If there’s a trip planned shortly with the whole family (there is), here are some useful tips from a family of 8 (6 kids & the parents!)
Tag: Travel
The joys & travails of travel [Article]
‘What is life, but a form of motion and a journey through a foreign world?’ – wrote George Santayana in 1964. Claire Evans is a musician, & spends a lot of time on the road, travelling. She contemplates the meaning of travel:
Travel is inherently narcissistic. Even if we’re looking to be knocked off our axis, we’re still in the business of self-improvement. People want to go to faraway places and return changed. A lot rides on this expectation. We hunt for perspective, for miraculous connections, but when these moments happen, we don’t always recognise them — or we look in the wrong places.
Prisoner of the Blackberry [Article]
Robert Kaplan tries to persuade us to switch off – In the Information Age, with constant connection to home and work, we’ve diluted what it means to experience someplace new.
Odyssey Expedition
“We all dream about travelling the world. But some dreams are bigger than others.” Graham Hughes is trying to be the first person to visit every single country in the world, WITHOUT FLYING to get there. Read about his amazing story here!