Time for travel. The tedious journey home began at 5.00am Barcelona time in a balmy 20 degrees and finished in Melbourne at around 10.30pm on Sunday the 16th July in a somewhat less balmy 8 degrees, nearly 34 hours later. In between we argued with a Spanish taxi driver over why our meter read 11 Euros before we'd even hopped in the cab at 5am, we lined up for an inordinate amount of time for our flight to London from Barcelona, we ate berries like seagulls ea...

The life of a modern family. 'Busy' is the word so many people use to describe their life. Some wear it as a badge of honour. It's unavoidable, but I'd like to think we as a family get the balance reasonably right between the mundane 'busy' of school, work, shopping, cleaning, picking up, dropping off and just getting on with things, whilst pleasurable 'busy' involving trips to far fetched places to ride our mountain bikes, keeping ourselves fit and active and...