Today’s post is from the wonderful author Tania McCartney. Her latest book, Beijing Tai Tai is a collection of shrewdly observed, heartfelt and humorous insights into Beijing expatriate life. Beijing Tai Tai ($24.99) is available from www.exislepublishing.com.au. You can read more about Tania at the end of this post, in which she shares how organisation [...]

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Back in January a reader asked the following on the Planning With Kids facebook page: I’ve got a question and maybe one of your ‘likers’ has some advice. My husband and I are travelling to Canada from Australia with our four kids (ages 6, 5, 4, 2.5) in a few months time. Any suggestions on [...]

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I had the most fantastic whirlwind trip to Malaysia over the last weekend. I went to celebrate the Nuffnang Asia Pacific Blog Awards. And as noted yesterday, I flew to Kuala Lumpur courtesy of AirAsiaX. AirAsia X is part of the low cost airline group Air Asia and they cover flights in and around Asia [...]

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I arrived back from Malaysia in the early hours of Monday morning. I have had some amazing opportunities this year via blogging for which I am grateful and attending the Nuffnang Asia Pacific Blog Awards was one of them. Planning With Kids wasn’t a finalist, but I was very proud to be in Kuala Lumpur [...]

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This post is sponsored by Nuffnang and Hong Kong Disneyland. Hong Kong Disneyland was a huge surprise to me. A surprise in I didn’t think I personally would enjoy it as much as I did. I knew the kids would love it, but not being really a theme park type of girl, I thought I [...]

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This holidays, thanks in part to the crew at Nuffnang, we are going to be taking a short family holiday to Hong Kong. This will be the first time we have travelled internationally with all the kids. Needless to say they are very, very excited. To get the kids ready for the trip, I have [...]

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