Homeschool Family European Tour
March 06, 2014

World as your classroom? We take this literally, so planning our homeschool family European tour to explore more of the richness of our favorite continent, next on our unschool/worldschool agenda.
Can a homeschool family on a budget afford Europe and take advantage of the endless educatonal opportunities there? Absolutely, if one plans ahead, does slow travel and lives like a local.
HOMESCHOOL FAMILY TRAVEL ON A BUDGET

SECRETS TO TRAVELING EUROPE WITH KIDS
Having spent 5 years traveling Europe, on our world tour, we know it well, exploring more of Europe than most Europeans. Visiting Paris at 5 is very different than at 10 or 13, so always good reasons to return for a deeper experience on our ultimate famly adventure.

HOMESCHOOL AND TRAVEL
Homeschooling and travel are a perfect pair and going slow enriches families, is cheaper, more educational, better for language learning and prevents travel burnout. We learn more every time we go.

LIVING LIKE A LOCAL ON EUROPE VACATION
Visiting Barcelona 18 plus times in 8 years, (often for months at a time), with dear friends who are locals, makes it one of "homes" and a very different experience than doing a holiday or vacation week or getaway weekend there.

ADDING LANGUAGES WITH TRAVEL
Having spent several recent years based in Asia for Mandarin fluency, we are missing our Spanish "homes" and friends in Europe. Trilingual Mozart wants to add French to her languages and graduate to a fluent quadrilingual.

CAMPING IN EUROPE BEST FOR FAMILIES
Camping in Europe is fabulous, cheap and luxurious. We think buying our motorhome in Europe in 2005 was one of our wisest choices on our world tour and it makes a great home/vehicle/storage unit to explore with and keep in Europe.
TIPS FOR PLANNING A TRIP TO EUROPE
Planning a trip to Europe with kids? Here are some posts that might help you:
Best Family Travel Educational Tips
5 Best European Vacations
Benefits of Educational Travel
5 Best Reasons to Learn While Traveling
Books and World Travel
How to Raise a Multi-lingual Child
Kids and Friendships on the Road
How and Why to Raise a Global Kid
Ireland with Kids
Free Kid's Camps in France
Camping in London - Tips for Low Budget
Harry Potter Family Travel Tips
Travel Tips - Costa del Sol
How to winter in Spain
10 Best Costa Brava Secrets
7 Reasons to Travel to Cinque Terre
Venice for Kids
Opera in Verona
Italy with Kids
Norway Fjords on a Budget
Croatia Travel with Kids
Now, we’d love to hear from YOU:
Do you have questions about traveling with kids? Need some advice on homeschooling in Europe? What are some of your favorite tips for simplifying travel schooling with kids?
Please leave a note in the comments!
World as your classroom? We take this literally, so planning our homeschool family European tour to explore more of the richness of our favorite continent, next on our unschool/worldschool agenda.
Can a homeschool family on a budget afford Europe and take advantage of the endless educatonal opportunities there? Absolutely, if one plans ahead, does slow travel and lives like a local.
HOMESCHOOL FAMILY TRAVEL ON A BUDGET
SECRETS TO TRAVELING EUROPE WITH KIDS
Having spent 5 years traveling Europe, on our world tour, we know it well, exploring more of Europe than most Europeans. Visiting Paris at 5 is very different than at 10 or 13, so always good reasons to return for a deeper experience on our ultimate famly adventure.
HOMESCHOOL AND TRAVEL
Homeschooling and travel are a perfect pair and going slow enriches families, is cheaper, more educational, better for language learning and prevents travel burnout. We learn more every time we go.
LIVING LIKE A LOCAL ON EUROPE VACATION
Visiting Barcelona 18 plus times in 8 years, (often for months at a time), with dear friends who are locals, makes it one of "homes" and a very different experience than doing a holiday or vacation week or getaway weekend there.
ADDING LANGUAGES WITH TRAVEL
Having spent several recent years based in Asia for Mandarin fluency, we are missing our Spanish "homes" and friends in Europe. Trilingual Mozart wants to add French to her languages and graduate to a fluent quadrilingual.
CAMPING IN EUROPE BEST FOR FAMILIES
Camping in Europe is fabulous, cheap and luxurious. We think buying our motorhome in Europe in 2005 was one of our wisest choices on our world tour and it makes a great home/vehicle/storage unit to explore with and keep in Europe.
TIPS FOR PLANNING A TRIP TO EUROPE
Planning a trip to Europe with kids? Here are some posts that might help you:
Best Family Travel Educational Tips
5 Best European Vacations
Benefits of Educational Travel
5 Best Reasons to Learn While Traveling
Books and World Travel
How to Raise a Multi-lingual Child
Kids and Friendships on the Road
How and Why to Raise a Global Kid
Ireland with Kids
Free Kid's Camps in France
Camping in London - Tips for Low Budget
Harry Potter Family Travel Tips
Travel Tips - Costa del Sol
How to winter in Spain
10 Best Costa Brava Secrets
7 Reasons to Travel to Cinque Terre
Venice for Kids
Opera in Verona
Italy with Kids
Norway Fjords on a Budget
Croatia Travel with Kids
Now, we’d love to hear from YOU:
Do you have questions about traveling with kids? Need some advice on homeschooling in Europe? What are some of your favorite tips for simplifying travel schooling with kids?
Please leave a note in the comments!
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That is actually the coolest thing I ever heard of. Home schooling your kids all over the world in different cultures and new languages. Awesome!
Posted by: Steven Garrett | March 06, 2014 at 05:23 AM
Thanks Steven! It is a ball and actually easier than most people realize.
We've done our daughter's entire primary years like this and are happy to be starting her middle school and high school years as a world traveling family.
This also gives us a very low carbon footprint..so it is also a green way to live.
Posted by: Jeanne @soultravelers3 | March 06, 2014 at 08:09 AM
I see you are into green things Steven, so thought you'd get a kick out of the fact that we have a solar panel on our motorhome in Europe! ;)
The mass transit is so good in Europe that we are actually mostly parked and use our bicycles and mass transit the most.
We miss our outdoor living in nature too!
Posted by: Jeanne @soultravelers3 | March 06, 2014 at 08:12 AM
Happy to hear Mozart joined an orchestra. Did she audition, or did she just join? If she auditioned, great job! Hope to see you next week(:
Posted by: abluepatronus | March 06, 2014 at 01:17 PM
Thanks Abbie! She had to audition ( which we did not know ahead of time) and played the violin, piano and sang in Mandarin for the conductor and a small crowd.
We can talk about it next week!
Posted by: Jeanne @soultravelers3 | March 06, 2014 at 06:43 PM
This looks like quite the adventure! We're trying to settle down in our abode in the US, but as a fellow traveler raising my daughter bilingually, it's always interesting to read about other folks' experiences. Keep on adventuring!
Posted by: Mike | March 08, 2014 at 07:39 AM
Welcome to our blog Mike! I remember those early days, so I salute you in raising your baby in a bilingual way!
You might want to check out my series about how to raise a bilingual child as I gave lots fo tips about what has worked for us:
http://www.soultravelers3.com/2011/06/how-to-raise-a-bilingual-or-multi-lingual-child.html
http://www.soultravelers3.com/2012/11/multilingual-learning-reading-in-3-languages.html
Monolinguals can raise fluent as a native bilingual kids or even polyglots but it DOES take much effort and consistency for MANY years because kids can lose language as quickly as they pick them up.
So good luck and know it is so worth the effort!
Posted by: Jeanne @soultravelers3 | March 08, 2014 at 09:38 AM