FarCloser Travel

15/05/2026

There's a difference between a trip that works for everyone and a trip that entertains your kids. One is designed around your family. The other is designed to avoid complaints.

The trip designed to avoid complaints requires constant input - snacks, screens, queues, diversions. Everyone is managing something. The trip designed around your family requires a different kind of preparation: understanding what each person actually cares about, and finding the place where those interests overlap in the real world. That trip doesn't need to be managed. It runs itself.

A family that travels around their genuine curiosities doesn't fight over the itinerary. They fight over who gets to go back.

Save this. It's a useful frame for the next time you're trying to get everyone to agree.

13/05/2026

If your kid is obsessed with cooking, the best thing you can do isn't enroll them in a class. It's take them somewhere food tells the whole story of a place.

In Marrakech, a morning market visit with a local cook - who selects ingredients your child has never seen, explains what the spices do and where they came from, and teaches a recipe that goes back centuries - produces a different kind of learning than any cookbook. In Bologna, a family-run pasta workshop where a grandmother and her daughter have been making tagliatelle since before your children were born will change how your kid understands tradition. Both trips start with curiosity and end with connection.

Food-led travel doesn't just teach children to cook. It teaches them that food is memory, history, and love - all at once.

What's your kid currently obsessed with? Drop it below - I'll find a destination. 👇

11/05/2026

You are allowed to want something more from your family holiday than controlled chaos in a pool.

The version of family travel that gets sold to you - the resort, the all-inclusive, the kids' club - is designed around one assumption: that parents and children need to be managed separately until the holiday is over. That assumption isn't wrong for every family. But it might be wrong for yours. If you've ever felt vaguely dissatisfied after a "perfect" holiday - the one that went exactly to plan and produced no real memories - you might be a family that needs something different.

You're not asking for too much. You're asking for the wrong thing. A meaningful trip isn't more expensive, more complicated, or more ambitious. It's just designed differently - from your family outward, not from a catalogue inward.

The link in my bio is where I share ideas like this every two weeks.

19/01/2022

Do you have mask analysis paralysis? We do too. Here is some advice from some experts:

We asked experts for the latest on which face masks are safest, where to buy them, and how to properly wear them.

18/01/2022

Should you be riding elephants on your next trip? 🐘 Find out -

Here are some things to consider before you go elephant riding on your next trip.

14/01/2022

When you think of India, your mind might default to crowded cities with lots of people but a tour of "God's Own Country" shows there's much more to India with its lush green mountains, tea plantations, wildlife sanctuaries, and even houseboating experiences in the backwaters of Alleppey. Our friends at Seven Wonder Tour & Travels can show you all of this and more.
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11/01/2022

Trying to understand Travel Insurance as it relates to COVID? Check out these FAQs from World Nomads

Traveling overseas but worried about Coronavirus? Check out our FAQ’s | Get an instant quote or make a claim 24/7.

06/01/2022

Let's face it, most of us still aren't headed anywhere foreign in the very near future so in the meantime, here are a few ideas to bring a vacation home.
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25/12/2021

“Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often, it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know, none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is, all around.” ~ Love Actually

It’s been another tough year but we haven’t lost hope that we will be able to travel and reconnect again soon. Until then, wishing you and your families a happy and healthy holiday season ❤️🎄

14/07/2021

Some things just have to be seen in person 😮 Experience Victoria Falls for yourself with our friends at Africa Beast Safaris ➡️

03/07/2021

Who says are only in Africa? Our friends at can show you the “wilder” side of