Here we go! After months if not years of dreaming and planning we did it, we travelled around the world as a family for one year. Our trip started on 1st December 2019 and the rough plan was:
3 months South America
1-2 months Africa
2-3 months Europe
then heading back to NZ via India, Nepal, Vietnam and Australia with the goal to be back in New Zealand by Christmas 2020.
Well, that was the plan indeed – but as with everything else, our trip didn’t go according to plan. The Coronavirus hit and threw everything up in the air. We had to cut Africa short by a month and stayed in Europe for much longer, spending time with family. We arrived back in New Zealand in early December 2020 and after 2 weeks of isolation are now settled back in just fine.
This site was for friends and family to follow our adventure, give us tipps and recommendations for places we visit, and really to hopefully join us at some stage on our journey. The other key reason was for us to keep track and remember all the things we have seen and done as somehow we now want to sum up the trip so we can look back it at with the kids in the years to come.
Here is our travel blog with lots of posts during our adventure written by the kids and me.