Costa Rica is a fascinating, beautiful country to visit. It’s also a brilliant destination for a family holiday. But Costa Rica was the one country that seriously concerned me during the budget planning for our world trip. I knew that it definitely wouldn’t be cheap! I struggled to figure out in advance just what our […]
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Bali was the place we settled down in for the longest time during our family gap year; in total we spent just under two months in Ubud while the boys attended international school. So how much was our travel budget for a family of four in Bali for a month? Slowing down and stopping in
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One of the things I found extraordinarily difficult when planning our year away was trying to figure out exactly what it might cost us. How much did we need to budget for a family gap year? Knowing how much you need to save/earn/budget for is a pretty big deal breaker when it comes to considering
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One of the biggest things we had to untangle during the planning phase of our family gap year was how schooling would work for the boys during our time away. The boys were were 7 and 9 when we left the UK in October 2023. How do you deregister your kids from school to allow you
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As the whole issue of what on earth to pack for a long period of family travel with two small(ish) children was one that I spent a LONG time deliberating I thought it might be helpful to share the details of what we DID end of taking with us in the end. Over the course
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