Don’t wait to travel with your kids until they’re the ‘perfect age’! You never know what’s around the corner to mess up your plans; I think the pandemic has taught everyone that. And really, does the ‘perfect age’ even exist?
This is our little corner of the internet where we share our adventure travels as a family. We’re a UK family that have been travelling with our two boys ever since they were born ; from living in India, trekking the Himalayas, and traversing Africa in a Land Rover.
We have always believed that travel should not wait until the kids are older; and I think the pandemic has taught us that anything can happen to turn our lives up-side-down! We’re sure pleased we didn’t wait until our boys are the ‘perfect age’; whatever that age actually is.
But now things are different. Changing travel restrictions have become the world we live in, and the days of just turning up at a dusty border crossing and winging a visa on the spot are gone for the foreseeable future.
So our travel now is closer to home and since June 2020 we have embraced family #vanlife with our Mazda Bongo 4×4 camper. The boys are school age (6 and 8) and we travel in our Bongo every school holidays (which is a good 15 weeks here in the UK), always favouring the ferry crossing over to the continent for our fix of sunshine, culture, and a nice stock up of wine.
TraveLynn Family was established in 2016 and has grown to be one of the top UK family travel blogs in the UK.
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