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PARENT PAGES DAUGHTER ADVENTURES MOTHER AND


Many mothers dream of the day when a holiday can be a unique bonding experience with a daughter. For most parents that may be a spa weekend or a shopping trip to New York but for Kingston-based Catherine Edsell, that trip is an expedition to Namibia to see elephants. And she isn’t doing it alone. She is taking ten pairs of mothers and daughters with her.


The Mother & Daughter Adventure sets off next April. And while this is the prototype for this expedition, it is just the latest step in a long journey for expedition leader Catherine.


Catherine’s journey started with a card sent to her by her brother. ‘I wanted to go out and change the world but I couldn’t find a babysitter’. It was meant to be a joke but became the catalyst for a completely unexpected way.


Encouraged to explore


As a child Catherine was encouraged to explore the world and that adventurous attitude infects everything that she does


as an adult. She is full of ‘glass half full positivity’. Her conversation is peppered with phrases such as “You only regret what you don’t do”. What is clear is that these aren’t just words to Catherine, she really does live her life this way.


Inspired by intrepid explorers in her family, she became an expedition leader working in


You only regret what you don’t do


remote areas of Indonesia. But when she had a family of her own, she had to leave expeditions behind for a while.


It was her experience as a stay at home mother that gave Catherine the inspiration for her trips. She reflected on the differences for mothers in remote communities and leafy South West London.


“When you go overseas, you see communities where the women strap their babies to their back, and just carry on” explains Catherine. “That doesn’t happen here.”


She had seen villages where mothers live and work together, cook shared meals and look after each other’s children. It is this community which holds us


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