My 3 year old has visited 32 countries AMA

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No doubt I'd get a load of shade about 'bragging' but that's not the intention. If anyone is interested in asking any questions about travelling regularly with a little own, feel free to ask.

I often travel just the two of us as his Dad can't get as much time off work as I do.

I honestly don't know. Ball park figure maybe £20k.

Thank you. That's actually a very good point about the remembering comments.

Will they remember these trips when they're older? Probably not.

Only a weekend and it was Bucharest. Of course the countryside would be incredible to see but it's not high on my list.

Yes we've revisited places. We've stayed at the same hotel in Marrakesh three times so far.

I do like trying new places but there are lots of places we'd happily return to.

Would you go on these holidays if you couldn’t tell anyone about them?

So? Do you not do Christmas, birthdays, days out to the zoo or the funfair until they're old enough to remember it? Just as well keep them in a grey room with nothing in it until they're about 5 if it doesn't matter because they won't remember!

How long are you spending in any of these places?

I am guessing that DH must be on a massive salary to enable you to not work and instead go on holiday roughly once a month.

I enjoy a holiday but this sounds like the opposite of quality time, forever rushing around to catch a plane or a ferry and being barely over the jetlag before returning home only to bounce off immediately on another holiday.

How do you feel spending a weekend at home with your son and husband with nowhere to go?

That's the fun age! That's were the tablet and snack box are my biggest friend. I also wrap up their toys to open and that gives a little more fun to them. Post it notes are a fun game too (strangely).

I actually have an Instagram and Tiktok account where we share our travel adventures. I also used to email my son (yes I set up an email address as he has a common name) and used to email an overview.

We do have a travel scrap book too.

That's so nice to look through the photos together.

Will your child remember you taking them on days out or reading books to them... probably not. But I'm sure you'll still do them because it's nice to do together.

I'm a bit old for Shein and would never dream of buying anything from Temu.
I have driven an EV for 7 years and also have an e-bike for short journeys.

Seriously though, you must understand the impact your lifestyle will be having on your little one's future?

What proportion of your air travel do you offset? You said 'some'?
Which schemes do you use?
Do you research your offsets to ensure they offer genuine additionality?

Such a funny response! We're not in the 1950s here!

I earn nearly double what my hubby earns.

I spend wonderful quality time with my husband. Not every trip is without him.

How bizarre, my reply has been hidden immediately. I wonder if it's because I'm not posting from the UK?
(I travelled here by EV by the way).

I've noticed some replies were hidden. I actually thought they might be trolls and Mumsnet has some special powers to hid them.

Carbon offsetting is very flawed.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/may/04/carbon-offsets-used-by-major-airlines-based-on-flawed-system-warn-experts

I was responding to your post quoting Shein & Temu, maybe that's dodgy.

Yup, it's because I mentioned two very cheap online retailers by name.

You know your DC will not remember any of it, right? So as far as they are concerned it's a complete waste of time, money and effort. You'll just have to do it all over again when they are older.

It’s funny because we are frequent travelers - dh works in multiple locations around the world (due to his job) and we’d three kids aged under four (now 5,4&1ish). Ryanair is one of my preferred airlines in Europe. Affordable. Their infant and children’s baggage policy is fair (two items per child) and although the no fills approach does involve more queuing - no more than any other budget airline. I find for what they offer, they offer it well.

Whereas several times flying long haul with BA and emirates - our prebooked seats have been changed, bassinets haven’t been available (compensated/apologized for but on a long haul flight I’d pack differently if I know in advance my 18 month old is sharing a seat with me!).

Can you share all 32 countries, and which were cruises/one-off, which were weekends/longer, etc? I'm invested in the thread now and want some travel inspiration.

You'll have used a buzzword, there's a few trolls on Mumsnet who frequently post nonsense about the same garbage so there's a few words where if you use them your post gets auto-hidden until it's approved by a mod. Happened to me the other day when I mentioned a certain type of digital currency. They're usually very quick checking them and un-hiding them!

(Also thank you for answering my questions OP! Now shamelessly stalking the thread for the nostalgia of travelling with my little one when she was actually little)

However I also wanted to raise the question about the quality of offsets, but Arabella has beaten me to it.

That’s the most stupid argument I’ve ever heard.