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
10 Feb 2012 Leave a comment
in Tech & Kit, Tips Tags: Apple, Gap year, iPad
iPad screens might be tough but when they break they really shatter, I should know! More
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
08 Feb 2012 3 Comments
in Adventure, Looking Back, Photos Tags: Angkor Wat, Cambodia, Elephant, Holiday, Photos, Travel, Zoe
In Zoe’s exact words (and Dad just typing).
We went on a fantastic elephant More
07 Feb 2012 Leave a comment
in Education & Schooling, Kids Stuff Tags: Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Cambodia, Daily Mail, Travelling
Obviously we have a lot in common with Brad and Angie, we have a few kids, travel a bit, been to Cambodia and 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
05 Feb 2012 Leave a comment
in Family Gap Year, Photos, Safety Tags: Doh, Nikon, Photography
Mo has just left to go to a photography course with my camera and I am doing what any stereotypical man will do when faced with someone knowing more about a gadget than they do. After over a year and thousands of photos I am actually reading the manual!
I am glad I did. Apparently in California you are advised to More
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