Kidding around : tales of travel with children

Lowen, James, (editor.). Bradt, Hilary, (editor.). Murphy, Dervla, 1931- (writer of foreword.). Phillips, Adrian, 1974- (author of introduction.).

Summary: These stories take you across five continents. With plenty of adventurous travel, including trekking with tots in the Himalayas, sailing en famille across the Atlantic Ocean, and the first circumnavigation of Mauritius by bicycle. Find out what happened when a father inadvertently took his daughters to a brothel, and read how one family turned up six hours early for a flight... and still managed to miss it. Joing families paddling with crocodiles and getting their jeep stuck on a beach as the tide is coming in, and watch events unfold as three-year-old Quin befriends a family of cockroaches.

Item details

ISBN: 9781784771058
ISBN: 1784771058
Physical Description: print
xiv, 226 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 20 cm
Publisher: Buckinghamshire, England : Bradt Travel Guides Ltd, 2019.
Copyright: ©2019

Contents / Notes

Formatted Contents Note:

Foreword / Dervla Murphy -- Introduction / Adrian Phillips -- Hikes, hills and wheels. Bedtime stories in Little Tibet / Dervla Murphy -- David's first glimpse of eternal snows / Jane Wilson-Howarth -- Taking the teen for a walk / Jude Marwa -- Harriet's first trek / Mattew Ellis -- Cycling in Mauritius / Hallam and Carole Murray -- Scrapes and mishaps. Early birds / Adrian Phillips -- The husdy ride / Mari Pieri -- The night I took my daughters to a Filipino brothel / High Brune -- The best medicine / Vernon Lacey -- Returning / Elizabeth Pimm -- Using basketball skills in a Chinese hospital / Lori Green LeRoy -- Fall in Mexico / Astrid Vinje -- A wild bus journey across Borneo / Sophie Beesley -- Waterworlds. Adjusting to life at sea / Caspar and Nichola Craven -- The voyage to Wild Cat Island / Amy-Jane Beer -- River journey / Jonathan Lorie -- Bali / Ginny Whitelaw -- Cultural enrichment. Back to our roots / George Bernard Shaw -- A winter in menorca / Kirsty Fergusson -- Bulgarian lessons / Jonathan Campion -- The castle of misadventure / Mairi McCurdy -- Being explorers, having and adventure... and going to school / Celia Dillow -- Chinese blessings / Marie Noonan -- Natures vs nurture. Fun and games drive / Mike Unwin -- Travel from the doorstep / Nicola Chester -- Encounters with the Galápagos / Jane Vincent-Havelka -- Wild, wet and wondrous / Amanda Vincent -- The trip to Bunny Island / Suzanne Kamata -- James's firt night camping / David Lowen -- Road to enlightenment. Travels with my teen: Edinburgh / Theresa Sainsbury -- Looking up / Dom Tulett -- Travelling, differently / Penny Wincer -- Thomas and the great Japanese farewell / Jen Dowd -- Next stop, camping / Lydia Unsworth -- The faraway family tree / Kirstie Pelling.