Welcome to Our Family wanders!

We are a family of four with two young boys who have been travelling since they were babies. We’ve lived and travelled in the UK, and the Netherlands with kids and are now based in Sydney, Australia. Prior to having kids we spent every available moment exploring far and wide and have continued this with our boys. We spend our time giving everything a try from bus museums and steam train rides, to zoos and family hikes, we just like to have an adventure! We really enjoy trying to get to the heart of a place and are keen on both city and nature.

Al and I (Lara, the blog writer) met at university in Sydney. I’d just come back from a gap year in the UK and was keen to travel as much as possible. I convinced Al to save up his money and spend 6 weeks in the Philippines with me over the summer university holidays. The Philippine trip just increased our enthusiasm for travel and once we’d finished our studies we started saving for a backpacking trip through Central and South America.

10 months through Latin America later and we relocated to London where we spent every weekend and holiday travelling around Europe and further afield. When our two boys joined us we knew we would keep travelling with them and we have! The boys have visited many different places and have a great love of the outdoors, wildlife and discovering new things – now if we can just get them to be more adventurous with food, that would be great!

After 15 years we’ve returned to Australia and we’ve been out exploring Sydney and NSW. We’re hoping for more Australian adventures to come, and to get to the Pacific Islands and South East Asia as soon as we can!