The Malta Independent 18 May 2024, Saturday
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Globe-scooting family set to visit Malta to film travel series

Monday, 10 April 2017, 15:11 Last update: about 8 years ago

The Kid Trotter family will be scooting Malta on 13 April to film their international family travel series.... an innovative collection of travel videos for families worldwide. Invited by the Malta Tourism Authority and Micro scooters the family will spend 10 days producing a series unravelling the local culture.

When the Clifford family embarked on their ambitious video project almost two years ago they could never have written the script of what was to follow. Their dream was to travel the world together on their Micro push scooters, meet great people, discover foreign cultures, "world-school" their daughter and produce an online video series documenting their adventures.

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The multi-cultural family are passionate about sharing their real human experiences far from attraction parks. Together they have hunted fish and giant coconut crabs with tribes in the south pacific, trained in a Cambodian circus, gone to school in a rural Vietnam school, taught English in Nepal and picked tea lives in this highest tea plantation in the world in southern India. 

However not content with just living this special experience, the parents Sean (from Ireland) and Valerie (from France) decided to share it and launch an online travel series entitled The Kid Trotter. The series, told from the perspective of their ultra energetic little girl Enya, follows their discovery of foreign cultures as they travel on their Micro push scooters around the world.

In an age where borders are closing and terror and fear are almost omni present, the family seek to address these concerns through the messages they convey in their productions. Sean says: "Through open-mindedness and a genuine interest in learning about other cultures we realise that people everywhere are similar... all in search of happiness. People are both kind and fun, and even more so when traveling with kids."

As Mark Twain once said: "Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness..." In their own little way the Clifford's are tackling this age old issue through delivering their unique content directly to families worldwide.

The family both self-produce and self-finance this online video travel series, which is especially for children and families.  Aimed at showing parents how much fun it can be to travel with kids, it is also to entertain children, educate them, and inspire curiosity about the world. The series is an innovative mix of storytelling and professional, fun and upbeat editing. Produced in both English and French it has already broken the 1/2 million views, after being featured in press across 10 different countries. 

Schools in France, Australia, New Zealand and the USA have already begun showing the videos to young students who are delighted to see how the real world looks through Enya's eyes, in a break from their textbooks!

After travelling the world in 2016 the Kid Trotter family are now focusing on great European destinations beginning with Malta. During their 10 days filming on the islands they will focus on the amazing countryside, Easter processions, local history and culture, gastronomy, fishing and the arts.


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