Why did we decide to start writing a BLOG? In a word, Lynne (mummy)! Lynne often has hair-brained ideas, some come to fruition, and others don’t, but the ‘lets start writing about our travels’ actually began as an idea to write a BLOG from a child’s perspective. I’m being honest, as the ‘Boss’ of the family (I say Boss as I wear the trousers, but it’s Lynne that picks and buys them), I was a little skeptical about this idea, I mean, who would read it? What do we have to offer the blogging world that isn’t already available on the WWW? And to be honest, the answer may nothing and no one, but, here we are, The Callaghan’s, writing about our travels in a BLOG.
Rather than doing the whole BLOG from a child’s perspective thing, we are going to have a section at the end of each post where our little ladies can give their own view of the holiday or coffee shop or day out etc, provided they were there of course! Everyone knows children get bored after 10 minutes of homework, let alone writing a lengthy travel BLOG – so, we’ll see how it goes!
As a family we normally take a few weekend breaks each year and more often than not, either 2 x 2 week holidays or a longer 3 week holiday which often takes in a couple of locations. For example; our 2017 annual trip clocked up 2950 miles by car: Omagh-Dublin-Holyhead-Rochester-Folkestone-Calais-Luxembourg-Switzerland-Italy and all the way back again. A lot of hours spent in the car, and countless cries of ‘are we nearly there yet’, but thankfully with no major incidents, arguments or other!
Our BLOG and writing style might not be for everyone, sure, we’re just ‘normal’ people with zero writing experience – but, somehow you’ve landed here and we hope that you will find something of interest in our BLOG. And just a quick note to say that all of the content, whether on this BLOG or on our respective Social Media sites, will be monitored by myself and Lynne – we won’t tolerate any kind of abuse, the world doesn’t need it and nor do we.
Enjoy our BLOG. If you can travel, do it, and add your own unique footprint to the world, but remember…leave the wonderful world as you find it, it’s precious and there’s only one of them, so look after it!
Andrew, Lynne, Lily-Belle and Matilda x