07 Aug 2012 5 Comments
in Family Gap Year, Health & Fitness, Kids Stuff, Photos, Videos Tags: Ben, Bunk bed, Gap year, Lara, Zoe
And the winner is…
A few weeks into our family gap year she has managed to break:
Dad managed to fix everything apart from the iPad with a spoon and swiss army knife.
Metal Tree Climbing
She has also had a few scrapes: More
06 Aug 2012 2 Comments
in Adventure, Education & Schooling, Family Gap Year, Kids Stuff, Photos, Top Experiences Tags: Ilha Grande, Lopes Mendes
This is me, Daddy and Ben ready to go on an adventure to Lopes Mendes beach. We took a rucksack because we need water, long trousers and mossie spray too.
Ready to go
19 Jul 2012 2 Comments
in Family Gap Year, Kids Stuff, Photos Tags: Rio de Janeiro, Zoe
This is the first part of our adventure. Being at the airport. The plane journey was 11 hours and 5 minutes, it felt like a whole day actually.
I love my rucksack!
We can see Christ Redeemer from our apartment. More
18 Jul 2012 3 Comments
in Family Gap Year, Foodie Central, Photos, Safety, Tips Tags: Christ the Redeemer (statue), Corcovado, James Bond, Rio de Janeiro, SugarLoaf
Ipanema beach, not a place to get a passer by to take your photo!
A lie in today, I woke at 7am, not the 5-6am we have been used to as our bodies adjust to the 4 hour time difference. Only Zoe is up as well, busy colouring so it is lovely and quiet, perfect to reflect on our first week before we leave the excellent WiFi in our apartment.
With kids everything takes longer and we have been concious not to rush between tourist sights and cram too much in. The thought crosses my mind that after our hectic lives in the UK we are ‘slow cooking’ our travels to extract maximum flavour, but that is probably a tummy rumbling hint that I need to go to the supermarket and buy fresh bread for breakfast.
I am going to cover ‘safety’ in another post but so far we have taken plenty of sensible precautions and not had any problems, even the taxi’s have their meters turned on, if not their headlights (it saves fuel!?!!). More
16 Jul 2012 11 Comments
in Family Gap Year, Photos, Travelling Tags: Ipanema, Jardim Botânico, Leblon, Rio de Janeiro, Southern Hemisphere
Day 6 in Rio and our last night in our apartment and my first blog post in Brazil. When I was on the plane I took a few pictures like this one when we were just on the equator. Did you know the water in the Southern Hemisphere goes down the plug hole clockwise? Which way does it go at the equator? Please put your answers in the comments.
Crossing the Equator
Guess what I am drinking on Ipanema beach? More
14 Jul 2012 5 Comments
in Family Gap Year, Kids Stuff, Photos Tags: Rio de Janeiro, Zoe
My heart is with you
21 Jun 2012 3 Comments
in Family Gap Year, Photos Tags: EasterIsland, Gap year, Moai, South America
As we are just about to buy our tickets to fly out of South America via Easter Island this is pretty topical. There are a 1000 of these ‘moai’ on Easter Island, up to 30ft tall and weighing more than a few tonnes. Scientists now think they, as the Easter islanders believed, actually walked into position.
So that’s how it’s done?
There is more info and photos on the Daily Mail and National Geographic. We might take a couple of pics when we are there as well if we can avoid the 50,000 other tourists that visit each year!
20 Jun 2012 2 Comments
in Family Gap Year, Kids Stuff, Photos, Safety, Tech & Kit, Travelling Tags: Lara
Appropriately I bought a compact travel camera at Amazon which arrived today. Here is a quick test pic, full review to come once I have used it for a bit.
Smile, Dad’s got a new camera
Interestingly I resized the photo and saved it as a new file and it kept the EXIF data. Bit geeky but bear with me. More
17 May 2012 3 Comments
in Adventure, Family Gap Year, Photos Tags: Camps, Climbing, Education, Gap year, Urban Jungle
Who needs a family gap year for a bit of adventure when you can explore the Urban Jungle? Mum was out so the mice could play.
As usual they waved goodbye as Mum drove off to her girlie night out and I thought they would soon be back inside. Not hearing anything for a few minutes I glanced out of the window…
Spot the children? (there are 3)
Luckily Lara is quite the climber
20 Apr 2012 1 Comment
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!
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