This Parenting Thing 

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

We reluctantly woke to an early alarm on our first full day in Cairo. We were not going to be in the capital for very long and had lots...

The time has gone so quickly here in Greece but our 3 months are up and it's time to change country, and continent as we head off into...

I have an almost pathological need to explore new places and walk for miles. In our family it's a bit of a running joke that if I ever...

After the fun of Christmas on the mainland we settled down again for our last weeks in Kefalonia and our first adventure of 2022 was...

It feels a little weird publishing a post about Christmas in February but I really want these blogs to be in chronological order, for our...

Did you know that you can visit and even run a lap of an Olympic stadium right in the middle of Athens? We didn't, but in researching our...

I don't think any trip to Athens would be complete without visiting a museum or two, just like many other capital cities it's full of...

After my emotional post talking about seeing the Acropolis and Parthenon from afar I thought I would now share our experience of seeing...

One of our reasons for visiting Athens was because, for the longest time I have wanted to see the famous Acropolis and Parthenon and so...

We had always planned to leave Kefalonia for Christmas to spend the festive period in Athens. I had wanted to visit this historic city...

I was amused by a sign for "Cyclopean Walls" as we drove near the Kefalonian capital, Argostoli one afternoon and when I got back to base...

Quite a few people on my social media pages have been interested in our volunteer work with Wildlife Sense here in Kefalonia, in fact my...

As my Shakespearean title suggests I thought I’d tell you about a couple of cemeteries that the boys and I have visited during our stay....