In a previous post I went through why we chose the Kiddy Evoluna i-Size car seat. In this post I talk about how we have got on with it over the past 6+ months.
Sitting up positionWhy we chose the Kiddy Evoluna i-Size car seat
With our first child due in January 2017 I spent a lot of the Autumn of 2016 doing research into all the bits we needed to get ahead of its arrival. This post goes through why we chose the Kiddy Evoluna i-Size car seat.
Sitting up positionAustralia route
After a flying visit to Uluru, we drove more than 3000km down the East Coast of Australia in our Hippie Camper, only breaking one awning and one windscreen as we went! We had an amazing time and want to go back to explore more of the country.
Enjoying some shade from our Hippie Camper in CairnsNew Zealand route
We drove more than 5000kms in our Spaceship around New Zealand in our time there, and could easily have visited many more places had time permitted.
Saying goodbye to Button, our beloved SpaceshipSouth America route
We travelled more than 8,065km on buses around South America – it turns out that it is quite a big place!
Settling in for the 20 hour bus journey from Puerto Iguazu to Buenos AiresOne year on…
A year ago today we set of into the unknown – a seven month trip around the world. We had moved out of our house, taken sabbaticals from work and only had what we could fit into a backpack each.
As it turned out, the trip was nothing less than life changing – we saw and experienced things greater than our wildest imaginations. We have come back with a greater appreciation of everyday things that we had previously taken for granted, are more ethically and environmentally conscious and have a greater desire to give back to communities both locally and abroad.
Artwork on a school in BoliviaFlying around the world
We have calculated how far we flew during our seven month trip…
En route to Lima
Facts from our Big Adventure
As we have travelled around the world on our Big Adventure we have tried to keep track of random bits of information. Now that our Big Adventure is over we thought we’d share some of these facts.
Having fun on our big adventureBangkok
We landed at Bangkok’s Don Muang airport at 1515 on Monday 2nd December after a short flight from Chiang Mai. We had booked a room at the Holiday Inn Express Siam, right in the middle of the CBD, but our first challenge was to work out how to get there! We would normally have taken a taxi from the airport, but with Bangkok being so big we decided against that idea as it would take a long time and cost a small fortune. Instead we opted for public transport! We had done some research before leaving Chiang Mai about public transport options, but these all looked quite complicated.
Looking out over Bangkok from a Skytrain stationAyutthaya
We arrived in the ancient city of Ayutthaya on Wednesday 3rd December following a two hour train journey from Bangkok. It was the first train I can remember being on where the train stopped for vehicles at a level crossing! Once out of the station it didn’t take long for a tuktuk driver to pounce on us, offering to take us to our hour l hostel for 100BHT. We were prepared for this, having asked the hostel how much a tuktuk from the station should cost and were informed it should be around 50-60BHT, and turned down the 100BHT offer. We eventually managed to get a price of 80BHT, which we accepted. The drive to the hostel only took five minutes, by which time we were right in the heart of the old city.
Wat Chaiwattanaram in the late afternoon sun