About TravelMint
Who We Are
We’re a British family of four – two adults and two children aged three and five – who left our careers, our routines, and the UK in October 2025 to travel long-term with no fixed return date.
Before we left, Tom worked in senior HR positions for multiple NHS organisations and Clare worked in Financial Management Accounts, also for the NHS. Between us we had careers built around understanding how organisations work, how money moves, and how people make decisions under pressure. None of that prepared us for the practical complexity of actually doing this.
As we write this, we’re in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Before this we have been to Georgia, Thailand, Malaysia, and Sri Lanka (plus countless other countries across the globe on holidays over the years!). After this we head to Vietnam, then Sydney on a six-month tourist visa, and beyond that we’re not entirely sure yet, however, more of South East Asia or Europe could be next…
Why This Site Exists
When we were planning this trip, we found no shortage of travel inspiration. But what we struggled to find was clear, practical information about the financial and logistical side of long-term family travel – written by people who had actually done it, recently, with young children, from the UK.
Most of what we found was either too generic, too outdated, or written by people whose situation looked nothing like ours.
TravelMint is the site we wished had existed when we were planning. It covers the things that actually kept us up at night: what insurance provider to choose and what level of cover, how to manage money in different countries without blowing it in fees, what the different visa rules are (like the 90/180 day Schengen rule) really means in practice, and how to keep a family budget sustainable when you currently have no income coming in.
What We Know / What We Don’t
We’re not financial advisers, insurance brokers, or visa lawyers. And we’re not going to pretend otherwise.
What we are is a family who spent months researching these questions before leaving the UK, and who are now living the answers in real time. When we write about multi-currency bank accounts, we’re writing about accounts we have open on our phones right now as well as those we have genuinely researched and found would be a good fit for us. When we write about long-stay family insurance, we’re writing about a policy we’re currently travelling under. When we write about budgeting across Southeast Asia with a three and five year old, we’re writing about last Tuesday.
That’s the lens TravelMint is written through. Not theoretical. Not academic. Just honest, current, and as specific as we can make it.
What This Site Covers
TravelMint focuses on four areas:
Planning – the legal, logistical and administrative groundwork: visas, UK education law, what to do with your UK life before you leave.
Budgeting – understanding real costs by region and family size, managing daily burn rate, protecting yourself from the surprises that derail travel budgets.
Insurance – making sense of long-stay policies, what standard travel insurance doesn’t cover, and how to compare options without getting lost in the small print.
Connectivity – SIMs, eSIMs, data reliability by country, and how to stay connected when your kids need the wifi for school and you need it to work.
We don’t cover destination guides, hotel reviews, or travel inspiration. There are excellent sites that do that. We cover the stuff that comes before and underneath all of that.
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