Travel Tips

    As our last days draw near, we've been thinking a lot about what this time away has meant to us. All the things we’ve done, everything we’ve learnt, how we’ve changed and what’s...

In the past 550 days, we’ve taken 30 flights to 11 countries and slept in over 55 different beds. Travel with kids, especially young ones, can be a wonderful, frustrating, miserable and memorable...

A big milestone today…..a whopping 500 days on the road. When we nervously boarded that plane last April I had no idea we’d travel so far and be on the move for so long. There have been highs and...

There is no doubt that travelling light with kids is a tricky business. After almost a year on the road, a tonne of thought and a lot of tweaking we think we've finally cracked it. It wasn't always like...

So here we are a year since we took off for our great, big adventure – was it worth it? Absolutely, resoundingly, 100% yes. We missed too much of the important stuff with Jessica. Trying to do it all, be it all and have it all. Juggling the 9-5 and looming deadlines there simply wasn’t enough hours in the day to be the parents we wanted to be.

For such small people, babies and toddlers need an awful lot of stuff. Travelling with kids can seem incredibly daunting, but luckily there are lots of genius products on the market to make the journey go that...

It’s all been a bit quiet on the blog over the past month. To be honest we’ve been in hibernation, enjoying home comforts and relishing the break in our travels (which doesn’t make for quite such...

As the end of 2014 is almost upon us we’ve been reflecting back on a few of our favourite bits from our family gap year together. As we gathered our list of “best bits” it took me a bit by surprise to...

The prospect of a long haul flight with a toddler can be a terrifying prospect. Having your energetic, unpredictable offspring confined to a small space with 100 pairs of beady eyes watching for a kick, a wail...

Goodness me - Curious Plan is 200 days already! In one way it feels like we set off yesterday and in another like we've been doing this for absolutely ages. It also felt like an appropriate milestone to stop...