Naomi learns to surf at 37 and busts the myth that you need to be a strong swimmer to start. We land in Imsouane, a windy, unpolished fishing-village-turned-surf-spot we picked deliberately over the more gentrified towns nearby, and untangle the genuinely maddening reality of insuring a van in Morocco. Alternative living, in real time, from the very beginning.

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Our first Fireside guests: Kate and Roger, who sold their Lancashire home in October and turned six years of van holidays into full-time life on the road with their son, Jack. An honest, unpolished conversation, background noise and all, about what alternative living actually costs to choose, and what it gives back. Plus: their favourite wild van park-ups, from Scotland to Morocco.

Links:

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First Park 4 Night link

Second Park 4 Night link

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Taghazout is basically Margate transplanted to Morocco but with good surf, a young crowd. Naomi's surf lessons are finally clicking. We overdose on dates until a very unwelcome discovery. And we sit with the strange feeling of already being deep into a big adventure. Slow travel, honestly, warts and all.

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After reading Nir Eyal's Indistractable, we turn the question on ourselves: are screens actually the problem, or are we outsourcing blame to avoid our own choices? Then, mid-recording, our daughter walks over, sets her own screen timer, and explains exactly why: a genuinely unscripted moment that says more about nervous system regulation than any parenting book could. Alternative living means questioning the easy narrative, screens included.

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From snow in the Atlas Mountains (a first for the twins) to a genuine two-day, 60mph sandstorm on the edge of the Sahara that had half the campsite fleeing: the honest story of chasing winter sun from Dover to Morocco, sand in every crevice of the van included. Real-time alternative living, exactly as messy as that sounds.

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Why did we choose home education? This one starts with Ali's own story: sent to boarding school at seven, and the Sunday-night dread that came with it every single week. We talk through both of our very different schooling experiences, and how they've quietly shaped the choice we've made for our own children. Alternative living, built from what we saw could have been different.

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