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KENYA for kids A


James Dunford Wood kicks off an occasional series: how to show your children the world without it costing the earth


s children grow older, an opportunity presents itself for adventure. Experience has taught me that seven – or thereabouts – is the watershed.


From then on they become like sponges, and as parents I reckon we have about eight prime years of showing a child some of the wonders of the world. Let’s face it, from their mid-teens they don’t want to travel with us anymore. It’s not the “wonders”, but us who are boring. So where, in an ideal world, would you take them? We’ve all got our wish lists but how affordable are they? Last year, when my youngest turned seven, my wife, Melissa and I drew up a plan of action, a tick list and then sat down to work out how we could afford to show our children the world without it costing the earth. We wanted to take our four children – Ellie 12, Rosie, 12, Tilly, 10 and Joe, 7 – on a six-week mega trip. Te idea was to show them a mix of the wonders of nature, as well as man. Melissa was nervous about our first stop,


Kenya. Te only other safari I had taken her on, in the Selous in Tanzania, had her up all night terrified by the sound of the


✏ 66 FirstEleven Autumn 2011 www.firstelevenmagazine.co.uk


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