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Kids Learning Spain Travel

La Sagrada Familia – the little knight on the door

When we went to La Sagrada Familia, the church in Barcelona by Gaudi, I saw on the doors there was a small knight. We didn’t know the name of the knight but he certainly looked crazy! We liked the doors at the entrance because they were covered in letters, words in Spanish from the Bible, […]

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Kids New Zealand

The test run

Lesson learned; super fancy wheelie suitcase/backpacks will not stop kids whining. Alpha and Lennox got fancy wheeled/backpack hybrid suitcases for Christmas.  I thought, ‘maybe, just maybe they would be so excited by the wheels that they wouldn’t whine about lugging around their own stuff.’ Nope. Lennox was a trooper, Alpha not so much. I’m not […]

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Countries Europe Russia Travel

So close, and yet so far away

Russia is right there… just there, over the line and yet we can’t go, all because of timing. I’m more than a little annoyed, but what can you do? St Petersburg is 4.5 hours away from Tallin, Estonia (368.8 km) but because of the way we chose to travel it means we can’t get there. […]

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Countries Europe New Zealand Travel

When we're back

“What are you going to do when you get back?” HaHaHa, that’s a joke question right?! I can barely keep the week straight, let alone to plan that far in advance. I know people are anxious to understand our plans, but we don’t know. All we know so far is that we move out of […]

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Kids New Zealand Travel

The Reality

(Warning a bit of a rant ahead.) Following on from what I mentioned last time is the ‘reality’. Reality does kind of suck. It’s fun dreaming about adventures, imagining what it could be like, but when you actually have to do the hard slog to get from dream to reality…. well it’s bloody hard. Mostly […]