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Pacsafe – why we are not traveling without!
Yes? Great, read on as well and know why Pacsafe changed our (travel) live and how anti theft travel bags will will change yours as well! Safety is one of our biggest concerns when traveling. While we are obviously doing our very best to return save and sound, I am not talking about our personal well-being. I am talking about the safety of our precious things. No, not the kids (haha). I found it always challenging on trips to find a save place for passports, documents, money, credit cards, cameras, phones, laptops and other items that we only very reluctantly would like to see gone. And you simply can’t carry…
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Hand luggage only – How to pack for long term travel
As much as I love traveling, I hate packing and everything about it. Packing for long term travel is giving me headaches, to say at least. While admittedly there isn’t really a fix for it, I learned from trip to trip to diminish our baggage. With it the amount to pack, to carry, and finally to unpack again. With a lot of annoyance, a bit of ambition, and fancying some improvisation and minimalism, you can at least travel light. Each item you are not packing – score! As a family of four, we are traveling as much as possible with hand luggage only. To be fair, my children are no…
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a family gap year – know before you go!
I have to admit that our family gap year project started 2 years ago with a very naive plan: we save up a little, do something profitable with our apartment, school the kids somehow, and apart from that we enjoy our family gap year with hanging out happily at a beach or having a walk through a forest. Point. But after a brief reflection we came to the unpleasant conclusion, that it most likely won’t work out like that. If you are planning a trip that includes no salary for a longer period of time, you are not rich and either, you have little humans to take care for, read the…
