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4 Months to D Day!
Eek! The ticker on our countdown has just moved from 5 to 4 months! After scouting around for families who have written or blogged about their gap year experiences, I’ve been reading Elisa Bernick’s...
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The Adventure Travel Show, how useful for a Family Gap Year?
With Oma baby sitting and Mo and I nursing mild hangovers we jumped on a train up to Olympia to visit the Adventure Travel Show a couple of weekends ago to do some research for our family gap year. Not...
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Galapagos Volunteering – Part One
It is a long time since I blogged and I have missed it! Mo has been hogging the computer with her excellent Amazon Diary but I have plenty of posts planned so I won’t be as quiet. We spent a few weeks...
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Galapagos Volunteering – Part Two
Monday we have a reprieve, we will start on Tuesday at the school and Willy sits us down and talks to us about the kids and what to expect. San Cristobal has a population of 6000 of which just under...
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Galapagos Volunteering – Part Three
The horror of being involved with getting the kids ready for school! Maybe I am a lone Dad who finds this part of the day a touch frustrating but I suspect this may be a common problem even in the more...
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My Galapagos Family and Other Animals
We have been living in the Galápagos for a month. We lived in the town of Puerto Baquerizo Moreno in San Cristobal Island, which has a lovely harbour and promenade called the Malecon where we would see...
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Galapagos Volunteering – Part Four. Five go to school!
You probably read about our arrival and first days in San Cristobal in Martin’s Galapagos Volunteering Part One, Part Two and Part Three. Following on, here’s my own tale of teaching in our first week!...
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Galapagos Volunteering – Part Five. Accidents will happen…
Things seldom work out as planned! Our first week of volunteering was full on as you can read in the previous volunteering blogs. I couldn’t say we knew what to expect, although we could only hope it...
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A Gap Year Christmas in Cusco
Feliz Navidad from Cusco, Peru…. no, too late for that! In fact two days ago, 11th January 2013, was exactly 6 months since we started our Family Gap year adventure…even Feliz Ano Nuevo is belated! At...
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Back to Bali – and more friends and festivities …
We fly back to Bali from Singapore because we loved it so much a month ago and decided it was worth looping back for Christmas and New Year and seeing more of the friends we enjoyed our time with on...
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4 Months to D Day!
Eek! The ticker on our countdown has just moved from 5 to 4 months! After scouting around for families who have written or blogged about their gap year experiences, I’ve been reading Elisa Bernick’s...
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