Essentials South Africa

DON’T TELL ME I CAN’T GO BACKPACKING WITH A BABY

My son Ben was eight weeks old when he got on his first flight. That was when we relocated from  Johannesburg to Esslingen, Germany. My husband, Marthinus, got a job offer there and after years of trying to get pregnant, we decided to focus on another huge dream of ours: travel.

Just a month after Marthinus’ contract was signed, we were staring at a positive pregnancy test. We spent weeks deliberating about whether to stay or go,

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