British Family Travels to 23 Countries & Claims World Schooling Gives Kids a Huge Edge 🌍

A British family ditched the rat race to travel to 23 countries and say world schooling has put their children "way ahead" of other kids. <br /><br />Nikki Collinson-Phenix, 47, had always dreamed of an "adventure" with her husband, Ian, 50, and their children - Laanii, 12, and Raif, six.<br /><br />She managed to convince Ian, a distance running coach, to travel Europe full time in a caravan and the family have now been on the road for three years and have visited 23 countries including Greece, Turkey and Spain.<br /><br />Nikki says world schooling both her children has been "powerful" and they are now "way ahead" of other kids their age in education.<br /><br />Nikki, a remote working consultant, originally from the Isle of Wight, said: "I think my children are way ahead.<br /><br />"Their confidence is through the roof.<br /><br />"I want them to be worldly wise.<br /><br />"I don't think it is good for kids to be sheltered. I feel they should see the realities of the world."<br /><br />Nikki and Ian had become fed up with "rigid" structure of their lives and decided to take the plunge to travel full-time with their kids.<br /><br />Nikki previously worked as a chiropractor and Ian as a prison officer.<br /><br />Nikki said: "Life before was like a hamster wheel.<br /><br />"Everything was to a rigid time.<br /><br />"It was everything we wanted to move away from.<br /><br />"I felt like life was rinse and repeat."<br /><br />The couple spent two years getting their finances in order and finding remote jobs before leaving the UK in September 2021.<br /><br />The family set off to France without a plan and have spent the last three years travelling around Europe.<br /><br />In making the choice to travel full-time, Nikki decided to homeschool her kids.<br /><br />She said: "We enrolled Laanii in an online school - following the British curriculum.<br /><br />"Some of what she does is home educated. She has a mix of books and online resources.<br /><br />"I had thought home educating was sub-standard but it's been so powerful."<br /><br />Nikki's son, Raif, is completely homeschooled but Nikki is looking to enrol him a similar online school.<br /><br />She said: "He's working at the level of an eight-year-old.<br /><br />"If he'd been in local school he possibly would have been quite disrupted.<br /><br />"Teachers are restricted with what they can teach."<br /><br />The kids spend the morning doing online learning before the family go out to explore.<br /><br />Nikki said: "We got to museums. We just go and have fun.<br /><br />"They don't see us as teachers. They see us as mum and dad.<br /><br />"They get global and cultural learning.<br /><br />"They have no fear to giving it a go.<br /><br />"They have a cultural awareness.<br /><br />"It's important for kids to see opportunities they have by seeing cultures who don't have so much.<br /><br />"It's experiences you don't have at school in the Isle of Wight."<br /><br />Nikki loved taking her daughter to Greece - as she expressed an interest in Greek mythology.<br /><br />She said: "She planned out where she wanted to go.<br /><br />"We went to see Olympus."<br /><br />Nikki also loved visiting Venice, Italy, for her son - who had seen the city in a cartoon.<br /><br />The family bought a renovation in Bulgaria in May 2023 - but still rent out