by Liz Deacle | Podcasts, world travel
Five years ago, Brian and I left everything behind (including a full-time job with a regular wage) to take our family (two teenage kids), travelling around the world for a year.
We visited almost thirty countries, including Japan, India, Sri Lanka, America, Vietnam, Thailand, Hong Kong and many countries in Europe. Our budget was 100 NZD (approx $70) a day.
Because we were visiting places we had never been to before, we made sure to do plenty of research beforehand.
Sadly, lots (most) of the information we found online turned out to be a load of codswallop. Fearmongering rubbish.
Today, because Liz is almost ready to release “The TravelBog Diaries: One Woman’s wickedly funny confessions of surviving family world travel” (HURRAY!!!), we thought it would be fun to stay on the travel theme and share some of those Un-truths with you. Let you know that not everything you read online about destinations is believable and inspire you to step out and explore these countries yourself!!
Enjoy!
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by Liz Deacle | Podcasts, world travel
We’re back. After six months of complete freedom, swanning around Europe and Asia doing exactly as we please, we are back home to New Zealand. And boy did we land with a bump.
In this weeks show we wanted to share the realities of long term travel. Give you a glimpse into the nitty gritty truths of what returning home to normal life after being on the road for six months looks and feels like.
This show is dedicated to our beautiful girl Pandora. The best cat a family could ever ask for. RIP sweet girl.
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by Liz Deacle | Asia Travel, Podcasts, world travel
This week’s episode is brought to you from Chiang Mai in Thailand. As this will be the last episode that we do while on this six-month trip, we thought that we’d make it an extra special episode for you.
We have decided to do/say/talk about/share a few things that make us both feel rather uncomfortable. Especially me. But. You will love it. We know you will. And that makes the uncomfortableness all ok.
So sit back, enjoy the show and let us wow you with what we are about to share!
PS: Can we just say a HUGE thank you! thank you for being here with us for the past six months, for sharing our highs and lows and for supporting us along the way. You are wonderful. Thank you x
Remember that you can email us at any time. We love it when people reach out. Why not say hi and let us know what you thought of this week’s show? – I’ll wait for you! [email protected]
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by Liz Deacle | Europe, Podcasts, world travel
Would I be wrong in guessing that you’ve dreamed of spending a few glorious weeks in Greece with your family at some time in your life?
An idyllic Greek Island vacation. A trip to Greece.
Have you spent hours (dare I say weeks) drooling at pictures on the internet of golden sand beaches and flat-roofed white houses that can only be found on an island in Greece somewhere in the middle of the Aegean Sea?
You and me both.
I can’t tell you how many times I have typed into Google ‘What does a Greece vacation cost’, only to be forced towards twenty million ads that never give me a straightforward answer.
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by Liz Deacle | Budget travel, Housesitting, Long Term Travel, Podcasts, world travel
If we’ve heard it once, we’ve heard it a thousand times: How do you afford to travel the world? Are you rich? How do you afford to keep taking so much time off to travel?
Why haven’t you got a proper job?
I cannot wait to share this episode with you!
Never in my wildest dreams did I ever imagine that we would be a couple who could say, ‘We have location-independent jobs and get paid while travelling the world’.
Never.
Yet it seems that’s exactly what we’re doing.
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by Liz Deacle | Reviews, world travel
Going on vacation can go one of two ways.
Either you ease yourself into your holiday preparation nice and gently, leave yourself no room for mistakes by using a travel checklist that Mary Poppins would be proud of
Or…
You can be like the majority of people who are planning a vacation.
You save up all year, get stressed out of your brain worrying about anything and everything, including the fact that you forgot to buy travel insurance, and then freak out because the kids aren’t as excited as they should be.
Only to return home two weeks later feeling broke, frazzled and quite frankly, exhausted.
And you have sunburn on your shoulders.
Sound faintly familiar? Just a teeny bit?
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