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Let’s show our kids the World!

Let’s show our kids the World!

Want to travel with your kids?

You’ve come to the right place for inspiration. Here we share our family travel tips, personal reviews, and itineraries for global travel adventures!

We’re the Lynn Family, aka ‘TraveLynn Family’ – Jenny (Mum), Jay (Dad), Arthur (age 10) and Ezra (age 8). We’re from the UK, but just about to move to Malaysia, and we’ve been travelling as a family to off-the-beaten track destinations ever since the boys were born.

Our ‘big’ trips include:

But whilst we love off-the-beaten-track adventures, we also love exploring Europe on our doorstep, be it road tripping in our Bongo camper or a short European city break.

Our style of travel

Travel for us isn’t a once-in-a-lifetime experience, nor have we sold up and hit the road fulltime, homeschooling our kids. In fact, our boys love their school, their friends and their clubs, and us parents need the childcare of school to be able to work. But travel is a huge part of our lives and since the boys were born, we have found ways to travel as much as possible; living overseas, saving funds and quitting jobs, deregistering our boys from school, creating remote work, and of course, learning the tricks and rewards of budget family travel… we’ve learned to be quite creative!

With the boys now of schooling age and based in the UK’s Peak District we make the most of the 14 weeks of school holidays in the UK, but we also take the boys out of school to travel 4-5 months at a time and embrace the philosophy of worldschooling.

Do we homeschool when we travel? Oh no. Lockdowns sucked any ability we ever had to homeschool our kids. Online learning works brilliantly for us! You can read about our approach to online schooling here.

Our longer adventures allow us to embrace slow family travel. Rather than jumping from one place to another to cram as much as possible in, we are happy to spend weeks (and sometimes months) in the one country. This is a deeper travel, a more rewarding travel, where the natural daily routines of staying in the one place for a big chunk of time allows you to feel part of the local community. It’s also a much cheaper way to travel as you’re money goes further.

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Travel Highlights 2019

Our current travel plans

2023 was quite a year for travel, with our main adventure being the 10 weeks backpacking Southeast Asia (which included Thailand, Cambodia, Malaysia, Singapore). For this, the boys were deregistered from school and Jay took unpaid parental leave.

Click here for our full roundup of travel in 2023.

And as for 2024? Well so far there have been trips to Essaouira, Morocco, and Bucharest, Romania. And in April we’re moving to Penang, Malaysia! We’ve been granted digital nomad visas and found the boys a lovely school. We’re so excited about this new adventure!

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Southeast Asia with kids, Angkor Wat

OUR SOUTHEAST ASIA ITINERARY

online schooling in Marrakech

Online schooling for family travel

backpacking with kids

TIPS FOR BACKPACKING WITH KIDS

markets in Siem Reap

WHAT IS WORLDSCHOOLING?

packing light for family travel

packing light for family travel

HOW WE AFFORD TO TRAVEL

TraveLynn Family at Milan Duomo

taking parental leave to travel

Latest from the blog:

MALAYSIA

Jaipur with kids

INDIA

Into the Glacier tour

ICELAND

Cambodia with kids

CAMBODIA

Poon Hill with kids

NEPAL

Malawi itinerary with kids

MALAWI

Thailand itinerary with kids

THAILAND

Arugam Bay with kids

SRI LANKA

Namibia itinerary with kids

NAMIBIA

jumping in Casablanca

MOROCCO

FRANCE

Cologne Cathedral

GERMANY