We sold our house in May and moved abroad with three kids and the dog.

That is the short version. The longer one is that I'm Nicole, I plan international family trips for a living, and after years of sending other families off on theirs we decided to go and live in ours. Right now we are going country to country out of suitcases. I find the routes. Adam carrys the bags. Gavin notices the history. Jake spots the details nobody else does. Avilene draws everything. Poppy, our Cavapoo, collects things.

Everything in this shop came out of that.

The bingo cards started because my kids get restless. Museum queues, train rides, the long walk back to the hotel. I wanted something better than handing them a screen, so I made a card of things they would actually see in the city we were standing in. Real things. In Tokyo that is a manhole cover with cherry blossoms on it. In Rome it is SPQR carved into a bin. In Copenhagen it is the ladder you climb out on after you have jumped in the harbor with the locals.

Then the books followed, because a four year old and a twelve year old need very different things on the same trip.

Poppy's Discovery Deck is for the little ones. Cards you cut out, laminate and put on a binder ring, with country and city dividers so the collection stays sorted as it grows.

The Little Activity Book is a read-aloud story with something to do on every page.

The Explorer Journal is a sketchbook with prompts, for the age where a coloring page is an insult.

The History Hunt is built like a case file. It asks an eleven year old to tell evidence from inference and build their own theory about a city, and it ends with a certificate they earn.

Every one of them is made for a specific place, and they are meant to be collected. Another trip, another card, another case solved.

I am an ASTA Verified Travel Advisor and a proud affiliate of FG Luxury Travel and Favorite Grampy Travels. If you want to see where all of this comes from, the trip guides are at adventuresweseek.com.

Thank you for being here!

Nicole