We got Wise cards for our travels as it offers some of the best rates when you’re overseas. What we didn’t know about was the cute animations it (sometimes) does when you pay on your phone. I haven’t figured out why it does them some times and not others – it’s a bit of a… Read More Animations
One of the main questions that we get is “Where have you been?”, quickly followed by “Where are you going next?”. It’s not hard to answer but it is seemingly illogical as we are often doubling back on ourselves. We plan to create a video with a map of where we’ve been and it would… Read More Logical… NOT
And just like that it’s done. Work is over for nine and a half months*. One week to pack up our lives and put what we need into our backpacks to live for three quarters of a year. It’s been a long time coming, and I know some were skeptical, but I knew it would… Read More Work is done!
It’s now less than two months before we fly out and reality is starting to set in! Renting out the house, the amount of stuff we need to pack up 😱 and only six more weeks of work 🎉 I am on a HUUUGE clear out and my local Buy Nothing group* is getting flooded.… Read More It’s getting real!
We have approval from our schools & workplaces for a shortened gap three-quarters of a year and have been in planning mode!! We fly out April 6 to Japan (4 weeks), then head to Java (3-4 weeks) and then into Europe & the UK (4 months) then back east to South East Asia and hoping… Read More Back on the wagon!
Of course you need a playlist so here it is: “Highly recommended for anyone sick of Christmas tunes” – M
Have you ever been really prepared for something, working every day towards it, running head long at it only to hit a brick wall and everything changes?Yeah well, that’s what “paws” felt like to us. The day we got the call from one of the kid’s schools was the same day we had the appointment… Read More Readjusting
We have delayed our gap year until 2025 due to one school refusing to hold a spot and plus my work was not happy about it either. We will still have a trip to India in January though (& hopefully China (Harbin for the snow & ice festival) if M can navigate their visa system… Read More Paws!
So many possibilities … so little time to look into everything! We have a rough plan for the first few weeks, but also trying to keep it a bit loosey goosey too, so that we can see what travel pace we can all handle. The first layover (8 hours overnight in Singapore airport) could be… Read More Planning mode
We have been travelers for a while and lived in England for two years, Scotland for four and spent another year traveling in Europe, South America and Asia. Kids and COVID obviously put a spanner in things but we were keen to get back to it. While in Scotland, one of the very few Aussies… Read More You’re doing what?
Country Hoppers 