As one of our RAOKs this year we've summarised many of the low or no-cost ideas we've written about in our RAOK & Volunteering posts into a:
ONE-PAGE LIST for you to download (pdf).
We hope you are inspired and would love to hear what you did.
A Kiwi family of 7 on a mission to lead an extraordinary life exploring our world.
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A Kiwi family of 7 on a mission to lead an extraordinary life exploring our world, starting with New Zealand.
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ELECTRA: intelligent, organised, practical, creative & strong; mum, wife and person.
WANTS TO VISIT: Germany, Portugal, Spain, & France, Italy, Greece, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, USA, Andorra, Bulgaria, Thailand, Phillipines and Venezuela for starters.
As one of our RAOKs this year we've summarised many of the low or no-cost ideas we've written about in our RAOK & Volunteering posts into a:
ONE-PAGE LIST for you to download (pdf).
We hope you are inspired and would love to hear what you did.
What can you do, with what you've got, where you are, for others?
In researching air fares, bus fares, accommodation and everything else that goes with travel you realise there is nothing standard about being a child, so it may seem futile to be writing about it. However it is something valuable to know especially if you are in the budgeting phase of your journey. There will be other 'hidden' costs, or those totally foreign to you, that being exact with what you can, will help rein in any contingency blow-out.
So here are a few GUIDELINES:
Airlines generally charge full fare at 12 years of age, discounted between 2 and 12, and free if under 2 and the child can be accommodated on a parent's lap.
In New Zealand 16 years old is the age most companies charge as an adult. Family tickets are 2 adults and 2 children only. Under fives (pre-schoolers) are mostly free.
Austria is über cool, allowing child prices under 19 years of age (ie from 0 - 18 inclusive).
Belgium looks upon children under 6 as free, and children under 18 as portioned.
Iceland generally designates children to be under 6 if making a distinction at all, and doesn't allow family tickets - you pay for each person.
Germany are great for their family tickets, normally without limit on the number of children that are included and often allowing for these to be grand-children as well (German Rail). Although the age in many commercial institutions is under 14 or 16 years, children can get the same concession up to 18 years and/or if they carry a student ID (even in tertiary). There are also concessions for the disabled and those over 65 years old.
HOW TO STRETCH YOUR BUDGET:
This last fortnight we have donated 51 educational books and materials to local families; and have finished 93 newborn hats to give away via local midwives.
The hats have been in progress for some time but the method of construction meant that I needed a sewing machine with 3-step zig-zag (which Vega's machine doesn't have) to finish them off. So in a to-do basket they sat until a perfect stranger on Facebook lent me her new machine.
That's kindness lending to more kindness, for sure!
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