Tag Archives: travel tips
Tips for Staying Sane
This is part of a survival guide I have figured out while traveling. It’s easier when there are two parents traveling because when situations get too much for one adult the other can take over. Things have been pretty intense … Continue reading
Great Online Travel Quiz For Children
I found this fantastic educational game online the other day while browsing through the internet. It is a great introduction for children to culinary etiquette from several countries around the world. It’s called Don’t Gross Out The World and Katie … Continue reading
How Being a Good House Guest Also Applies to Couchsurfing
I found a great new blog today run by an American ex-pat who has been living in the UK for the past nineteen years. Michelle is running a series about How to Learn to Love the Host Culture and in … Continue reading
Forget the Heavy Guidebooks
When I travelled to Mexico I decided to forego carrying around a heavy guidebook which had been one of the biggest trials of the trip. When someone told me that I could just purchase and download only the chapters I … Continue reading
Learning Spanish – The Online Way
I found a fun new way to learn Spanish the other day. It’s an online website where you can either pay for premium content or just use the basic content for free! Live Mocha offers tutorials for various languages and … Continue reading
Helpful Gadgets
Here is a list of gadgets we took on our trip that proved indispensible. And just to be balanced I’ve included a couple that we could have survived without. Continue reading
The Squatting Issue
Although Katie had been on her first international adventure at the age of ten months old, which she obviously can’t remember, the first time she realized that the whole world doesn’t look like it does at home, she was four … Continue reading