gap year, South East Asia, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Tonga, Vanuatu, Vietnam
11th July 2014. We’ve been two years on the road – 104 weeks, or 730 days – where has it gone?!!
Celebrating two years on the road with a ‘cake’ in the Barbie Cafe and a supper at Flavours restaurant, Taipei
And now we’re embarking on Year 3 …. But only for a month, then we’ll be home, which we all have mixed feelings about! Can’t wait to see all our friends and family, enjoy some home comforts and we’re pretty happy about enjoying (hopefully) a pleasant British summertime. More
23 Mar 2014 10 Comments
in Adventure, Family Gap Year, Top Experiences, Travelling Tags: hikkaduwa, Kandy, Kandy Guest House, mirissa, Sri lanka, Uduwalawa
We hadn’t thought to include Sri Lanka in our plans, but when we realised it was a good place to apply for Indian visas and we could take a cheap flight from Kuala Lumpur and head on to Southern India, whilst hopefully meeting with our friends from Penang who had put us up for 10 days in December. We booked our flight and then discovered our Bali friends were on the same flight too!
Sri Lanka!
The early morning wake up, the sad but quick goodbyes with Oma, and our departure from KL is thankfully appeased by the excitement of seeing the Pearces at the airport and trading seats to be with friends on the plane.
23 Mar 2014 4 Comments
in Adventure, Family Gap Year, Top Experiences, Videos Tags: Borneo, Borneo Sun Bear Conservation Centre, Kota Kinabalu, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Mari Mari Cultural Village, Nak Hotel, Orang-utan, Orangutan, Petronas Towers, Rasa Ria Orangutan Sanctuary, Sabah, Sandakan, Sepilok
After a second month-long stay in Bali we are all too soon saying goodbye to friends again, and flying off, this time, to Sabah, the more easterly state of Malaysian Borneo for 6 days. This was a fairly last minute plan, partly because the flights were ridiculously cheap and partly to see if Borneo lives up to the exotic jungle destination it’s cracked up to be!
Adventures on the Kinabantangan river, Sabah
numbers. Thankfully recent research shows that number were not quite so low as estimated at that time but nonetheless, they remain critically endangered and their numbers continue to be reduced.
21 Mar 2014 7 Comments
in Adventure, Family Gap Year, Top Experiences Tags: Bukit Lawang, Grand Aston City Hall, Indonesia, Medan, Orangutan, Sumtra, Tangkahan
You’ve maybe seen the highlights of our busy December travels through Sumatra, Malaysia, Singapore and back to Bali in our Christmas update….. but these places and adventures deserve their own telling and photos… I’ve been working on a series of catch up blogs for our travels around Asia. This is the first.
Posing with our elephant friends after a morning of scrubbing and showering each other!
When I started compiling this series of catch up posts, we’d just hit our 18 month travelling milestone and two days later we were taking our 46th flight and arriving in our 23rd country – India! But that’s a few posts further down the line!
Clearly we’re not winning any awards for our light carbon footprint over the last 3 months!
11 Jul 2013 14 Comments
in Adventure, Family Gap Year, Looking Back Tags: agroventures, auckland, Cook Island, Kia Ora, New Zealand, Pacific Ocean, Shweeb, Southern Hemisphere, stardome, waitangi
Kia Ora! Hello, Greetings!
A year ago today we flew out of London, Heathrow on our way to Rio to begin our family gap year and round the world adventure! We’ve travelled for 365 days! We’re half way there, enjoying time in New Zealand.
Ready to fly – at Heathrow a year ago and in New Zealand today!
27 Jun 2013 4 Comments
in Adventure, Family Gap Year, Kids Stuff, Videos Tags: Argentina, Selknam people, The end of the world, Tierra del Fuego, Tierra del Fuego National Park, Yamana people
In Ushauia – we found out all about the Yamana people and the Selknam people. They lived at the bottom of the world in Tierra del Fuego in South America. The Selknam lived inland and hunted guanaco. The Yamana lived along the coast.
The Yamana with their canoe – where they kept a fire burning all the time and didn’t wear clothes! At the Maritime Museum, Ushuaia. This canoe was made trying to copy the traditional methods before they are forgotten and lost!
The Yamana lived further south than any other people in the world and although it was cold they didn’t wear clothes but always had a fire burning even in their canoes and put animal grease on their skin to help stay warm. More
24 May 2013 6 Comments
in Adventure, Family Gap Year, Kids Stuff, Top Experiences Tags: Argentina, Brazil, iguacu falls, iguazu, iguazu falls, Itaipu dam, Itaipu zoo, Paraguay
We were at Iguazu for a few days. We stayed in Argentina and just across the river Iguazu were Brazil and Paraguay. It was wet and jungly rainforest which we hadn’t seen for a while after being in the Andes. Each day we were in a different country. We crossed the borders about 10 times in a week! Here are some of my highlights and favourite pictures and wildlife!
You can visit the Falls in Brazil and Argentina. We started in Brazil. This was pretty much my first view of the falls. It looked amazing but even more amazing when we got on the boat a few days later. We could see the boats down in the river going under the falls!
Me at Iguazu!
22 May 2013 3 Comments
in Adventure, Family Gap Year, Foodie Central, Photos, Top Experiences, Travelling Tags: Argentina, Brazil, Ciudad del Este, iguacu falls, iguassu, iguazu falls, Itaipu dam, Itaipu zoo, Paraguay, puerto iguazu
Iguazu Falls – just a fraction of the Falls which includes 275 individual cascades amidst multiple islands.
Iguassu (or Iguazu, or Iguacu Falls) is so incredible it deserves its 3 spellings, or more, if you include versions with or without accents. Then there’s Puerto Iguazu in Argentina and Foz do Iguacu just across the border in Brazil, the towns and airports in the midst of the rainforest, stopping off points for the Falls.
About to get under the Iguazu falls!
10 May 2013 1 Comment
in Adventure, Family Gap Year Tags: Calama, Chile, San Pedro de Atacama
We survived our 2 nights in Calama or ’Calamity’ as our friends named it after losing an iPhone. We actually stayed in the same apartment but were super careful not to leave anything. It seems that forgetting an item in a hotel room is like leaving a tip for the cleaners. Only a few days ago Mo left a fleece and socks in Hotel Magia in Uyuni, we went back to ask and were told to return in an hour. Only later we discovered the fleece had several ‘personal’ items in the pockets as it had no doubt been keeping someone else warm! Still, good outcome as we’d had a dispute about the already expensive bill which they’d tried to double! The socks were ’thrown away’, we returned the favour with their ‘pawn’ on a USB drive. (post script – missing socks found in Mo’s dirty washing bag!).
For a booming mining town the Calama centre is pretty strange. More
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