Category: Travel
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To Bali with baby: part III (Lovina)
The third installment of our trip to Bali . . . LOVINA For a genuinely relaxed holiday in Bali with little to do other than bask in the sun and eat good food, Lovina in the north west is the place to go. To get there from Ubud we took a 3-hour taxi ride (IDR600,000)…
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To Bali with baby: part I (Sanur)
For anyone considering an overseas trip with a little one, I can highly recommend Bali – the “Island of the Gods” – where we’ve just spent three weeks with our nine month old daughter. Throughout our travels we were blown away by mystical landscapes, rich cultural offerings, and mouthwatering food. More significantly, we were charmed…
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To Bali with baby: part II (Ubud)
UBUD Ubud, the cultural and artistic heart of Bali, is a little town of 30,000 residents, surrounded by picturesque rice fields, covered with vibrant arts and crafts – and swarming with backpackers. Luckily, just a five minute walk from the center of the action, Green Field Hotel and Restaurant promised to provide “a hidden eden”;…
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Flying with a 6-month-old vs Flying with a 5-month old
I recently discovered that traveling on a 12-hour flight with a baby who’s six and a half months old is very different to traveling with a baby who’s five months and three quarters. Baby Hope and I just returned to Tokyo on British Airways 007, after a three-week family holiday in Epsom, near London. While we…
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Baby’s first flight: Tokyo to London on British Airways
I’m pleased (and relieved!) to report that Baby Hope and I had a very smooth journey from Tokyo to London, including a pain-free 12-hour flight on British Airways. Pre-departure I’d been a bit anxious about taking such a lengthy journey with our wriggly almost-6-month old, so was glad when we got off to an efficient…
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Aka-chan admin III: Applying for Baby’s first UK passport, from Japan
To complete the hat-trick of baby admin in Japan, we applied for Hope’s first passport on January 23. On April 11, it finally arrived! Documents required It has to be said that the UK Government guidelines about supporting documents are not particularly clear. Here are the documents we sent to Her Majesty’s Passport Office, in…
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