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10 Reasons to Take Children to Vang Vieng, Laos
Beautiful Vang Vieng, quieter now after the crack-down on tubing
Beautiful Vang Vieng, Laos is known for tubing and a crazy backpacker party scene. Not many people would associate it with family travel and it hasn’t always had the best reputation. We’ve spent four weeks in Vang Vieng now, we all lov
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The First Things We'll Do in London
London’s Natural History Museum
We touchdown in London in early December. There are so many things we’ve missed that we can’t wait to do, see or taste again. This won’t be one of those posts about tourist attractions, visit Buck House, watch The Changing of The Guard, go to the British Museum. The
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Life is Never Easy. Some Real Life Family Travel.
I could tell you how we got from Laos to Bangkok easily on the fabulous sleeper train and how we’re now safely installed in a hotel in Bangkok, but that would be LIES! And I’m not going to lie to you, so here’s all the icky, grumpy, boring bits of real life family travel from the last 24 hours.
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Getting to Ko Samui from Bangkok and a Scam to Avoid.
You have plenty of options for getting from Bangkok to Koh Samui in the far south west of the country. Thailand is an incredibly easy country to travel around, thanks to its long established tourism industry, you’ll certainly be able to find a way of getting to Koh Samui from Bangkok that suits you
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The Ko Phangan Monkeys. Photo Post.
We really have stumbled on a little slice of paradise on Ko Phangan.
The beach is perfect. Clear, safe waters and an aquarium of sea life for us to explore. The kids are happy playing with new friends and we have a simple but lovely beachside bungalow to call home.
We had a bit of excitement this m
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I knew hiring a moped on Ko Phangan was a bad idea...
Years ago, in Vietnam, when we were on our first RTW, I had a go at driving the moped we’d hired.
I got my twisting, pulling and pushing mixed up and mounted the pavement extremely inelegantly scattering the picnicking Vietnamese family who were quietly enjoying their lunch.
I hadn’t been near a m
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Travel Makes You Thinner!
Travel makes you wise, we all know that, and wisdom makes you sexier and cooler, but on a totally shallow level, it also makes you thinner, or it can. It works for me.
You may have noticed that we love our food here at World Travel Family, it’s a big part of travel for us. I’m married to a chef aft
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Our Four Month Anniversary, Disasters and a Lesson in Unplanned Travel.
It’s unplanned travel, but we’re really enjoying sunsets on Haad Salad, Ko Phangan.
Four months ago this week I wrote about the things I’d miss as we left Port Douglas to explore the world. Just the three of us, Chef caught up with us later. I haven’t missed home at all, we’re having a brilliant adv
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Why Visit Goa. ( and why we'll be going back!)
Chef looking the part in Goa. Anjuna beach, in front of part of Anjuna Market. 2001. Strange outfits are not compulsory if you visit Goa.
I’ve posted before about how much I love India, but Goa was my first love. I went on a cheap package holiday back in 1998 and returned several times before we got
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Medical Dramas on Ko Phangan and Surgery on Ko Samui
This morning, 4 months into our trip, my husband is having emergency hernia repair surgery on Ko Samui.
I’ve always said medical care is great in Thailand, but I wasn’t expecting to test it out!
My fit, healthy, Iron Man husband was absolutely fine on Saturday afternoon. He was playing around with
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Anxiety, Palpitations, Perimenopause and MSG.
If you read my last post about Chef’s hospitalisation, you’ll know that I wasn’t feeling too good. I’d even asked at the pharmacy for Xanax, I felt that bad.
I was experiencing palpitations, shortness of breath ( probably through anxiety), headaches, hot flushes and a few other things that I didn’t
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Thai Food for Beginners
These days most people have eaten Thai food in a restaurant at least once, so maybe a guide to Thai food for beginners is a little redundant. All the same, chef and I thought we’d put together a beginner’s guide to Thai food to help you out if Asian travel is new to you. Maybe you’re taking kids to
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Bored Kids, Tablets and Getting From Ko Phangan to Malaysia
We’ve been researching getting from Ko Phangan to Malaysia for a few days now.
That’s when we’re not sitting in the shade looking at the turquoise waters of Haad Salad beach, eating fantastic Thai food, occasionally swimming, snorkelling or kayaking and gazing at sunsets.
Sounds good doesn’t it?
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How do you Start an Adventure?
We need a new adventure, we’re fed up with being tied to work and the daily grind. We want to experience other cultures, give the kids amazing learning opportunities and be together as a family more. Dad is missing out!
The gladdest moment in human life, methinks, is a departure into unkno
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Homeschooling, Bin the Schedules!
Due to our current immobility after my husband’s surgery, I have spent the last two weeks officially covering and completing year 2 maths with my year 1 child.
Two weeks, for a whole school year, that’s it!
We’ve done up to an hour a day, most days, at whatever time has suited us.
Sometimes we’ve d
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Cheap Family Accommodation Laos
Cheap family accommodation is one of my favourite internet search terms, I use it a lot.
Family travel in Laos isn’t the easiest, there are a lot of long bus rides and narrow mountain roads, but it brings huge rewards. We were in Laos for 6 weeks during the wet season ( July-Sept) this year, our se
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Staying on Haad Salad, Ko Phangan. Dangers and Annoyances.
We have absolutely loved staying on Haad Salad, Ko Phangan for the last 6 weeks. It’s a beautiful beach paradise with calm, clear waters that my children can safely swim in and kayak on. We found good, cheap family accommodation and enjoyed good Thai food and rainbow sunsets .
But there are a few da
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From Flash to Trash. Will Kids Adjust to a Lower Standard of Accommodation?
Chef and I have always enjoyed budget travel. We’ve always wanted to get maximum travel for our dollar and to us, fancy hotels aren’t (usually) part of that.We make exceptions for the odd splurge but usually we travel to see the world and to learn from our experiences. We need somewhere to sleep an
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Reader Question: What Do We Do All Day? Haad Salad, Ko Phangan
One of our readers wrote:
I’d love to simply hear more about your day-to-day lives. What do your kids do all day? How does one spend six weeks in a remote place….I honestly have no idea. Don’t you (and the kids) run out of things to do? I just can’t fathom how you pass each day! Six weeks spent in
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So How Exactly is a Cruise Budget Travel?
We love our food! This is one of Chef’s dishes. We’re really looking forward to eating our way across the Atlantic.
We never expected to be going on a cruise!
When we set out on this trip, our plan was to spend a few years in South East Asia and the Indian Subcontinent. We worked out, based on the a
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