After more than 24 hours of traveling between airports (Brussels-Madrid-Johannesburg-Cape Town), we finally arrived at CPT (Cape Town International Airport) around 5PM. Being August, thus South-African winter, the sun was already setting when we set off with our rental car towards our hostel in Cape Town’s Green Point. There were a number of hindrances that …
A family on a European motorhome adventure… What’s not to like about that?! Check out this families’ traveltips… Names: LifeinourVan (Thorley Family) Blog: www.lifeinourvan.com Full-time travelers or part-time travellers: Full Time Travellers – with over 25 countries completed on our journey to complete the full 42 European countries by the end of our 2 year …
Beyond the theme parks and child-centric resorts, suitcases&strollers has ideas about family holidays that are culturally and intellectually stimulating for adults who love to travel – that can still be done with children. Founder Aimee Chan shares her traveltips with you! Names: Aimee Blog: Suitcases and strollers Full-time travelers or part-time travelers: Part time Do you always take …
We have been a bit slow in the traveling families series. In between getting back from South Africa and planning a short camping trip this weekend, we are giving you another update. Cathy from MummyTravels is sharing her traveltips with you tonight. Her colourfull Instagram account is filled with pictures of her lovely girl exploring …
In November 2006, I left Cape Town in South Africa and went on board of the Research Vessel Polarstern. This was the moment I departed on an incredible journey to the Antarctic, which brought me face to face with emperor penguins and took me to open waters that had been ice-covered for thousands of years until 2002. …
Global climate change is a man-made hazard that affects us all. Nowhere is its impact so far-reaching as it is at both the South and North Pole. There are many negative effects, but large-scale melting of ice sheets and a subsequent rise in sea water level are the most conspicuous. In Antarctica, especially the Antarctic Peninsula …
Tonight we share the traveltips of a special instagrammer to me. Anabel is a very sweet mother, who started responding to my pictures when we were traveling through Slovenia last summer. Since then we sometimes comment on eachothers profile, making her a little less of a stranger… 😉 I love her profile and admire her …
The world is an amazing place to explore and be lost in, but this is not always possible – especially when you have kids. Parents are worried about the safety and wellbeing of their children, which generally puts a large number of areas with extreme ends of climate out of the equation. Areas with political …
Katja and Victoria run globetotting.com, a blog about adventurous family travel. I fell in love with their Instagram account and love to read about their travels. Since these two friends run the blog together, they are both sharing their traveltips today. Victoria Westmacott Full-time travelers or part-time travelers: part-time Do you always take your kids …
In our previous blog post about this 2016-2017 Antarctic research expedition on the German RV Polarstern, we were stranded in the ice near Neumayer Station II, at the eastern side of the Weddell Sea. After delivering some important provisions to the residents of the base, we could finally leave the area and navigated towards the Antarctic Peninsula in …
