Family Gap Year | The Clark Family's Amazing Adventures

Lara is packed already!!

14 May 2012 1 Comment

by Lara in Family Gap Year, Kids Stuff, Preparations Tags: Lara, Sock, Zoe

Look at me mummy!

Lara and Mummy’s bedtime chat tonight ……

Mummy: You were busy this afternoon…?

Lara: Yes, I started to pack for our trip so I didn’t have to do so much when we go on holiday and travel round the world. I got my rucksack out and

Does anyone like needles?

13 May 2012 Leave a comment

by Martin Clark in Family Gap Year, Health & Fitness, Preparations, Safety Tags: Ben, Calpol, Rabies, Vaccinations, Yellow fever

Martin is a Guinea Pig

Two months to go and we are ticking off some of the must do things on the list for our family gap year. Top was getting the right vaccinations so we stay healthy and it turns out that even though we already make pretty good pin cushions we need a few more.

Maybe we were ‘sold’ but the description of getting rabies

Birthday Countdown

30 Apr 2012 1 Comment

by Zoe in Family Gap Year, Kids Stuff Tags: Ben, iPhone, Rio de Janeiro, South America, Travelling, Zoe

I went out for a treat tonight with my Mum to Browns restaurant in Brighton and we decided to do a blog post while we waited for my ice cream to arrive. More

Follow the Rainbow

21 Apr 2012 1 Comment

by Martin Clark in Family Gap Year, Top Experiences Tags: Rainbow

It rained yesterday afternoon, it was also sunny, so weather confused. Unusual for England I know. I thought they might like to see the rainbow and a shout of ‘Who’s going to be first to see?’ quickly got everyone to the top of the house.

I can only remember Lara going ‘Wow!’ but the others were also enthralled in a fleeting moment of beauty.

May we see many more rainbows.

Double Rainbow (Sponsored by Pride in Brighton)

Homeless?

20 Apr 2012 1 Comment

by Martin Clark in Adventure, Family Gap Year, Photos, Preparations Tags: Ben, Family Gap Year, homeless, renting

Making fire in the woods for lunch

Reality check. Just had 2 viewings on our house and one seems keen. Brilliant! Oh, they want to move in a month before we go? It would certainly make our preparations move on more quickly.

Maybe we could live in the woods? Make fire by rubbing two sticks together?

We would be foolish to say no and would just have to manage, we could go away at half term and then be creative for the 4 weeks until the end of the summer term and we fly.

Ben is happy with his new bedroom

Better start packing and hopefully throwing away all the clutter that accumulates when you have enough space to keep it.

I have been super busy with work but expect more blog posts as we count down to our family gap year!

An interview with Lara

09 Apr 2012 5 Comments

by Lara in Education & Schooling, Family Gap Year, Kids Stuff, Travelling

It was tricky to interview Lara for a blog post! Perhaps Mum needs to refine her interview technique but anyway, this was our first effort!!

Lara, what do you think about our plans to travel the world?

Good!

What are you looking forward to most?

Brighton!

Well, we won’t be going to Brighton when we go traveling because we’ll be going further away!

Oh!! Well then, you choose for me Mummy!

You see, Brighton is near where we live now but when we go on our travels we’ll go to other countries

But mummy – this is England!

Ok, what do you think you might miss?

My toys and lots of my teddies and my friends….

Mummy!! We need to take some party bags on holiday … we have to! Because it’s gonna be my birthday!

Do you think you’ll want to come home again after our trip?

Mmmm

What do you think about Mummy and Daddy being your teachers? Its called ‘home school’ – or maybe ‘road school’?

Good…

Actually, no! I don’t want to go on holiday, just stay at my school!

95 days and counting…

07 Apr 2012 1 Comment

by Mo in Family Gap Year, Health & Fitness, Preparations, Travelling

The countdown to departure day (d-day) on my iPhone is now under 100! 95 days today, to be precise.

We now have a to let sign outside our house and we’ve started the long process of decluttering! This is a big deal for us, More

Gap Year Bank Accounts – Don’t be Ripped Off

14 Mar 2012 Leave a comment

by Martin Clark in Family Gap Year, Preparations, Tips Tags: ATM, Bank account, Bank charge, Cash, Travel

Norwich and Peterborough Building Society

Commission free ATM Cash

‘People get divorced more often than they change bank’ is no longer true but I am sure many people (like me) have had the same bank account for 30+ years. There is a lot of inertia to overcome in moving and in a competitive market surely all their charges are much of a muchness? Calculator time and I was shocked!

Running Away!

10 Mar 2012 1 Comment

by Mo in Family Gap Year, Health & Fitness Tags: Couch to 5K, Gap year, Nepal

When I backpacked around the world in 1992 I returned to the UK 12 months later a stone or two heavier than when I departed! I think when I arrived in Australia after 5 months in SE Asia living on healthy rice & veg, the joy of being able to buy biscuits and chocolate somewhat got the better of me!

I’d like to avoid that on our family adventure!