Family Holiday Harmony or Family Holiday Hell?
Travelling with a Family Tips https://youtu.be/yBERKTBazM8 There are lots of tips for handling holidays with tiny-tots or teenagers, but far less information around for managing harmonious travel with grown up, or almost grown up children. Travelling with a family can be a challenge. One excellent exception to this claim is this blog, flashpacking family.com which is great fun […]
Northcoast 500: Grown up Family – Same Same, but Different
Travelling the North Coast 500 Day 2 of our ‘Northcoast 500 in Scotland trip has started fairly well. We’ve waved off MrytleBank Guest House in FortWilliam. The staff were very friendly, with their ‘wee this’ and ‘wee that’; the view from our room was stunning; and the facilities were excellent (just as well as we […]
Family Car Travel – Let the Playlists Take the Strain
Making Car Journeys Fun The landrover is parked up for the day and now to enjoy Edinburgh! It’s time to dump Tim. Mick picks out Sexy Serena as our new SAT Nav Guide. I object and choose the more straitlaced Jane, she has a direct, no-nonsense, trust me voice. I think she sounds reliable until […]
Are you the favourite child?
Who is the Favourite Child? (Jump to the end to evaluate the type of child you are.) I’m out with Saint Mick, not in Thana City in Bangkok or in Broughton, Lincolnshire. I just texted both of the girls actually, (note the direction of the correspondence-me to them, not them to me), to see how they […]
Expat Local or Local Expat? Same/Same but Different!
Living Abroad or Living at Home Mick took Dad out for a drive to the Humber Bridge in his new Landrover – Lazarus! Back in the day when dad was crane driving he helped build it, in fact legend has it, he built it singlehandedly! I was driving through the village today, on the way […]
City Smoke or Sleepy Village?
Living at Home or Living Abroad Where would you choose to live – Bangkok or Broughton? Beautiful Broughton. Living in Broughton has always been one home. It’s the last week of term at my old school, Bangkok Patana. Although it is overseas I feel like I’m living at home in Thailand, yet to my family in the […]