{"id":496,"date":"2018-10-15T08:50:34","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T08:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lemonsandpalmtrees.com\/?p=496"},"modified":"2022-07-25T15:52:18","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T15:52:18","slug":"traveling-with-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemonsandpalmtrees.com\/traveling-with-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Going on the Road – Travel with Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"

How to tear about 6 months out of the calendar and spend\u00a0quality time together as a family and go traveling?<\/p>\n

Traveling with kids<\/h2>\n

Before Matias and I had our son Sixten, we did a lot of traveling together. We also lived for 6 months in New York and for one year in Berlin together. This gave us so many great experiences and encounters with interesting and diverse people and lifestyles.<\/p>\n

When we decided to become parents, we knew that we wanted to continue traveling, to let our kid(s meet other cultures and try another way of living.<\/p>\n

After going to Sicily for 1 month, when Sixten was 8 months, as part of our Paternity\/maternity leave, we started to talk about something that can seem impossible for many: To take a leave of absence from work, and just travel and\u00a0be together for a longer period. For us,\u00a0the talk developed into a plan for 5-6 months of traveling.<\/p>\n

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Weekend at M\u00f8n in Denmark<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We wanted to go during the Danish cold and dark winter, to somewhere with great nature and bright warm days, every day. Living costs were essential to think of as we planned to take time off from work and just live on savings. So we started to plan for a trip to our favorite European place; Sicily, and when the weather would get too cold also in Sicily, around December, we would go to Southeast\u00a0Asia.<\/p>\n

Considering Carbon Footprint from Traveling<\/h2>\n

It has been five years since we went to Southeast Asia, and we\u00a0have been wanting to go back. But today most of us think\u00a0about how bad for the environment it is too fly. For me, it does not\u00a0make\u00a0sense to take a long flight from Denmark to Thailand for just 2 weeks. I prefer flying less to reduce my carbon footprint, and if I take a long flight I like to stay a long\u00a0time at the destination.\u00a0 – I have a deep respect for those\u00a0who have stopped to fly entirely.<\/p>\n

To make a CO2-compensation for our flights, we donate money to Carbon Offsets. These are projects that work to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and\u00a0replace energy from fossil fuels with renewable energy.\u00a0The cost of the compensation depends on the distance of the flight, and the calculation is done at certified organizations<\/a>\u00a0that work to minimize our impact.\u00a0 I’m not saying that this donation justifies for our carbon impact and make our travels sustainable. I just think it’s important to keep in mind, how to\u00a0reduce our impact.<\/p>\n

How to go traveling for 6 months<\/h2>\n

Start by making a budget for your travel trip, and make a small goal for what you want (and need) to save up. Maybe your budget does not have to be that sky high as you think? The living costs in both southern Europe and South East Aisa are very affordable. You might not have to save up a lot for long travel. If you plan ahead and want to save up,\u00a0 consider where you can cut down on your finances – quit the many take away coffees and the different subscriptions+\u00b4\u00a8\u00a8p \u00a0you haven’t used for the last 6 months to start with.<\/p>\n

We started to put money aside every month, and to cut down on our expenses. Fewer dinners out, less take away food and shopping of things we didn’t need.\u00a0Matias works with IT and I’m an Anthropologist, without work, so it was not easy to put money aside, and it took some time before we had enough. For Matias, it was hard to find the right time to take a break from work, but when he changed job, it was a perfect time to tell them, he wanted to take 6 months off, and it was totally fine.<\/p>\n

Our objective for long-term traveling<\/h2>\n

We look forward to having all sorts of new experiences together. We are so excited to follow our kid every day in his development, and as he learns about the world. In Sicily, we plan to relax a lot, eat great food, and hike in the amazing nature. In Thailand and Malaysia, we are planning to learn Sixten to like the water, which he is afraid of. And just to enjoy the freedom of not having to rush to work and send Sixten to kindergarten. We plan to travel slow and to take it slow.<\/p>\n

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We love danish summer. Here we are at our friend’s summerhouse. Sixten is playing with his friend Eddie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Follow along here<\/a> and on Instagram<\/a> to see how it goes!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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