We undertook a journey of a lifetime in 2008/09 from Cape Town to Rio de Janeiro the long way, taking in Southern Africa, North-east and South-east Asia, Australasia and South America. Join us as we share our travels, trials and tribulations round the globe over this amazing year for our family.

We had the best of times. If you would like to hear more then here is an interview (with huge thanks to our friends Bob and Brenna Redpath) we did for another set of world travellers in 2010:

Please also have a look at our blogs on this site- occasionally a chore to write but a joy to have as a set of memories.

You can also browse through our photos (and yes, there are many) at http://gallery.me.com/familytrippers.

And finally, if you are fellow family travellers, please get in touch at familytrippers@me.com.