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I remember back in my late teens and early twenties when I could happily go out to a nightclub until two in the morning and bounce back reasonably well the next day. Well, those days are no more (my son wakes me up before 6am for a start, apart from any other issues!), but now and again I do like to have a great night out

Lots of people ask for trip planning advice. And many parents ask me for my tips for planning travel with kids

Location independent work, or being a digital nomad, or working online while travelling – there are plenty of ways to describe it but whatever you call it there’s no escaping the fact that more and more people are taking their jobs on the road these days, thanks to the modern marvel of the internet. When I lived abroad the internet wasn’t quite as advanced and to be able to travel and work I had to take local jobs, which in all cases were teaching English

Campervanning with my family through Europe for six months as a kid: definitely gave me a whole new perspective on the world and the realisation that little ol’ Perth, down here in far-away Western Australia, was not all there was to the world. First up I talk to Dean O’Shea who took off on a huge challenge to hike the Pacific Crest Trail in California when he was 22 – and he chose it purely because it was the longest, hardest journey listed in his mother’s book of long, hard journeys! I then chat with Seng Mah, a friend of mine here in Perth who has long told me that going to India is life-changing for many people (and gave him so many insights and new perspectives that his life then changed very significantly, changes that have lasted now for a decade.