Author: Claire & Ben Cockayne


  • What It Actually Costs: Family Travel Across Twelve European Countries

  • Crossing Borders With Kids: What We’ve Actually Found

  • How We Actually Asked for a Career Break

  • How to Deregister Your Children From UK School to Travel

  • Our Top Travel Tips From Three Months on the Road

  • Looking After Yourself While You Travel

  • Do You Need a Holiday From Traveling?

  • Our Route So Far

  • Start Here

  • The Detour We Didn’t Plan: Austria to Italy

  • Austria: Finding a Base That Finally Felt Like Living, Not Just Staying

  • The Strangers Who Made This Trip

  • Poland: Mountains, History, and Our Favourite City Break Yet

  • Three Countries, One Week: Serbia, Hungary and Slovakia

  • Bosnia: Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover

  • Kids Corner: What Our Children Are Really Saying About Life on the Road

  • Where We’d Actually Stay: Family Hotels on Our Radar in Austria and Switzerland

  • Eight Weeks In: What We’ve Learned About the Places We’ve Stayed

  • Why Communication Is the Thing Holding This Whole Life Together

  • How Our Children Took the News, and How We’re Keeping Them Settled on the Road

  • Packing for a Year on the Road: The System That Actually Works

  • Why We Stopped Planning Ahead

  • What It Actually Costs Us to Live in Spain, Albania, Montenegro and Croatia

  • The Stranger Who Helped Us Buy a Car in Albania

  • Beyond the Postcard: The Weeks Nobody Documents

  • Deregistering Our Children From School to Travel: What We Actually Learned

  • The Cost of Different: What We Actually Gave Up

  • How Claire Took A 14-Month Career Break From The NHS

  • The Real Numbers: What It Actually Cost Us to Leave the UK

  • The Turning Point: How We Finally Decided to Leave