Features // Hayley Spurway

Travelling with children on a budget
Travelling with children on a budget

The first few years of having children takes its toll on your finances, but that doesn’t mean you have to ditch dreams of travelling. Following a family road trip through Europe with her pre-school boys, Hayley Spurway shares some experiences and tips on budget family travel. Many families put off a ‘big trip’ before their…

Travelling with children – surviving ferries
Travelling with children – surviving ferries

Taking the ferry is one of the most exciting ways to travel with young children. Mum of two boys under four, Hayley Spurway shares some top tips for crossing the sea stress-free. Parents, let’s face it, you might as well shelve expensive, long-haul adventures until your children can remember the experience and not spoil every…

Travelling with children – surviving an airport
Travelling with children – surviving an airport

Single-handed, with a rambunctious toddler and six-month old baby, the airport is no longer a simple limbo-land between home and holiday. Since her first trip with two tots, Hayley Spurway has learnt some valuable lessons about surviving the airport.  On my first solo trip with babe and toddler, I hadn’t really throughout about the portion…

Travelling with children – life in a van
Travelling with children – life in a van

A van trip can be an exciting, rewarding, and, at times, thoroughly testing way to travel as a family. After a month on the road with a one- and three-year old, Hayley Spurway learned some valuable lessons about family van life. At the end of a wet Cornish summer we decided to load up the…