Thirty months, 14 countries and no hotel bills: meet a family who lived the dream
Alessia Horwich and Rachel Everett
Sunday April 23 2017, 12.01am, The Sunday Times
Adventure time: the family in Switzerland
HOWARD BRUNDETT
Family holidays are never really long enough. You get a week or two away, three if you're really lucky, then the daily grind of work, school, homework, music lessons and football practice begins again. But if you could chuck it all in permanently and take the kids away for years at a time, would you do it?
That's exactly what Clair and Dan Prince did. The British couple upped sticks from their home in Singapore and, over the next 2½ years, travelled to 14 countries, across four continents, with their four children. Sounds like something only the super-rich can afford to do, doesn't it? Here's the thing: they got most of their accommodation free by home-swapping, and they became experts at picking up the cheapest