Travelling With - Rose Carlyle

The adventurer, lawyer and author on sailing across the Indian Ocean, swimming with sharks, and lessons learnt along the way.

- Jordan Kretchmer

I hadn’t done that much travelling before I had children. I didn’t leave New Zealand until I was 15. I started practising law at 21 and had my first child at 26. When I had my third child, she was quite unwell and I stayed at home for a while, and then we started going on these sailing trips. We realised it was such a great way to give both ourselves and our children a way to see the world.

I did a year-long sailing trip across the Indian Ocean with my family in 2014. My three children, my husband at the time and I set off from Thailand and ended up in South Africa. There are so many different cultures and landscapes along the way. We went to the Maldives and destinations I’ve written about in my book, including Thailand and the Seychelles.