After 12 months travelling around the world with kids we are back in our home town, Melbourne, Australia.
It has been a crazy and wonderful adventure.
So to celebrate our re-entry into Melbourne we have collated some (hopefully) interesting statistics about our family gap year.
The stats: 2017
Number of countries visited: 30
Places we have slept the night: 155
Continents traveled: 4
Total kilometres traveled: Over 125,000 kms (78,000 miles)
Kilometres traveled overland: 32,000 kms (20,000 miles)
Planes
Flights taken: 23 (on 10 different airlines)
Number of times other people clapped on landing: 2 (what is it with clapping on landing??)
Longest continuous flight: 14 hours – San Francisco to Taipei.
Wheels
Car rentals: 9
Campervans: 3 (Botswana, Europe and West Coast USA)
Longest drive in one day: 12 hrs, 750km. From Motovun, Croatia to Ventimiglia, Italy in our trusty campervan, Sunny.
Kids’ favourite soundtrack: Sound of Music. To clarify, we were in Austria. It seemed fitting. I am pretty sure I know all of the words now.
Longest border crossing: 2hrs 40 min by car from Bosnia to Croatia
Boats
Cruises: 1 in Halong Bay, Vietnam
Ferries: 14 including 2 overnight
Number of vomits on a boat: 1 (amazing the number is so small really!)
