Exclusive interview with The Great Family Leap
The Great Family Leap has been back in the Netherlands and we had the pleasure of interviewing Taco and Petra from The Great Family Leap about their adventure. How is it to be back in the Netherlands? “We are settling in quite well. It is great to have our own home and possessions back. We love the fact that we have a good extra long bed and the kids are thrilled with all their toys that they re-discovered. What surprises us most is the sheer amount of things that we have: so many books, so much kitchenware, so much of everything. And we miss the sun already, it is so grey and wet here in...
Read MoreWhere to go when you have 7 weeks in Hawaii?
When we made plans for our round the world trip, Hawaii always was on the list. We like volcano’s so we wanted to see the youngest and most active volcano on earth and we would also like to experience some of the best beaches in the world. Also Hawaii makes a nice stop on a journey between New Zealand and the USA. So we booked a flight to Honolulu and a flight out of Honolulu 7 weeks later and didn’t make any plans for the time in between. The state Hawaii consists of eight major islands and several small atolls and islets: Oahu, Big Island, Maui and Kauai are the four largest, while Lanai...
Read MoreTaking toddlers to the Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park
We stayed for a week in Pahoa on Hawai’i island. We really wanted to visit the Volcano national park and we had been waiting for ten months now to finally get here. The islands of Hawaii are all created by volcanic activity and here on Big Island you can still witness this creation. Over the course of a week we visited the park in total three times. When we researched for our trip we did find very little information on activities for toddlers, so here is our guide on taking young kids into the Volcano park. On the first day we were eager to do some hiking, so we checked out 2 short...
Read MoreSnorkeling with sea turtles
We love seeing wild animals in their own habitat. Be it the large herds of elephants in a game park in South Africa or the frolicking dolphins in New Zealand. And since yesterday we can add one more species to the list as we snorkelled with green sea turtles in Hawaii. Yesterday we decided to go to Anini beach. This is a quiet and beautiful beach nearby and is known as one of the safest and most protected beaches in Kauai. There is a 3 km long fringed reef along the length of the beach, making this a very calm, shallow and safe sea to swim and snorkel. Perfect for our family of beginning...
Read MoreKnocked out in Kauai
No – the title of this blog is not meant as a metaphor, that Kauai is so stunning that we are knocked out by it (which would be true by the way). No, we are literally knocked out. Not sure what it is, a nasty virus, the still strongly blowing trade winds, the toll of being on the road for several months now, are the combination of all of the above. But this week all four of us fell ill, a nasty cough, sour throat, tiredness and a headache. Luckily we were not all sick on the same days and neither were we so sick that we needed to stay in bed all day, but we have taken it calm this...
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