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Stuart Balkham

Cycle Touring with Kids

Cycling the Avenue Verte with Kids

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…
14/08/2026
CarfreeFamilyHolidays

Twin Tour 24

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…
16/10/2024
Home Ed

Home Ed 2.0

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…
18/11/2023
Unschooling

Home Ed – One Month In

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…
02/02/2023
Unschooling

Thinking About School

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…
30/11/2022
Holidays

Wilderness Wood Tour

After our mini warm up cycle tour at Easter, this summer we gently pushed the kids a little more with a full week of cycling and camping. This time, we extended the excellent Cuckoo Trail and broke the whole trip up with a holiday within a holiday at Wilderness Wood,…
30/08/2022