About us
Hi, we’re Babs and Kath. And we’ve been figuring this out as we go.
We’re a Belgian couple who has been travelling together since we were teenagers. Long before kids, we spent six months making our way through South America, from Brazil all the way down to Patagonia and back up through Ecuador and the Galápagos. Travel has always been part of who we are.
Then we had kids. And things got more interesting.
Our eldest, N., is now 10. Our youngest is 4. Between the four of us, we navigate autism, ADHD (both inattentive and hyperactive), and all the joy and unpredictability that comes with that. We’ve travelled to Cape Verde, Malaysia, Colombia, Croatia, Cuba, France, Thailand, and Greece as a family, and we’ve learned an enormous amount along the way, mostly by doing things wrong first.
The honest truth is that it’s only in the last few years that we’ve really understood our family. Reading up on neurodivergence, recognising it in our children, and then recognising it in ourselves too. It reframed a lot. The trips that were hard, the moments that felt like failures, the things we now plan for that we didn’t used to think about at all.
That’s what this site is about. Not perfectly curated travel content, but real, practical guidance for families who travel the way we do: with kids who need predictability, who can get overwhelmed, who have big feelings in big places, and who also have the most wonderful time when things go well.
We write about what travel actually looks like for a neurodivergent family. What to expect, what to prepare for, and what makes the difference between a trip that works and one that doesn’t.
If that sounds like your family too, you’re in the right place.
Babs
I’m the main writer on this site and the one most likely to be found with a book in one hand and a travel itinerary in the other. I grew up travelling with my family, which planted the seed early, and I’ve never really stopped. For years I worked as a teacher, teaching Dutch as a second language to adults, which I loved. But eventually I wanted more flexibility, more adventures, and more time to actually write about them. So in 2019 I became a full-time travel blogger, which still feels like a slightly unbelievable thing to be able to say.
Over the last few years I’ve also done a deep dive into neurodivergence, partly for our kids and partly because it turned out there was quite a bit to discover about myself too. It’s shaped how I write and what I write about. I’m less interested in making travel look effortless and more interested in making it feel genuinely manageable for families who don’t fit the standard mould.
Kath
Kath is the other half of this operation and, honestly, the reason a lot of things actually get done. She’s a natural problem solver who works best with her hands: give her a piece of wood and she’ll make something beautiful out of it. She’s been craving to see the world for as long as I’ve known her and has a particular love for slow travel, really settling into a place rather than rushing through it.
Kath is also deeply passionate about the environment and doing right by the world, which feeds into how we travel as a family. She hates being photographed, which is why you’ll mostly see the back of her head in our pictures.
N., our eldest (10)
N. has been travelling with us since she was tiny and has shaped this blog more than she probably realises. She’s the reason we started thinking more carefully about sensory environments, predictability, and what it actually means to have a good day out.
She’s caring, curious, and has very strong opinions about swimming pools. Travelling with her has taught us most of what we know about making trips work for neurodivergent kids, and she continues to teach us something new on every trip.
O., our youngest (4)
Our youngest joined the travel crew more recently and has already racked up an impressive number of stamps. At four, they bring a completely different energy to travelling: everything is new, everything is exciting, and the smallest things, a puddle, a pigeon, a revolving door, can be the highlight of the day. Travelling with a four-year-old after already having navigated the toddler years once before means we come prepared, and we share all of that here too.
Why we do this
We’re not experts in the clinical sense. We don’t have therapy practices or medical degrees. What we have is a family that has lived this, read widely, travelled extensively with neurodivergent children, and learned a huge amount the hard way.
We believe that neurodivergent families deserve travel content that actually reflects their reality. Not watered-down advice, not a list of “just be flexible” tips, but honest, specific, practical guidance that helps you walk into a trip feeling prepared rather than anxious.
Every destination we cover, every guide we write, comes from that place. What worked for us, what didn’t, and what we wish we’d known before we got there.
We hope it helps.