Adventures, challenges and our freewheeling family life…

A record of some of our experiences and decisions as a family of four – two adults and one set of twins. Thoughts about going car free in a small town. Maybe unschooling. Challenging ourselves to live differently. General advice and musings relating to bicycle kit, route planning and probably a bunch of other stuff too…

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Cycle Touring with Kids

Cycling the Avenue Verte with Kids

14/08/2026
In August 2026, we cycled the French part of the Avenue Verte, from Dieppe to Paris. This post is intended as a practical, facts and stats focussed resource for other people considering this route. During our own planning for the trip, we had to patch together information and found there…
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10/12/2025
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10/12/2024
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Twin Tour 24

16/10/2024
We didn't manage a mega tour overseas this summer, though I feel that something along those lines is brewing... We did host a few cycle tourists from various countries through Warm Showers though, which always feels a bit like visiting a different country, without actually leaving our home. And we…
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13/12/2023
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Home Ed 2.0

18/11/2023
An update, for our own family history as much as anything. We are now entering home ed two point zero... A couple of weeks ago we deregistered Hatty from school and she officially began home educating alongside Wilf. In many ways this transition has been on the cards for some…
Unschooling

Home Ed – One Month In

02/02/2023
I wrote a post a couple of moths ago about our thoughts around school and home education. Reader, I'm happy to say that we did it. In December we requested that Wilf was taken off the school register and notified our local authority that from January we would be electively…
Unschooling

I feel a blog coming on…

25/12/2022
I've not written on here yet, and to be very honest, today I realised I'd not even read everything Stuart has so carefully taken the time to write (sorry Stu). The truth is, I find writing a challenge (for multiple reasons) and also reading too, hence the lack of writing…
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Thinking About School

30/11/2022
I feel a slight left turn coming. Both on this blog and in our family life... The last two or three months, we've been increasingly interested in the idea of home educating our kids. And right now, we've pretty much decided that we're going to take Wilf out of school…