Travel Tips

When planning our trips we devour the relevant Lonely Planet or Rough Guide (whichever is the most up to date – watch for their publication dates!) and scour Tripadvisor for reviews, in conjunction with mini-blogs on Instagram which may be more up to date. We’re always looking for top tips on the destinations we’re planning travel to, particularly relating to travel with kids. Here are some of our top family travel tips from our own travels.

So what exactly is flashpacking? 1

So what exactly is flashpacking?

Given the name of our website (and Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest and Twitter accounts!), and the fact that the term ‘flashpacking’ isn’t that widely used, we get asked a fair bit; ‘what is flashpacking?’ Here's our take on flashpacking and why we think it's the perfect style of travel for families today.
From Backpacking Couple to Flashpacking Family 2

From Backpacking Couple to Flashpacking Family

We’ve deliberated and cogitated a lot over what our first post should be about, and then this radical idea hit us. We decided our introductory post should introduce us! More specifically, it should give a little background on us when we were a backpacking couple and how we evolved into the Flashpacking Family.