Safari in Tanzania with a 3 year-old

Now, first of all, sorry for the delay. We went to Tanzania in July 2019, so a whole lotta time ago. Since then life has been incredibly hectic, and I have not had time to sit down for longer than a few minutes before passing out in bed at night. You'd think Corona and all...

It’s been a hot minute! Brazil for Xmas

My life has been super hectic for the last few months and thus I have not written in a while. I have a lot to write about, though! After our trip to Japan in July we didn't travel any more until the end of December. This time we went back to Brazil to visit Felipe's...

Japan part four: Shimoda; a little known gem

From Kyoto we went to a place called Shimoda, where we rented a little beachfront house. The trip went like this: train from our Kyoto house in Tofuku-ji to Kyoto station (one stop), then, after we had bought some bento boxes, o-nigiri, snacks and drinks, we got the Shinkansen to Atami. From Atami we got...

Japan part three: Kyoto; the trains and the heat.

Before we traveled to Japan we had bought ourselves the Japan Rail Pass, available only to foreigners. We had initially thought we needed to buy it online before our trip, but found out later that it's possible to purchase it at the JR Pass offices in Japan. Had we known that we could buy it...

Japan part 2: getting there and Tokyo

We arrived in Tokyo on a Thursday at 8 am after a long journey from our home in Oslo. We had left home with plenty of time to spare, having in mind that we needed to send off our stroller as special luggage, and planned a stop at the chemist before going through security, even...

Japan part one

So last year, right after we came home from a successful trip to Southeast Asia with our little one, we decided almost immediately to take a long trip to Asia again this year. We picked Japan and bought three round trip tickets to Tokyo. For months we didn't know wether we'd spend the whole time...

Eating out with a small child in South-East Asia

First of all, eating out with a small child can be a challenge. You have to be prepared that mealtimes can be pretty tiresome. Small children are often impatient and you might have to run around after the child who's looking at things in the restaurant, babbling with other guests and so on. The good...

Vietnam: celebrating Maya’s first birthday

We arrived in Vietnam in a rainstorm and started badly by being famished and not understanding the visa rules. But after we got through immigration we were picked up by the car that our hotel had arranged for us and were on our way. The trip from Da Nang to the outskirts of Hoi An...

Cambodia (Siem Reap & Angkor Wat)

After a couple of days in Bangkok we ventured on to Siem Reap where we had booked a room in a small boutique hotel a short tuk-tuk ride from the bustling Pub street and surrounding backpack paradise area of central Siem Reap. We were quite  surprised at the extreme tourist friendly environment (with the obvious...

Babywearing, strollers and prams – what we chose and why

Maya isn't the biggest fan of sitting in a stroller, so on some trips bringing one along can feel very superfluous. For example, going on weekend trips to big cities we have in the past made the choice to not bring one. The first ever trip we went on with Maya was Athens for five...