07 Mar 2012 2 Comments
in Family Gap Year, Preparations, Travelling Tags: Chile, Cook Islands, Easter Island, EasterIsland, Papeete, Rio de Janeiro, Santiago, South America, Tahiti, Travel
So whilst my lovely workaholic hubby was blogging away earlier tonight, I was getting our 3 children to bed! But oh, he of little faith! Who needs to wait till tomorrow? I successfully booked our first flight using Avios miles and Amex BA companion vouchers – yes, we actually found availability! Thank you BA and thank you Amex! We’re headed to Rio de Janeiro on 11th July 2012! YAY!!! More
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.
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
24 Feb 2012 2 Comments
in Family Gap Year, General, Preparations Tags: Chile, EasterIsland, Pacific Islands, Round-the-world ticket, Santiago
Easter Island
No no no – I spent much of yesterday afternoon looking into how we can fly To Rio using air miles and buy tickets from Santiago onward. Easier said than done. Really disappointed to discover that ‘hopping’ around Pacific Islands is not quite the same as ‘hopping’ around Greek Islands…
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?
20 Feb 2012 Leave a comment
in Family Gap Year, General, Kids Stuff Tags: Zoe
Mum interviewed me about our gap year and this is it!
Zoe, what do you think about our plans to travel the world?
I don’t know! I think it’s going to be fun but I’m going to miss my friends and my teacher Miss Jane
What are you looking forward to most?
Well, staying with different people. And well…. More
17 Feb 2012 9 Comments
in Family Gap Year, Foodie Central, Kids Stuff Tags: Bad Teacher, Ben, Gap year, Homeschooling, Lego
Mum interviewed me about our family gap year and this was it:-
Ben, what do you think about our plans to travel the world?
I think that it’ll be very nice to go to other countries, make new friends and be with my family all the time and not have my parents working all the time.
What are you looking forward to most?
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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
11 Feb 2012 Leave a comment
in Family Gap Year, Preparations, Volunteering Tags: Central America, Ecuador, Gap year, iPhone, Mongolia, Peru, Philippines, Travelling
Eek! The ticker on our countdown has just moved from 5 to 4 months!
After scouting around for families who have written or blogged about their gap year experiences, I’ve been reading Elisa Bernick’s ‘Family Sabbatical Handbook’ and blog from her family’s 18 month adventure living in Mexico
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
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