Welcome to this season's Family Travel Special. Having been thrust into the world of family travel a couple of years with the arrival of my daughter, I quickly realised that it’s an area that there could be a lot more helpful information about, it’s a huge market and I was scouring the internet for destinations and hotels that weren’t your typical all inclusive family resorts, and I really struggled. So I decided to integrate these into the travel diaries podcast lineup, to hopefully give you some travel inspiration, destination ideas, tips and tricks for travelling with children.
And today, I’m joined by a very special guest who knows a thing or two about that. Olivia Hammond and I first met in our antenatal bump and baby group in South West London, and we were very lucky, we had such a lovely group and we became friends. When her gorgeous boy, Beau, arrived in November 2022, Olivia began documenting her daily life and travels on TikTok and Instagram, and almost immediately her honest and relatable videos led her to become one of the uk’s leading content creators in her field, with videos amassing hundreds of millions of views. It has been an astonishingly fast ascent to mum-fluencer stardom, but it’s no surprise to me because I think everyone can relate to her videos, they’re so watchable.
So when thinking about who would be a good guest for this episode, Olivia was the obvious choice. She has been far more intrepid than me when it comes to travelling as a family. You’ll hear she flew to the other side of the world when Beau was just a month old, she’s flown with him countless times to Europe, the Caribbean, taken him travelling all around Sri Lanka and even camped with him at Glastonbury. And now, since we recorded this episode, beau has a beautiful little sister, called Lila, and Lila is about to embark on her first trip abroad, at only a few weeks old too.
I hope this episode shows you that whatever age or stage, travel is not off limits with a family.
Olivia's Destination Recap:
- Costa Rica
- Algarve, Portugal
Holly:
- Vila Vita Parc, Algarve, Portugal
Olivia
- Sigiriya, Sri Lanka
- Kandy, Sri Lanka
- Ella, Sri Lanka
- Udawalawa, Sri Lanka
- Hiriketiya, Sri Lanka
- Antonio’s, Algarve, Portugal
- Sr Frango’s, Algarve, Portugal
- Olhão, Algarve, Portugal
- Ilha do Farol, Algarve, Portugal
- Ilha Deserta, Algarve, Portugal
- Ilha Armona, Algarve, Portugal
- Fuerteventura, Spain
- Cape Town, South Africa
- Nicaragua
You can follow all of Olivia’s adventures on her Instagram which is Olivia_Hammond and her TikTok is OliviaClaireM.
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