Travelling Toddler Blog

The launch of my cycle to work scheme

Matt — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 20:08:42 +0000

I’ve been wanting my employer to sign up to a cycle to work scheme since I started in Feb ’09, but when I asked again 3 weeks ago little did I know that a launch was imminent. It seemed that I wasn’t the only one pestering HR about it, a case of strength in numbers [...]

Getting our bicycle touring gear together

Matt — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 20:09:28 +0000

It’s been a manic few weeks, so apologies for the relative silence. We’re still here, and we’re hoping to do a couple of S24O’s over the next couple of weeks, in preparation for a 300 mile cycle trip from North Wales to Torquay along national cycle route 5 before the end of the year.

A few [...]

How social media and travel can lead to burglary

Matt — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 23:16:10 +0000

Be careful what you say on twitter

You may or may not have noticed in the news recently, but there is a growing trend of home burglaries taking place as a result of people announcing their travel plans on social media websites. Thieves are actively scouring the big sites like twitter and Facebook, and it [...]

The search for a bicycle child trailer

Matt — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 21:14:42 +0000

A tandem bicycle pulling a child trailer

I thought my search for a children’s bike trailer would take a few weeks at most yet here we are several months later with the beautiful spring sunshine upon us and I am still without a bicycle trailer for my child. The real problem of course is that I [...]

An inspiring trip to South Africa

Matt — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 21:07:23 +0000

It was visiting South Africa in 2002 that really gave me the travel bug. I’d be on quite a few holidays before as I was growing up, but this was different. It was an adventure. The plan was simple enough, we were to spend a week in Johannesburg then fly down to Cape town (Camps [...]

Walking to the top of Moel Famau

Matt — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:19:42 +0000

We had a beautiful early March day up here in North Wales, so as a family we decided to take a walk up to the top of Moel Famau. Moel Famau is hill with a a fort on top, better known as the Jubilee Tower. It’s located in an area of outstanding natural beauty between [...]

Travelling on a bike

Matt — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:31:04 +0000

In our search for inspiration and information I’ve come across a quite a few blogs now written by families travelling with kids. It seems we’re not alone in our dream to travel the world with our child, and that’s good to know.

Amongst the more appealing to me are the blogs written by families travelling on [...]

Starting to piece the world trip together

Matt — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 16:28:23 +0000

We haven’t actually begun planning our world trip in any detail yet, but we have got a plan which is going to help us get started. We both have a a few countries in our heads which we’d like to visit, but we’re going to start by putting together a list of friends and family [...]