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Up, Up and Away!

We made it! We’re on the plane! (I´m typing on my iPhone to upload later) First flight, a dash 8 from Canberra to Sydney. Eliane was asleep, nursing before we started taxiing to the run way. Yay! This is the first time the big kids have been on a plane, in their memory. They...
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Still To Do

Book accommodation in Athens Pack Finishing cleaning out bedroom for housesitters Clean house for house sitters Write out instructions re animals for housesitters Pick up tickets from travel agent Figure out what we do re frequent flyer etickets – do we need anything printed out? Practice using the Kids Fly Safe/CARES contraption on a...
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Finding the right travel journal for kids

kids-travel-journal

We’ve spoken to Liam’s teacher about whether she wanted to give us some work for him to do while we’re away, since he’ll be missing 6 weeks of school, and her response was to suggest he keeps a travel journal of what we do, or his impressions, each day while we’re away. When I...
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Getting passport photos for the kids

Back when we got Liam’s first passport, when he was about 18 months old, there were still lots of those little photography shops around, where you went to get your film developed. Camera films, remember those? Anyway, that’s also where you’d go to get your passport photo taken, and the staff pretty well knew...
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Flying with babies (and young children) – the car seat issue

So, we have not yet resolved the umbrella stroller issue (though I have had another recommendation of the Esprit Speed Sun Stroller, which certainly looks like a better stroller overall than the ones I was looking at yesterday, but over $100 – my theoretical limit – and also a bit bigger when folded), but...
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Buying an umbrella stroller/travel stroller

Chicco Ct0.6 Capri Lightweight Stroller in Tangarine

Last time we went o/s we took our regular stroller with us. It was a relatively lightweight one, and I had bought it specifically for a trip to Melbourne when we were staying in an upstairs apartment – so it was much smaller and lighter than our original stroller. But it wasn’t a small...
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To Do List

Travel insurance! Must email our travel agent, Emma, for a quote, but from quick perusal of the brochure she gave us, NRMA looks better. Buy an umbrella stroller – last time we didn’t know what an umbrella stroller was, and the stroller we took was big enough it had to be “checked luggage” for...
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Hello and Welcome!

So. Welcome to my new blog: narrating kayoz goes travelling (with three kids!). We went overseas once before with Liam, when he was nearly two, and of course we’ve been on the odd road trip with Liam & Mikaela, but this will be the first trip of more than about a two hour drive...
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