Have you ever been overwhelmed with the amount of choices and information out there regarding your travel options? We certainly have been, whether it's searching flight deals, car hire options, arranging homeswaps, airbnb, or other accommodation! It's exhausting and seems like such a gargantuan task when all you want to do is organise a holiday!

I was recently contacted by Reviews.com who informed of their service, which is pretty cool! They have done the hard yards of researching the best travel sites to help you plan your trip and asked me if I would be kind enough to share it with you here.

Enter Reviews.com 

Whether you're planning an overseas vacation or a weekend road-trip, the best travel site will help you find the right flights, rentals, and hotels at reasonable rates. To find the best, we looked for websites which could search for a variety of bookings, and tracked prices and user experiences to find which sites delivered the best services at the best prices. 

Price is the undisputed king in the travel world. So you might be surprised to learn that since more than 95 percent of the online travel marketplace is(Expedia and Priceline)!

The full article is here and I urge you to spend 2 minutes reading it to find out who the best Travel site is to use for your particular need. It could save you hours of research and get you the best deals!

If you want to learn more about homeswapping and how that can also save you tons of cash then check out our top tips and learn how we travelled for 2.5 years via the sharing economy! 

This brand new page has been created purely because of a most welcome and lovely approach from the wonderful team at education.com, a website  dedicated to empowering parents and teachers to help their children build essential skills!

They offered to guest post on the blog so as to reach more homeschoolers and world travellers who are schooling on the road. I hope you enjoy the activity they have sent us and please make sure to check them out for more games and activities to help your child!
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Here is Shannon's quick explanation of how to play a new card game with your little ones to help them with simple addition.

MAKING 14 
Your child will quickly learn how to add up to sums of 14 with a game they can play all by themselves. Using a deck of cards and their knowledge of addition, they will strive to lower their score each and every time they play.

What You Need:

Deck of cards with the face cards (jacks, queens, and kings) removed

What You Do:

1. Play the first round with your child to make sure they understand the game. Ask them to start by shuffling the deck.
2. Tell them that for the purposes of the game aces = 1.
3. Have them deal out all 40 cards face up into 13 separate piles of 4 cards each.
4. Ask them to turn over the piles, one at a time, and start searching out all of the different combinations of cards that add up to equal 14.
5. Have them play until there are no more moves possible.
6. Count the cards that remain and tally up their score for the round. The lower the score, the better.
7. Have them play again and try to beat their score. With enough practice, they might be able to use all of the cards and get a perfect score of 0!
   
   A picture of an example is outlined below.
   
   ​We hope you enjoy the game and hope to see you in our community at www.education.com for loads more fun ideas!