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About Matt

Dad, husband, watersports coach, frustrated windsufer.

The pain of travel

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As we get closer and closer to leaving (its just 7 weeks now), those dreams of travel are becoming less nebulous and hazy and more and more solid. Reality has begun to bite and I have to say, I’m starting …

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So much to do so little time.

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Found a new plug in to put to do lists in posts, so here’s the first>

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Flights booked!

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So its taken a long time and I’ve bothered a number of different agents but last week I finally bit the bullet and booked our main flights. [osm_map lat=”5″ long=”18.5″ zoom=”1″ width=”700″ height=”250″ gpx_file=”http://thebeaumontfamily.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/route.gpx” gpx_colour=”red” ] We decided that China, …

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Digging for Dinosaurs

Will mentioned last night that the biggest dinosaur came from Argentina. I’ve no idea where he got this from, just one of the many odd facts that he keeps in his little head. Anyhow a little bit of digging (excuse …

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Penguins in Chile

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Ask Will what he wants to do when he grows up and you’ll get a variety of answers depending on the latest craze – racing driver, batman, ninja – but one that never varies is penguin feeder. Not at a …

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Belize and the chocolate factory

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So one destination that has unanimous agreement amongst the family is Ambergis Caye in San Pedro, the home of Uncle Chris, Auntie Jo and cousin Noah. Chris and Jo moved out to Belize to set up a windsurfing and sailing …

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A local camping trip – thoughts of going further

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This weekend, we packed up the van and went camping at Cae Du near Beddgelert. We weren’t sure what we wanted to do so took bikes, gear for gorge walking and mountain walking but still it was just a weekend …

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Hello world!

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Once upon a time, a long time ago ….. before Jo and I were married we did the ’round the world’ travel thing, visiting New Zealand, Australia and parts of Aisa. We survived the pre-honeymoon trip and now its 16 years …

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