Interview – Bethaney from Flashpacker Family

Something a little different, here’s an interview with a lovely lady who’s kindly agreed to answer a few questions…I urge you to check out her blog Flashpacker Family and follow her and her family’s travelling adventures… Please introduce yourself and the reason behind Flashpacker Family. I’m Bethaney and my site is Flashpacker Family. I created [...]

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Travel Insurance for Everest Base Camp

When doing any overseas trip you should invest in travel insurance, this is to cover you for a whole range of incidents that may occur on your trip.  When trekking over 5000m, you need to make sure that either your current travel insurance covers you for this or you need to make sure when buying [...]

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Should I buy new hiking boots?

I’ve been trying to decide whether I should replace my hiking boots which were a fairly cheap buy for when I did Kilimanjaro.  At the time I didn’t want to splash out on a pair that I may not use again, but now with Everest Base Camp on the horizon I’m pondering if I should [...]

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Worry No.3 – Getting Sick

Been a long time since I’ve thought of another worry for when I do Everest Base Camp, this one ‘getting sick’ came courtesy of recently reading a post from Sarah who runs the popular travel blog Sarah Somewhere on when she did Everest Base Camp and got food poisoning!  She goes on to describe how [...]

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Devaraja Market - Mysore

Teaching in India.

When I was in my last year of school, I decided that I wanted to try out teaching in India.  Luckily my school had ties with an Indian school called Sandur Residential School in Karnataka.  After a few phones calls between the headmasters, I was booked to go to India on the 5th November 1999 [...]

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Nominated for a 2013 Brilliance in Blogging award – TRAVEL

I found out today that I’ve been nominated for a 2013 Brilliance in Blogging award in the Travel category!  Surprised because my blog is only 2 months old and humbled that someone has nominated me! To be brief, there are 16 categories and 16 blogs in each. “Britmums: These blogs represent a wide range of [...]

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Day trip to London and A Complete History of London show review

On Saturday, me and my Husband took the kids to London for their very first outing in the big city.  Putting aside my country girl fears of the city, mainly amount of people and losing the kids are the main ones! The main reason for the trip was that I saw a tweet from ‘self-confessed [...]

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