Overland with Kids

The more we research and learn, the less freaked out we are becoming about the children’s education while on the road. We have a little way to go yet as we are first timers and have never done - largely because this approach is all brand spanking new to us. But already, being out of [...]

Step 1: Our ferry is booked on 1st April when we officially leave the UK
Step 2: We marked the occassion by joining the unemployed today as we both spent our last day at work. We are now jobless but managed to celebrate with a bottle of champagne which just happened to be lurking around in the fridge!
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Money is very tight for us and for those wanting to know how we can afford our big trip - the answer is that we’re not sure that we can. Even though we’ve been planning our adventure for some time - things happen where money gets spent and we try to re-save the amount again, often to [...]

When we started planning this trip 2-3 years ago, the children were relatively young and indifferent about what we did as long as they were with us. It was all largely about freedom, play, learning and routine for them. Last year, they were robust enough for our shakedown trip which was a huge success for them [...]

A large chunk of our time has been spent preparing for the China leg of our trip - to the point of fast becoming the pinnacle of the entire journey in terms of route plan, timings and dependancies.
This is because we need to know exactly what day and month we intend to transit China, for how long [...]

Lee, Helen and their daughter Bev (aka Bevhelee) have been planning for sometime to overland to Australia. Originally from the UK, they’ve lived for 5-years and then sold up in France and are now waiting the good weather to kick in - too cold to travel from this part of Europe right now!  Well, they are roughly [...]

Nick and Vick’s are off to get wed in South Africa (www.langebaan-sunset.com) - flying out on Valentine’s Day from UK - awwwww! Nick swears he didn’t realise the date of the flight (yeah……right!). We met Nick and Vick’s this time last year during a bit of a drunken (understatement!) bash at Ollie and Jen’s  www.jolliefollies.com . Ollie [...]

We originally decided to travel south via Europe to Turkey and onward to Iran, Pakistan and India. The idea being we would then head for Thailand and Malaysia, eventually shipping vehicles and flying ourselves from somewhere within this region. But, when it came to hard core decision-making and  the reality that we will most likely get just one chance [...]

Having returned from our shakedown trip approx almost 4 months ago, much has been happening. As per our last post, mainly with regards to us trying to get our house, lives and all important ‘finances’ in order before we leave next year. We’re still working on all 3 of these and next on the list [...]

Like most, we’ve had a pretty busy year with one thing and another. Earlier in 2009, we met some fellow overlanders who have now become firm friends - some who have since left on their travels and some like us, about to leave during early 2010. We had our first couchsurfers from Spain during Spring. We have [...]