Australia
Road Trips
Teens

Top Tips for road trips with teens

We’ve grown up with road trips, from annual trips to our favourite camp sites, to visiting grandparents on the NSW north coast. After all the family road trip an Aussie tradition, so it’s hardly unusual, although not without challenges. When the kids were younger we had to worry about toilet stops and motion sickness, boredom […]

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Asia
Sustainable Travel
Travel

Sampling the simpler life on Koh Yao

Sitting on the veranda of my bamboo-thatched hut, in this quiet Thailand homestay, I can hear chickens clucking underneath the floorboards, the odd bleat from a family of goats I can see grazing their way across the lawn and the far-away sound of kids playing somewhere in the garden out of sight. There’s the slight […]

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Emerald Beach, Coffs Harbour
Australia
Road Trips
Teens

The Coffs Coast with teens

I’ve been bringing the kids to Coffs since they were in nappies, and boy, has it changed over the years. The Banana remains but there is so much more to do in the great outdoors. Here’s my top picks for Coffs Harbour activities with teenagers. The Big Banana, perhaps for its kitsch value, is a […]

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