Yes ok, they don’t really say that in Australia. Or maybe they do, who knows? I guess we’ll find out! First stop for us is the cunningly named Harbour City, Sydney. The capital city of New South Wales is a sprawling waterside metropolis, home to around five and a half million people. Two…

It seems like a lifetime ago since we set off in our van around Europe for part one of the big adventure. And yet, just like that, it was over in a flash. And now here we are, off on our travels again, which will this time see us travel to the other…

If you were to ask a child to tell you all about Christmas, what would they say? The first thing you’d hear blurt excitedly from their lips would undoubtably be “PRESENTS!” They would then probably tell you all about Father Christmas with his elves in the North Pole, that’s a given. I think…

Right, we’ve got ONE MORE WEEK OF SCHOOL LEFT! Well, one more week left of this term anyway, but it seems like we’ve reached a bit of a milestone to be honest. This week is assessment week for the kids, which normally means a bit more effort required in lessons towards the end…

That’s the mantra for our stay on the island, get the last two weeks of home school done, whilst enjoying the perfect beaches and facilities on offer. But we also wanna explore the island as well. There are loads of excursions on offer here in St. Lucia, but we hired a car for…

The reason we’re off to St. Lucia is because, well basically we messed up on the Europe leg of our year off. Having planned to spend a full 4 months in Europe, it wasn’t until a few weeks before we were about to travel that we realised we were only actually allowed 90…

This is it, our last day in Europe. We have now exhausted our 90 day window and must escape back to Blighty pending the next part of our trip. We figured the best plan would be to get as close as we could to the ferry port of Santander, and managed to find…

San Sebastián is known as the gastronomical capital of Spain, and for very good reason. It is due to the fact that it boasts the second most Michelin stars per capita of any town in the world, behind only Kyoto in Japan. This is normally the reason people have given me for visiting…

We’ve had the chance to visit quite a few cities on our trip, and no less than five of those so far have been capital cities. Today we are visiting one more, Madrid, which lies at the very heart of Spain, hundreds of miles from the nearest coastline in any direction. Madrid is…

Trying to work out a route north through Spain from Gibraltar is tough. This is a big country, where do you start? We probably aren’t going to see a beach again now for quite a while, so our first stop is El Puerto De Santa Maria near Cadiz purely for this reason. Cadiz…