Patrick Hamilton Walsh, from Co Tyrone, and his Swedish spouse Johanna co-wrote The World’s Most Travelled Household: A Information to Straightforward, Reasonably priced and Secure World Travels with a Baby.

They grew to become mother and father two years in the past, however removed from curbing their wanderlust, it drove them to discover much more new locations with daughter Elsie-Mae, who visited 39 international locations earlier than she turned two.

Patrick (45), who grew up in Clady however now lives in Stockholm, runs a world consultancy referred to as Glotal however has additionally written greater than 20 books.

He travels the world along with his job, advising governments and the likes of Nokia and Microsoft on future tendencies.

Johanna is the chief monetary officer of a tech firm in Sweden that additionally has workplaces in Istanbul.

With each travelling extensively with their work, they set about making their enterprise journeys extra of a household affair.

Now they’re sharing the secrets and techniques of how they do it of their new e book.

Patrick mentioned: “This e book is thrilling as a result of it’s my spouse’s first e book. We wrote it collectively.

“All my books reply questions folks ask me, and this one is similar.

“Folks preserve asking how we handle to go to so many international locations. The e book solutions that and extra.

“Household holidays could be costly, however they needn’t be. It’s about figuring out when to go and the best way to e book.

“There’s numerous sensible recommendation on budget-friendly household journey, in addition to recommendations on travelling with a small baby.

“We’ve included issues like which bank card to make use of and the best way to benefit from journey rewards.

“We actually need to encourage folks to journey and present them that it’s potential to do it — we’re doing it fairly simply.”

When he was 16, Patrick wrote down three life targets: to turn out to be a Manchester United season ticket holder, to personal a supercar earlier than the age of 30 and to journey the world.

Having certified as a chartered accountant and taxation lawyer with PwC in Belfast and Grant Thornton in Dublin, he achieved the primary two targets by the age of 27, changing into an Outdated Trafford common and the proud proprietor of a Porsche.

Realising he nonetheless wanted to tick another merchandise off the listing, he later offered all the pieces he owned and went backpacking all over the world for seven years.

His adventures had been recorded in his first autobiographical e book, The Backpacker Who Bought His Supercar.

He defined: “Itemizing my targets modified my life. If you already know what you need, you’re going to get what you need. It’s superb how rapidly issues unfold whenever you put in a decided effort.

“Once I was 26, simply certified as an accountant and dealing with PwC, I left the workplace each Friday night time to fly to Manchester to go to Outdated Trafford.

“At 27, I used to be leaping in my Porsche to go to the airport to fly to Manchester at weekends.

“At 28, I offered all the pieces and went off travelling for seven years.

“I’ve travelled from the Arctic to the equator and pushed from London to Sydney, the place I met my spouse and settled in Stockholm.

“We’re each Guinness World File holders for the longest time on a fairground attraction.

“We spent 24 hours going spherical in circles on a theme park trip for leukaemia analysis, which was nothing after one in all our different journeys concerned being on a practice to Singapore for 3 and a half days.”

The household visited 26 international locations final yr, lots of which they took in throughout a cruise from the Caribbean to Southampton.

In addition they travelled from Italy to South Africa on one of many final boats to sail alongside the Suez Canal earlier than the current Houthi assaults.

Of all of the locations he has visited, Patrick cherished the Amazon essentially the most. Nonetheless on his wishlist are the rugged Faroe Islands, which he plans to go to later this yr.

Each penny made by means of the gross sales of his books, together with the most recent, is used to assist homeless folks.

“I’ve plenty of empathy for the homeless, and with all the cash from e book gross sales Johanna and I’d go into Primark or Penneys and purchase issues like new underwear, socks, coats and blankets and take it to them ourselves,” Patrick mentioned.

“Should you go into Dublin at 8am on a Sunday, it is extremely quiet and an excellent time to seek out homeless folks. We do it in Dublin and Belfast.

“It isn’t lots, but it surely means lots to those that are on the road.

“To everybody who has bought a e book, thanks.”

The World’s Most Travelled Household: A Information to Straightforward, Reasonably priced and Secure World Travels with a Baby is accessible on Amazon