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Snapshots of life for our family of 4: Home educating, worldschooling, travelling and everything inbetween

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Urban Explorers
A few years ago our eldest son showed me an article he had come across online called something like “10 Creepiest Tourist Destinations”...
vsigston
Sep 25, 20234 min read
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Full time travel: Week 27 and 28: Countryside and mountains
Cyprus: Peyia, Paphos, Akoursos, Episkopi, Troodos, Pano Platres, Tala, Chloraka Over half a year since we left Medway. It feels like...
vsigston
Apr 22, 20234 min read
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Full Time Travel: Week 25 and 26: Easter and a Birthday
Cyprus: Limassol, Peyia, Lempa, Paphos, Tala We were drawn to the sea more than usual during these weeks, we couldn't get enough of it....
vsigston
Apr 19, 20234 min read
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Week 23 and 24 of full time travel. Cyprus: Paphos, Peyia, Geroskipou, Tala and Kouklia
(As previously mentioned in my Blog Post entitled "Settling into Cyprus" I am going to be using a slightly different method to write...
vsigston
Apr 18, 20234 min read
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Why WorldSchool?
The following article was written by me and published in the Early Spring 2023 edition of Juno Magazine https://www.junomagazine.com/...
vsigston
Mar 31, 20237 min read
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Settling in to Cyprus
A slightly different feel to our blog posts for a while as I attempt to catch up the site so that it matches (at least gets close) to...
vsigston
Mar 31, 20232 min read
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Arriving in Cyprus
After leaving Egypt we decided that we wanted another long term stay like we’d had in Greece, so after some investigation we found an...
vsigston
Feb 23, 20233 min read
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Time for goodbyes
Our final week in Luxor was jam packed with fun and excitement, making the goodbyes at the end of the week feel really tough. But to copy...
vsigston
Jun 29, 20224 min read
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This is paradise
One thing I didn't expect from our time in Egypt was to have very much time by the sea. We had planned Cairo and Luxor, and while the...
vsigston
Jun 22, 20227 min read
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The Boy King
You may remember from our posts about Cairo how much we enjoyed seeing the Tutankhamun exhibition at the Egyptian museum. We saw some of...
vsigston
Jun 19, 20228 min read
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The Lotus Effect
Our time here in Egpyt was flying by as we entered week four and this week would be full of history and community. When I look back at...
vsigston
Jun 9, 20225 min read
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Move over Lord Sugar
The theme of the term our boys spent at the Luxor Worldschool Hub was entrepreneurship and the organisers had planned lots of events and...
vsigston
Jun 9, 20224 min read
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The view from above
Our third week in Luxor started with a bang (luckily not literally!) as I got to tick off an activity that's been on my bucket list for a...
vsigston
May 22, 20226 min read
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Luxor Temple
Every single person we know who has been to Luxor has told us about visiting Luxor and Karnak temples on the East bank, so we had decided...
vsigston
May 9, 20226 min read
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Sugarcanes and Fire dancing
Our first day at the Luxor Worldschool Hub was a leap into the unknown. Although we'd met most of the families in the days leading up to...
vsigston
May 5, 20226 min read
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Worldschool Hubs
One of the things I've been asked about most as we've shared our travels so far is the hub that the boys attended in Luxor so I'm going...
vsigston
May 2, 20226 min read
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Living in Luxor
We had planned to be in Luxor for the boys to attend a term at a Worldschool Hub. I want to write a separate post about what that is and...
vsigston
Apr 27, 20226 min read
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Overnight trains
Our last day in Cairo was a fairly quiet affair after the hectic pace of the previous week, we all slept in late, ate a leisurely...
vsigston
Apr 24, 20227 min read
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Cairo's hidden gems
Our final day with our guide Reem was also our warmest day in Cairo, the clouds were finally lifting and that blue sky we'd been hoping...
vsigston
Apr 19, 20226 min read
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Giza calling
Our third day in Cairo started with the big one, a trip to the Giza Plateau. I think when you mention Egypt this is what people...
vsigston
Apr 14, 20226 min read
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