Journal from 40,000 feet I’m not going to sugar coat it. Getting here has been painful. It has broken me mentally, emotionally and even physically. Layer upon layer of stress, week after week after week. And suddenly, here I am sitting on the plane – and I’m not quite sure how I have done it….
“Ok then, do it…look into it, see where it goes.” After all these years together, Rhino really should have known that these words, uttered one night whilst watching a documentary about Australia, and giving me the green light to fully commit to our NZ move, would only have lit that spark within. Allowed me to…
Where do I possibly start? Almost 30 years ago I came to YGP for a year 6 transition day and I still remember now what happened at the end of the day. The last lesson of the day was French in P3, with Miss Anne. She taught me how to say hello, say my name…
This week I’m turning 40. Even writing that now it feels wrong. How is it possible that the 80’s were 40 years ago? Walkmans and leg warmers and Kylie, of course. Rewind 40 years before I was born and the world was in the midst of World War Two. Crazy to think that the expanse…
I used to belong to the school of thought that travelling with kids for Christmas Day was sacrilege. Mortel sin. A big fat NO GO area. That children should be home, tucked into their beds, while visions of sugarplums dance in their heads…. Surrounded by their own familiar things and with all their family to…
The trip starts the moment you book it. I love the planning and anticipation of looking forward to a trip. Counting down the days, researching a new place, getting excited together over all the good things to come. It makes the dull, everyday stuff a bit more exciting and gives us all a happy hook…
This week, Koko is leaving Primary School. At no point over the last eight years of her full time schooling, did I imagine feeling such an explosion of emotions when the time came for her to move on to pastures new. I am on a rollercoaster ride of emotions, of memories and of gratitude. Koko…
It has been almost two months since I started writing this blog, and documenting our travel tales. I feel like I have found a vessel for my creativity that had been lying dormant within me for years. Like I’d always had this itch, and didn’t quite know how to scratch it. Like something was trying…
I think the single most valuable thing I learnt in school was how to speak a foreign language, or in fact, two. I mean, I learnt lots of valuable things and many of those weren’t academic in any way, but in terms of knowledge, the biggest gift I took from my education was the magic…
“Live a day worth writing about”. @thebucketlistfamily I understand that talking about travel right now is a contentious issue. There seem to be two reactions when I mention travel; those who can’t bear to hear it – and those who need to satisfy their cravings for travel by lapping up every travel vlog, blog, book…