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
08 Mar 2012 Leave a comment
in General Tags: Coffee, Generosity, Optimism, Starbucks, Strangers
Yesterday I went to London to an exhibition at ExCel, it took 3 hours to get there with 7 stops. I did not see many smiling faces on my journey and even after rush hour I had to stand half of the way, perhaps the train has suddenly become popular with driving so expensive? Against this backdrop I had two encounters which brightened up my day:
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
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…
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
07 Feb 2012 Leave a comment
in General, Photos Tags: Martin, Photography, South America, Teaching English as a foreign language
This week I’ve been on two training courses – both courtesy of Living Social – one to learn about WordPress (web design & build, on which we’ve designed and built this blog site) and one an SLR photography course.
The WordPress course was my idea to help kickstart my involvement in Martin’s business and I knew whatever I learned would fall way short More
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
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