The Let’s go Mum family were interviewed by ABC Canberra’s Mikel Simic about where to go inland and why when on an Australian family holiday!

The show was nationally broadcast on ABC National Digital.

Barbara’s family holiday recommendations include:

• Inland road trips are often the most adventurous
• Don’t travel with a deadline – stop where you like
• Escape the summer exodus to the coast
• Less crowds and often cheaper
• It’s not just about the destination, but the journey to get there
• Discover and learn together

The Let’s go Mum kids Brooke and Samantha loved chatting to Mikel about a kid’s holiday and travel perspective, how they do their home schooling on the road, and what they learn along the way.

The kids’ road-trip fun recommendations include:

• Making new friends along the way at playground stops
• Do homeschool work in between epic fun activities
• Integrate school learning with real-life learning, such as the Ned Kelly trail

You can listen to our Australian family travel road trip recommendations interview on ABC Radio National here.

Find out more about ABC Canberra at their official website here.

Do you have any favourite inland holiday or road-trip tips? Share them in the comments below!

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We’re excited to tell you that we’re in the latest issue of Holidays With Kids magazine!

Our 8-page feature – An Insider’s Guide To Canberra – is packed full of ideas for family activities and fun in the Nation’s Capital! Canberra is a great destination for families, with lots to do with kids at ever turn – or roundabout! Plus there are lots of glossy photos to inspire your own trip, of course!

You can pick up your own copy of this essential Aussie parent must-have magazine at your newsagent, or never miss an issue, and subscribe at the Holidays With Kids official website here!

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The Let’s go Mum family appeared on WIN News today – of course we’re always up for a chat about our family travel blog and what we’ve been up to.

We were delighted to chat with Emma Groves from WIN TV Canberra all about different summer school holiday boredom busters for the family – many of which are low-cost, or free!

Barbara’s recommendations include:

• Local councils often host free school holiday events
• Camping for adventure
• Family resorts can offer a beach holiday alternative
• Check out your local museums

The Let’s go Mum kids Brooke and Samantha have quite a few interviews under their belts by now, and on this occasion Brooke (13) was also given the opportunity for her very own spot to recommend her summer holiday tips to the watching kids. Needless to say, Brooke leapt at the chance!

Brooke’s recommendations include turning off the TV and:

• Going for a walk
• Visiting a Nature Park
• Visiting a local park/playground

Play the video to below to watch our 2019 WIN News interview…

Watch it on the WIN TV Facebook Page here

Find out more about WIN News at their official website here.

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The Let’s go Mum family appeared on TV on the weekend. This was our third TV appearance so far this year, and we are always so grateful to have such amazing opportunities to share our adventures – and of course chat about our family travel blog!

We were delighted to chat with the team on the Seven Network Weekend Sunrise show on Saturday morning, all about the Let’s go Mum travel blog, holidays – and of course our favourite destinations!

The Let’s go Mum kids Brooke and Samantha have done quite a few radio and phone interviews by now, however this was their very-first TV interview!

The kids absolutely loved being on TV – probably helped along by the fact that they were so well looked after by everyone at Weekend Sunrise.

What a great first TV experience this was for the girls!

Play the video to below to watch our Sunrise interview…

Watch it on Sunrise here

Find out more about the Seven Network TV show Weekend Sunrise at their official website here.

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In September we went for a road trip around Tasmania and caught the Spirit of Tasmania ferry from Devonport across Bass Strait and back to the Australian mainland.

This video is a quick guide to what it is actually like to drive your car onboard the Spirit of Tasmania.

Driving onboard is actually very quick and easy, and once parked you simply stroll right in to the ship. There is even a special area for pets to travel! Grab your overnight bag and go and relax for the trip across Bass Strait, which takes around eight hours. On board this deluxe ship, it’s a really enjoyable journey.

Tip:  It may be wise to leave your car unlocked, so that your car alarm isn’t set off by the movement of the ship. Otherwise, you may find yourself coming back to a car with a flat battery when it’s time to disembark!

To see the stunning hotels and locations we stayed in during our Tasmania road trip, read our Top 5 Amazing Tasmania Hotels blog here

Watch our video of how to drive onto the Spirit of Tasmania

Play the video to below to watch us boarding the Spirit of Tasmania…

Watch it on YouTube here

Have you ever sailed on the Spirit of Tasmania? Did you take your family car? Tell us in the comments below!

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In September we went for a road trip around Tasmania – and got caught in a major cold-snap blizzard!

We had been staying in the beautiful port town of Strahan after touring the Gordon River, and were headed next for Hobart. We were driving along the Lyell Highway, climbing up out of Queenstown when it started to snow, and it continued as we made our way through the mountains of the World Heritage Franklin-Gordon Wild Rivers National Park. This is a beautiful drive at any time, but it is also one of the slower major routes in Tasmania and requires careful driving. Our whole journey that day took an epic 8 hours (with breaks) for 300kms – usually this trip takes around 5 hours.

This trip was the girl’s first experience of real snow, and they had an absolute ball, asking me to stop so they could leap out to “feel” the snow. Brooke was so excited that she forgot to put her shoes on at first, and went bare-foot for her very first snowball fight!

Going to the Tasmania West Coast? Get a 4WD hire car!

We saw no other vehicles for hours that day, and I had never driven through snow before. Thankfully we had been upgraded by Budget hire car in Hobart. We had originally booked a medium car, and we were upgraded to a 4WD hire car for free – and this was a very lucky thing too, in hindsight! In our big 4WD, we were warm, safe and secure driving through some pretty heavy blizzard conditions. If you’re travelling in Tasmania in the winter/spring months on the West Coast, I would highly recommend that you consider a 4WD. I suspect this was also the reason we saw next to no other vehicles on the road that day – the smaller hire cars just couldn’t cope with that much snow over the road – at times we could barely see the road!

Even though conditions were challenging, the incredible beauty we witnessed made it so worthwhile. We later learned at the first roadhouse we came to after descending from the mountains, that even the logging trucks had halted going back up into the mountains that day!

But really, only video and photos can tell the story, so here is a vlog record of what we saw – and it was just amazing!

To see the great hotels and locations we stayed in during our Tasmania circumnavigation road trip, read our Top 5 Amazing Tasmania Hotels blog here

Watch the video of our Strahan to Hobart national park blizzard trip

Play the video to below to watch our blizzard road trip…

Watch it on YouTube here

Have you ever been to the Franklin-Gordon Wild Rivers National Park? Tell us in the comments below!

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Play the video to below to watch…

Watch it on Nine News here

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