For those new to my blog, travel has always been a big part of our lives, having lived in Europe for 5 years BC (before children). The kids had passports from birth and though we went to fairly safe places like Fiji, Vanuatu and New Zealand, we always travelled.
Our world travel wasn't planned, but a blessing we forged out of the hand we were dealt with. Pop over to the page "Adrian" after you read this to get a feeling for the type of man my husband was.; one who very much still travels with us and lives in our hearts.
The short and sweet - The kids and I have been traveling the world since March 2013. Adrian, my husband of 23 years had a brain tumour and last year we sold our Brisbane home, put everything into storage and went to Europe, walked the Santiago Camino ( an arduous trek across Spain of 800 Km)and travelled around the major spots, before he succumbed, went into a coma and died. It was a shockingly dreadful time for us, but I decided I couldn’t settle, and to continue to travel, homeschool the kids and heal… so thats what we are doing. We walked the Camino again in March in my late husbands honour. ( Check the page "Camino 2014" for the daily blog posts on that epic journey) I post HEAPS of photos here on Instagram.
We do a mixture of housesitting ( looking after peoples homes and pets when they go on holiday) and helpX ( unpaid workers in exchange for food and simple lodging) so the kids have learnt to work for their keep! Its been scary times with no income and dwindling savings. We plan to continue into 2015, returning to Australia for a short time before setting off to Europe again.
For blog posts on our World Travelling 2013 - 2015, Search the categories, Europe 2013, Europe 2014, Europe 2015 ( or just click on the links to be taken there)
Prefer to listen to a wrap up?
In Early October 2014, I was interviewed by Eric Hemingway from Family Adventures. They are a family who promote and encourage other families to go out and travel - through their interviews and blogs.
I was pretty excited - and nervous too, having to go through the events which brought us to our travels.
Its about 50 mins long - so grab a cuppa. I've never been in love with my voice and I now know why I much prefer to 'speak' through my writing.. no ummmmms... and no accent...sigh.. annny whoooo..
Enjoy!
Family Adventures
For blog posts on our World Travelling 2013 - 2015, Search the categories, Europe 2013, Europe 2014, Europe 2015 ( or just click on the links to be taken there)
Prefer to listen to a wrap up?
In Early October 2014, I was interviewed by Eric Hemingway from Family Adventures. They are a family who promote and encourage other families to go out and travel - through their interviews and blogs.
I was pretty excited - and nervous too, having to go through the events which brought us to our travels.
Its about 50 mins long - so grab a cuppa. I've never been in love with my voice and I now know why I much prefer to 'speak' through my writing.. no ummmmms... and no accent...sigh.. annny whoooo..
Enjoy!
Family Adventures
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