Hey Reader, After a few months of traveling like this, one thing has become pretty clear. There isn’t one big change that makes everything easier. It’s not: finding the perfect place booking everything at the right time or having some kind of ideal plan It’s smaller things. How the day flows.How much you try to fit in.Whether things feel rushed… or not. We’ve had days in amazing places that just didn’t land. And other days, somewhere simple, that felt exactly right. That difference started to...
22 days ago • 1 min read
Hey Reader, When we first started traveling, we packed like we were going on a short holiday. You know the thinking. Better to have too much than not enough.Just in case.We might need it. So we brought more than we needed. Extra clothes.Extra “options.”Things that felt useful at the time. And for the first few days, it didn’t seem like a problem. Then reality kicked in. Moving between places.Packing and unpacking constantly.Trying to keep track of everything. And then the extra costs started...
25 days ago • 1 min read
Hey Reader, We used to just turn up to places and figure it out when we got there. Sometimes it worked. Other times… it didn’t. Standing in line with kids is one of those things that feels fine for the first few minutes. Then it drags. Everyone gets restless.You’re not really enjoying anything.And you start wondering if it was even worth it. We had a few days like that early on. Nothing major went wrong, just time slipping away in places we didn’t expect. Queues. Waiting around.Moving slower...
29 days ago • 1 min read
Hey Reader, Car rentals always seem straightforward when you’re booking them. Pick the dates.Choose the car.Price looks reasonable. Done. That’s what we thought at the start. But one booking almost caught us out. Everything looked fine upfront. Until we got closer to the actual pickup and started looking properly at what was included… and what wasn’t. Insurance wasn’t as clear as it seemed.Extra fees started appearing (Double the amount of the car cost)And suddenly the “cheap” option didn’t...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Hey Reader, One thing we nearly didn’t bother with before this trip was travel insurance. It felt like one of those “we’ll probably be fine” things… especially since we weren’t doing anything extreme. But once we actually started traveling with the kids, it started to feel a bit different. Delays, getting sick, plans changing—it doesn’t take much for things to get complicated quickly. So we ended up looking into it properly and comparing a few options. I wrote up what we found (and what we...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Hey Reader, The first time we landed somewhere new, we didn’t think much about data. Phones turned on.Signal came through.Everything just worked. So we carried on using it like normal. Maps. Messages. A bit of browsing here and there. Nothing excessive. Then a few days later, we checked the bill. And that’s when it hit us. It wasn’t one big charge. Just lots of small ones adding up in the background. The kind you don’t really notice until it’s too late. After that, we kept it simple. We...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Hey Reader, We used to think there was a “right” day to book flights. You hear it all the time. Tuesday. Late at night. Clear your cookies. All those little rules that are supposed to save you money. And to be honest, we followed them. Sometimes it felt like it worked. Other times… not really. Prices would still jump around. Or we’d wait for the “right time” and end up paying more anyway. After a while, it started to feel less like a strategy and more like guessing. So before booking one of...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Hey Reader, We didn’t have big expectations for Uvita when we first arrived. It was more of a stop on the way somewhere else. A few days. Maybe a week. That was the plan. But pretty quickly, it turned into one of those places that just… works. Not in an obvious way. There isn’t loads going on. It’s not packed with attractions. And it doesn’t feel like somewhere you “need” to see. But day-to-day, it felt easy. The kind of place where: you’re not constantly planning you don’t feel rushed to do...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Hey Reader, One thing we thought would be easier when travelling through South America with kids… was learning Spanish. You hear it all the time. “Just being here, you’ll pick it up.” And to some extent, that’s true. But what we didn’t expect was how inconsistent it feels day-to-day. Some days you’re using it constantly. Other days, you fall back into English without really noticing. And progress feels… slow. We looked at a few different ways to improve it properly. Apps. Tutors. Courses....
about 2 months ago • 1 min read