“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?”
(Jenny Lynn, Mum and Editor of TraveLynn Family)
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 11) and Ezra (age 10). We’re from the UK, but for the past 18 months, we’ve lived in 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:
- 6 weeks road tripping Western Australia (2025)
- 45 days backpacking Vietnam (2024)
- 10 weeks backpacking Southeast Asia (2023)
- slow travelling and living in Morocco for 4 months (2022)
- a full summer of Bongo vanlife in France (2021)
- 101 days traversing Africa in a Land Rover (2018)
- trekking the Himalayas (2018)
- living in India for a year (2017)
But whilst we love off-the-beaten-track adventures, we also love European city breaks and occasionally treating ourselves to a bit of luxury (check out our review of our recent stay at Rixos Marina Abu Dhabi).
TraveLynn Family was established in 2016 and has grown to be one of the top family travel blogs in the UK, receiving over 150k page views per month to this website and with an engaged following of over 27k on Instagram.
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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 we embrace the philosophy of worldschooling.
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 UK school, creating remote work, and of course, learning the tricks and rewards of budget family travel… we’ve learned to be quite creative!
Do we homeschool when we travel? Oh no. Lockdowns sucked any ability we ever had to homeschool our kids. Online learning has worked 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.
For now, we’re based in Penang, Malaysia, where our boys attend international school. Every school holiday we’re off travelling, while term time is spent in a place that truly feeds our travel souls. It feels like the perfect balance for our family.
Our current travel plans
As with pretty much every year for us, 2025 has been full of adventure! From jungle trekking and volcano climbs in Sumatra, to discovering nearby Ipoh, and island hopping across Thailand where the boys got to try scuba diving for the first time. Summer then took us back to Australia for a six-week road trip through Western Australia.
The rest of the year slows down a little, with a return to Thailand in October and Christmas back in the UK to spend time with family. Looking ahead to 2026, diving is firmly on the cards – it’s time for the whole family to get PADI certified!
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