Travel has always been important to us, as has our time as a family.

After 20 years in the corporate world and the demands of juggling the busy world of UK-life, change was needed. We decided it was time to do more of what we love, together!

We did 3 months full-time family travel in 2019, travelling during shared parental leave. And in 2024 we embarked on a gap year which turned into 18 months of travel adventures!

We still prioritise travel and head off on adventures whenever we can, both abroad and in the UK! Essentially that’s family travel, just exploring and spending time together.

Get to know us all a little better here! We’d love for you to feel part of our adventure, and to share our travel experiences and mistakes! and we’d love to meet up with any one else keen for an adventure.

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Kris here – I am the words behind the Travelling Trowberrys blog! I’ve worked for large outsourcing companies for over 15 years, mainly in sales and marketing. I speak German and Spanish after studying interpreting to Masters level. I lived in Nepal from the age of 2 for 3 years. So far (as at September 2026) visited 51 countries so plenty of work to do here.

I enjoy swimming, paddleboarding and surfing – there’s a genuine watery theme going on here! I follow football, especially the Women’s game! And of course travel, whether it’s with my favourites on this page, or with my girlfriends for city or beach breaks. I like to escape the UK whenever I can! and I like to help others do the same!

I love Mexican food, I rarely sit still, always plotting the next move, and hate the laundry!

This is Stef – the creative one and very much in charge of the photos! Stef’s an artist, with one hell of a talent for figurative and landscape pieces – shameless plug to her website here.

After travelling for a year with pals after uni, thankfully Stef loves her holidays and trips away as much as I do which has made us a good match since 2009. She’s the social one of us, always out with friends exploring the newest art exhibition, or local brewery.

She dreams the ideas, without her we’d be in the same 8-5 grind! She’s also the one who drives our fitness and exercise and looks out for us all.

Stef loves asian food, anything noodle based, and hates football!

Alicia is the oldest of our two, currently 11 and rapidly becoming a worldly tween-ager! She’s totally her own, independent person, with social skills off the scales. She plays the clarinet, enjoys learning Spanish and is quite a fish and daredevil on the water.

Lissie loves cake, and chocolate and desserts in general – a sweet tooth does not do her eating abilities justice! She is a machine and her favourite part of any holiday is knowing whether there is a buffet in the hotel!

She has so many special friends in her life from school, clubs and her travels, and adores her time with her grandparents – especially when travelling with them.

Nyle – our little Nyle-ito

Car obsessed and enthusiast for all things with wheels. He rode a bike at age 3, scootered before he was 2, loves to roller-blade, and will likely be driving by the age of 10, if he could!

Our stylish little dude loves an adventure and nothing more than adventuring outdoors, especially running on an empty beach. He’s the wildlife spotter in our family too and will happily chat away about his wildlife encounters for hours on end.

He’s a fan of rice, sausages and plain pasta and loves nothing more than a bit of a snuggle with his mums!

And the newest and 5th member to the Trowberry clan is Bethilda.

Bethilda is our Mazda Bongo camper van which has enabled us to continue our family travel adventure when we had to unexpectedly return to the UK during our family gap year.

You can learn more about Bethilda and our van life adventures here.

Family travel educates kids in ways the classroom can’t. Don’t get us wrong, after our worldschooling gap year the kids went back to school as we think there is value in both. But travel teaches new confidence, patience, resilience, insight and an outlook that they only got from exploring the world.

We aren’t overly wealthy but we do make financial decisions with travel in mind. We have worked whilst we have been travelling the world, and we know some cheap travel hacks which makes travel affordable for everyone. Because travel also doesn’t mean always going abroad. There is plenty of exploration to be done in your own country too. And we love nothing more than nights away in our Mazda Bongo, Bethilda or at a YHA.