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Making Travel Videos: 11 tips from the experts

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So you want to be a travel video blogger? Or, maybe that is not what you want to do full time, but you’d like to incorporate a little videoing or vlogging into your travel recording lifestyle. Us too. Except we don’t really know how to do it well, yet. Before you leave us now – [...]

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How To Live A Life Of Travel

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How many times have you seen a photo of someone travelling around the world, with only a backpack to call home, and a wide grin that says freedom rocks and you need to get some? I bet you want some of it too right? Most people do. Except, most people place the idea of them [...]

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17 Tips for Flying with Kids

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17 Tips for Flying with Kids

It’s enough to make parents stay at home and play endless games of hide and seek in the house instead of venturing to a new city or country for a family holiday. Flying with kids can be disastrous. We all know how much people who fly without kids complain about those who fly with children. [...]

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Recipe: Banana, choc-chip and quinoa flake bake

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Food is a big part of a travel. It’s also an expensive part. While we would LOVE to eat out three meals a day and we love travelling to those countries where we can (hello Thailand) it is just not possible. We want to start a new series on the blog where we share with [...]

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How to Get Cheap Flights on the Internet (a sneaky trick)

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Today we have on the blog the lovely Chantelle from Fat Mum Slim I’ve only just been bitten by the travel bug. Up until about two years ago I was one of those people that was happy exploring my own backyard, with an annual road trip thrown in and a few weekends away added to [...]

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Recipe from Jordan: Mansaf

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Mansaf

When we first met Lorraine from Not Quite Nigella, she came bearing a slice of Red Velvet cake. I was in love. Turns out, Lorraine happens to be one of Australia’s most popular food bloggers and the author of the just released book Not Quite Nigella: How I found happiness through butter. Lorraine also loves [...]

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Can Travel Strengthen Marriages and Long-Term Relationships?

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Only a few weeks ago Ben Affleck mentioned the difficulty of marriage in his Oscar winning acceptance speech. “I want to thank you [Jennifer] for working on our marriage for 10 Christmases. It’s good. It is work, but the best kind of work and there’s no one I’d rather work with.” It was a bizarre [...]

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How to Save Money on Travel – 52 Ideas

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How to Save Money

How to save money whilst traveling is one of the most common questions we get asked. It’s a great question. Luckily for us, and you, we have some suggestions. Like us, most people we know include travel high on their priority list each year, as they want to get away from life’s routines and create [...]

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Road Trips – The Ultimate Planning Guide

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Road Trips

If you are new to our site, you will soon realise we are big fans of taking road trips. As a travelling family we can’t rate them highly enough as a memorable travel experience. They are just so practical and cost effective. We have taken many road trips over the years in locations such as [...]

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5 Places to Eat Thai Street Food in Bangkok

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Thai Street Food

Eating Thai street food is one of our favourite things to do in Bangkok. It’s hard not to find a street corner with a row of carts lined up dishing up meals like noodle soup, BBQ pork, fish cakes and delicious curries. Is your mouth watering as much as mine? The good news is that [...]

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