What an amazing adventure trip man!
So you are traveling allong the northern sea, visiting inhospitable sites?
It is a dream for me to do so!!! Hope one day, when my children will be older, I am going to do something similar. I'm jealous!!!
What an amazing adventure trip man!
So you are traveling allong the northern sea, visiting inhospitable sites?
It is a dream for me to do so!!! Hope one day, when my children will be older, I am going to do something similar. I'm jealous!!!
No, I've had one week with night duties and the kids had one week off from school - so I've tried filling the week with daytime activities, including visits to local island nearby Oslo :-) I'm quite stuck in Oslo, it seems like.
Understood, so you are going with all the "army" there, kids included... You are my hero... How old are they?
Well ... I'm trying, and sometimes we have fantastic experiences together, but I sometimes I just give up, sometimes I consider it a great success if I can get one of the children with me on activities.
The oldest is 13, and wants nothing but playing computer games. I can't force him and I can't overtell him, he does what he wants, and that's not boat life - "internet is too slow" he says. At least I managed to get him to Korketrekkeren Wednesday. Previous summer we sailed around Denmark, and one time at the west coast he was complaining that he was fed up with all the waves and rather wanted to continue by bike. So we found a harbour, we threw him out together with the bike, and met him again at the next harbour :-)
The two youngest and my wife were all together on the boat from Thursday to Friday, at Ytre Vassholmen, but I failed engaging the rest of the family, they were too happy staying in the boat playing computer games and watching films, didn't care getting out walking with me :-( My wife thought it was a bit too harsh sleeping in 1C in the boat, so she left with my 4 yrs old daughter and I was alone with my middle son, 7 years old.
I did manage to get him out for some few short walks Friday, but not much really - and then he had an accident, his trouser got wet, and he couldn't join for more walks that day.
Saturday after school I was alone - well, I can say I went exploring a bit first so that I know what to do when coming back with the kids later.
Yeah... I can imagine, the older they are, the harder it is to take them for a walk, specially now that they have internet, computers, nintendo and the like...
I have two children, my daughter is 11 and my son 7... I'm keeping insisting to do hiking, sports, camping and walks but I recognise is getting more and more difficult.
I'm sure they will appreciate in the future all our efforts for discovering the wold.
Keep posting great content dude!
Absolutely - I think it's important for them to get a bit out and explore the world. At least I'm quite happy that he took initiative to go biking in Denmark - even though he didn't talk much of it I'm sure it must have been an experience for life, for the first time navigating completely alone in a foreign country. Hm. Maybe not the first time. He's been getting lost, several times - first time he was maybe two or three years old, and we lost him at the Tiananmen Square - he saw an ice cream booth, we didn't pay attention for some few seconds and .... gone in the crowd! We spent more than an hour searching for him - we were terrified!
More recently, some few years ago on our first visit to Copenhagen, he just got angry and left us, and went back to the boat. We had just been biking from Refshaleøen to the mermaid, he biking behind following us. We estimated the probability that he would find the way back to the boat to be near zero. We were terrified - lost him in Copenhagen! Probably his phone was left behind charging at the boat, or it wouldn't have been much of a problem. We went to the police to report the loss, but there was a big queue outside the police station. Finally I went back to the boat while my wife was still queuing up for the police ... and guess what, he had found the way back to the boat perfectly on his own! Amazing.