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?
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
03 Feb 2012 Leave a comment
in Family Gap Year, Preparations Tags: Ben, Gap year, Travel
What a great idea, create a blog for our family gap year?!!? It feels right and wrong in so many ways: More
01 Feb 2012 Leave a comment
in Family Gap Year, Preparations Tags: Gap year, Homeschool, Travel
I can’t quite believe that we’ve created a website and blog for our grand adventure plans. What a good feeling, it makes it feel real!
We’ve talked about something like this almost since the children came along but only recently everything seems to have fallen into place and we’ve decided the time is now!! More
Ben
Lara
Martin Clark
Mo
Zoe
The Clark Family's Amazing Adventures 