Category Archives: Baby planning

5:00am at Ko Samui airport and it seems I’ve booked myself on the babyflight — and while it may well look fairly easy pushing babies in prams along the beach at all hours of a full moon party, it is … Continue reading →

Sorry for the spate of short postings — I’m actually doing a few in a day as I’d missed a couple of days. So when I realised that we’re having a boy, I sent an sms off to S declaring … Continue reading →

I was reclining on the beach earlier this afternoon dreamily staring over the sand and turquoise water when a guy who looked quite similar to me wandered into my line of vision. He had his son, p’haps two years old … Continue reading →

Today I met two French travellers J & J how have been on the road for some six weeks with a young-un (two years old) in tow. I roped them in to question them about how it is to travel … Continue reading →

This having a baby thing has been a bit catalyst for new ideas and schemes related to travel and children (aside from me having a new person to send to look at guesthouses!) One of my ideas yesterday was a … Continue reading →

So you must all know the Simpsons episode where Homer is talking about how they came up with the kid’s names and Homer mentions how the most important criteria was making sure the name was one that could not be … Continue reading →

So yesterday I touched on what the baby would look like if we were both Mafia dons, but as we’re not, we’ve put a bit more thought into it and have come up with the following: As we’re both tall … Continue reading →

Pico Iyer wrote a good book with this very title, talking about people like S and I who spend much of their lives away from their “home country” and he coined the term global soul to decribe them. While the … Continue reading →

As over-the-moon as we are about the little monster (we’ve almost settled on a name already… no I’m not telling!), bringing a little person into this world brings with it a number of pretty substantial decisions we need to make. … Continue reading →