“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware.”
Michael Buber
I really hope so!….

As you may, or may not be aware, Ireland and I are off on our next adventure….whoa!
Spain, Morocco, Portugal, France and the UK feature this time

and we leave tomorrow….

Should you wish to know detail, click on these:
http://theentrepreneurialmother.com.au/docs/2009_Portugal_France_Brussels_and_UK_itinerary.pdf
http://theentrepreneurialmother.com.au/docs/2009_Spain_and_Morocco_itinerary.pdf

Should you wish to follow our escapades, check into theEM blog on a regular basis:
http://www.theentrepreneurialmother.com.au/blog
as I will be updating it as we go along.
Feel free to leave comments… nice ones that is!

“The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.”
St Augustine

I really like this top 10, and they still work equally well when travelling with children. This is my comment which I added to this post, in reponse to the question…”The best thing you’ve learnt while travelling?”

The best thing I’ve learnt about travelling?…has to involve children.

My life as a traveller can be split into two, pre-daughter and post-daughter. What I’ve learnt about that is this; they are equally as exciting and rewarding, they are also completely different.

I made a decision early on that my adventurous life was not going to cease just because a little bundle of joy made an unexpected entrance. She is now 11 years old and has been to more countries than I had been before she arrived! Well not quite, but close enough.

Do NOT stop travelling once you’re a parent. Experience the different ways the same people, the same places even, will react to you and little one, and love it all over again. Doors open for you (in more ways than one!) and bring out a richness in folk that you had no idea about.

Maybe you can’t go as often as you’re now financing two! but go anyway. All of you, and all of those you meet, are much better off for the experience.
Happy adventuring!

OzSee; OzDo; OzLearn
“education as travel, travel as education”…

Improvements in business partnership arrangements between Indigenous enterprises and Australian corporates could significantly enhance the economic development of Indigenous communities, particularly those in remote areas. This desire to enrich the relationships in communities by encouraging a strong role for new organisations and approaches is a major opportunity for Australia.
(Australia 2020 Summit report)

What?
As members of the SolvePoverty Group Alliance, OzSee and Reho Travel wish to bring together a network of multicultural, multi-age student entrepreneurs around Australia.

Why?
In response to the Australia 2020 Summit, this is about empowering students to find ways to creatively respond to opportunities in the indigenous communities, by introducing them to the communities in the first instance.

Link thousands of young Australians to communities through support for school twinning, exchange programs, mentoring, in country and community-based learning programs.
(Australia 2020 Summit report)

How?
By partnering with Reho Travel to conduct a pilot familiarisation tour of outback Australia by a multi-cultural, multi-age group of students selected from school and Universities around the country.

Benefits?
The selected students will form the founder group of an expanding Australia-wide network of youth entrepreneurs, with the first step being to get a snapshot of what it is we need to be thinking about…

And for the communities, they benefit economically by getting access to, and introducing visitors to our unique country.

Following the historic and significant apology, a new national dialogue is required. This new form of engagement will shape Australia’s global identity, securing a place for Aboriginal culture and identity in the Australian story.
(Australia 2020 Summit report)

So think about putting students school holidays to good use,
(and in some instances, even relieving us parents of the need to know what to do over the school holidays!)…

WHAT NEXT?
Go to http://www.rehotravel.com/ozsee, read all about it and secure your place

P.S. Ongoing tours will be approx. 10 days (and dates can be moved to fit in with your school holidays) so if you want input into what the tours should look like, then please do reply and tell me all about your views?

PPS If you have friends or family or students who are interested in this, you will need to act fast.