Your point about health care is a good one – and we travel with a fairly comprehensive travel/medical insurance plan which provides for private emergency/short term health care on location. We’re looking into worldwide private health care (not just travel insurance-based cover) as we speak – and it’s definitely something we’ve factored into the budget.

As to the costs & quality of living – they will of course largely depend on where you choose to go. For example, where we are currently (South Africa), we have a far higher standard of living for about half the cost we’d pay for it in the UK/US so it works out very cost effectively – with kids, the foods here are ‘normal’ and not especially ‘foreign’ so acclimatisation wouldn’t be too much of an issue.

Doing what we do with kids is something we’ve talked about – and we think is logistically possible (no kids on the horizon for us for a while though!)…it just demands a little more planning and prob a bit less of the get-up-and-go flexibility you have whilst travelling without kids.

Anyway – just wanted to say “hi”!!