Jess Lloyd-Mostyn

Don’t look it in the eye” says my seven year old daughter, her voice calm, reassuring and experienced. She’s dealt with monkeys in the wild before and this one, suddenly appearing somewhat aggressively in the middle of a marina playground in Singapore, doesn’t faze her in the slightest.

‘I look at their smiling faces and silently wish that they always be barefoot, with wild, salty hair’

So this is what it means to raise your children on a boat. I