In this episode we explore, beautiful waterfall days, a reflection on Sunday trading hours and why we've come to crave slow living the way the rest of Europe still protects, and behind the scenes of building a meditation library from a boiling-hot van. Plus: an update on Xanthe's health journey and what we've learned about diet and her nervous system along the way.

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Real talk for anyone wanting to visit Morocco or even take a van to Morocco: the truth about insurance, cash, and cost of living, why staying with local families beats any hotel, and the cultural etiquette around dress that too many tourists ignore. Ten honest, occasionally chaotic lessons from seven months on Moroccan roads: vanlife included.

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A snapped door hinge turns into a lesson in Moroccan mechanics, we'll genuinely miss hammams, and a stressful scramble for cash before the ferry home. Plus: a real conversation about Naomi's return to drinking after five years sober, and why we're both a bit tired of binary thinking: alternative living included.

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A visit to Crocodile Park raises more questions than answers, an unwanted car "donut" brings an old fear straight back to the nervous system, and the heart of this one is around how we navigated a genuinely difficult moment on a Moroccan beach with three children watching. Alternative living means the hard days too.

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The socialisation myth, properly busted. Naomi home educating mother and a qualified primary teacher (BEd (hons)), breaks down what home education actually looks like country by country. Where is home education easy, where is home educating a legal minefield, and what the UK's new deregistration law means for families like ours. Plus: why undoing school takes months, not days, and the line that stuck with us: childhood can't wait, but education can.

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The real answer to "what is nomestia", in our own words: the financial reality behind selling everything, what it actually cost us socially to take our children out of school, and why no van-lifer is ever truly "out of the system". This was never really about the van: it's about choosing alternative living on purpose, and being honest about how much harder real freedom is than it looks.

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1,000 downloads in, and a real reflection on choosing podcasting as a deliberately slow living medium over the instant-feedback treadmill of reels. Then: the great unsolved mystery of a mule wearing jeans, eight stray puppies providing exactly the serotonin hit we needed, and the ongoing (and slightly ridiculous) rabies jab saga.

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We designed our perfect day in Marrakech: the one we wish someone had handed us before we went, with and without our three children in tow. This isn't a highlight reel. It's a slow-living route through the quieter corners of the Medina, hidden gardens, local souks, and rooftop food, ending in the chaos of Jemaa el-Fnaa on purpose, not by accident. Alternative living doesn't stop for a city break, it just changes pace.

Places we cover: Le Jardin Secret, Jardin Majorelle, Ben Youssef Madrasa, the wool souk, a traditional hammam, Nomad, Café des Épices, and El Fenn's rooftop all in the centre of Marrakech. We also mention where to park your van if you are coming to Marrakech in a van.

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An overhyped, over-touristed Morrocan waterfall that left us uneasy about animal tourism, another round of rabies jabs after our cat picked a fight at an idyllic villa, and an eight-hour Ceuta border standoff that tested every ounce of our nervous system regulation. Real-time alternative living, friction included.

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A deep dive into Chris van Tulleken's Ultra-Processed People: what actually counts as Ultra Processed Foof (UPF), why "just exercise more" is a myth the sugar industry helped fund, and why the corporations behind it aren't really trying to feed you. Then: how we're applying it in real life, from watching our children's nervous systems shift with food, to the no-bake energy balls that have become our alternative living answer to snack aisles we can't trust.

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