Can you imagine two sensible parents giving up their 'nice' lifestyle at home, renting out the house, giving up a career, and then taking their two children (3 and 7 year old girls) around the world for a year on a backpacking trip?

Well, that's exactly what we did in 2003 & 2004. You don't need to imagine...you can follow the whole trip on this website, and see how we got on.

This was us, when we didn't know what the next year was going to be like! We gave it all up, packed a rucksack each, booked a round the world ticket, and went - 369 days, 14 countries and thousands of miles by car, camper, bus, train, plane, elephant, rickshaw, bicycle, boat and on foot.

You could start by reading the basics - food, travel, safety - of travelling with children or read the diary of our trip by date, or by country.



Or select the country you want to read about:
Canada - USA - Fiji - Australia - New Zealand - Singapore - Malaysia - Thailand - Laos - Cambodia - Vietnam - France - Returning to normal life

The menus at the top of the page give you the chance to read more of the background to our trip, as well as see some of the photos we took, and videos that we made, to explain more about our trip.