Puerto Natales – a Breeze
There is lot of GoreTex and Vibram soles in Puerto Natales, the capital of the Última Esperanza province in Patagonian Chile. The province is named after the Última Esperanza Sound which translates as Last Chance and is a reference to…
Vanuatu: Pacific Island Paradise
If you live in the UK, the chances are you either haven’t heard of Vanuatu or you’ll be familiar with it as a low scoring answer on popular afternoon quiz show Pointless with the multi-talented Alexander Armstrong. For the uninitiated,…
Homeschool – End of Autumn Term
As we round the corner into 2023, it’s time for a new term to begin at Newton World School and an opportunity to take a look at some of the topics we covered over the autumn term. We’ve found that…
Aussie road trip part 2: Tingles and ANZACs
And so we left the South Western tip of Australia behind and travelled east. We were not long into the drive before we had a classic Australian experience. Realising we only had 120Km of petrol left, and the nearest town…
Go for the Komodo Dragons and scuba, but spend more time in Labuan Bajo
The internet is a funny place, full of information on anything you can imagine – how many metres in a fathom, what is the third largest natural harbour in the world, how closely related are red and standard pandas (1.829,…
Bali – Rice Rice, Baby
From Thailand, our next destination was Indonesia, with our main goal to glimpse a sight of the world’s largest reptiles, the prehistoric Komodo Dragons which can only be found in the Komodo National Park (more on this here). As Komodo…
Cambodia: what’s what with Angkor Wat?
Q: Which side of the road do they drive on in Cambodia? A: All of them, as the old joke goes. This was certainly true of the taxi driver that took us from the border post to Siam Reap; often…
Oman road trip: sweet times among the sugar dunes
We knew that as part of our Omani road trip we wanted to drive into and camp in the desert. There are a few different ways to do this. The kids rejected an organised desert camp experience, and camping in…
World school: Term starts for Rafe and Odessa
September saw the start of the autumn term at Rafe and Odessa’s school at home in Chobham, which signalled the right time to get started on world schooling for the kids. Prior to leaving we had been in touch with…
Visiting the temples at Abu Simbel
Abu Simbel is a long way from anywhere, 300 km southwest of Aswan by road, and 20 km north of the Egypt -Sudan border. Remote though it is, it is home to two of the most impressive temples from all…
Adventuring Together
