12 Sep 2012
by Mo
in Adventure, Family Gap Year, Health & Fitness, Photos, Top Experiences
Tags: Brazil, Lara, Manaus, Sami, Zoe
Its our third day in the jungle. Sami has inspected Lara’s foot which is looking a lot better and he says he’ll treat it with jungle medicine. He collects a large seed bobbing in the water which he opens and scrapes the green, wet, highly pungent centre onto her foot. He says this ‘Fava’ (we later discover means ‘bean’) will kill any worm in her foot!!
Jungle Medicine
Sami puts the ‘Fava’ on Lara’s foot
We head off after breakfast and all of us feel just too hot!! The kids moan and no one is too bothered to concentrate on spotting monkey or sloths! More
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10 Aug 2012
by Mo
in Family Gap Year
Tags: Ben, Brazil, Ilha Grande, Lara, Paraty, Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Zoe
We’ve just taken off on a flight out of Rio, on our way to Brasilia, with fabulous views over Sugarloaf and the many bays and islands of the city. It’s exactly 4 weeks since we arrived in Rio and began our family gap year! The time has flown!
Copacabana beach, Sugarloaf to the right of the wing and Christ the Redeemer sits atop the peak on the right of the pic with his head in the clouds!
We didn’t expect to stay in Rio de Janeiro state for a month. To be truthful, (and to the horror of many of our friends) we didn’t have much planned for Brazil at all
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07 Aug 2012
by Martin Clark
in Family Gap Year, Health & Fitness, Kids Stuff, Photos, Videos
Tags: Ben, Bunk bed, Gap year, Lara, Zoe
And the winner is…
Lara
A few weeks into our family gap year she has managed to break:
- A shelf climbing on it
- A toilet seat by jumping off it
- An iPad by dropping it off the bed – luckily just a small crack on the edge of the screen and still usable
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
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24 Jul 2012
by Martin Clark
in Education & Schooling, Family Gap Year
Tags: Ben, Card game, Fermat's Last Theorem, Homeschool, Whist, Zoe
Zoe is all in!
Schools out but rather than 7 weeks we have 60 weeks on our family gap year so a bit of home schooling is going to be needed. So far Mo has made the running and talked to all the teachers at school, grabbed syllabuses, work books and been carrying them! I have volunteered to do Maths as English and languages are not something I am particularly good at, apparently lawyers use more punctuation than I do?
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19 Jul 2012
by Zoe
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
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22 May 2012
by Martin Clark
in Adventure, Family Gap Year
Tags: Ben, Camps, Lara, Zoe
In Urban Jungle Exploring Ben and Zoe built a camp in the garden using whatever they could lay their hands on. But what use is a camp if you can’t sleep in it? How could Dad resist when they asked so nicely and as Mo was out I couldn’t get a second opinion so I said yes until Mum comes home:
Luxury
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14 May 2012
by Lara
in Family Gap Year, Kids Stuff, Preparations
Tags: Lara, Sock, Zoe
Look at me mummy!
Lara and Mummy’s bedtime chat tonight ……
Mummy: You were busy this afternoon…?
Lara: Yes, I started to pack for our trip so I didn’t have to do so much when we go on holiday and travel round the world. I got my rucksack out and
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