Aged just nine, seven and five, the Pritchard youngsters have returned from a 60,000 mile trip across 29 countries.
普里查家的三個孩子，今年分別9歲、7歲、5歲，但他們剛環遊世界6萬哩，走遍29國。
Rowan, Rhys and their sister Jenna took a year off from school to embark on an early gap year.
羅萬、萊斯和他們的小妹珍娜休學一年，提早展開所謂「空檔的一年」。
During their trip of a lifetime with their parents, the globetrotting trio took 36 flights, 47 boat trips and 21 train journeys as well as travels by he-licopter, cable car and rickshaw.
當他們和父母展開一生只有一次的旅程時，這環遊世界三童組共搭36班飛機，坐47次船和21回火車，另外還搭直昇機、纜車及人力車。
Their adventures involved swapping school dinners for donkey stew and guinea pig lasagne, staying in Amazo-nian huts surrounded by tarantulas and leeches, and watching whales and tortoises in the Galapagos islands.
他們的冒險活動包括：用學校晚餐換燉驢肉及天竺鼠義大利千層麵，留宿亞馬遜茅舍，周遭全是狼蛛和水蛭，並在加拉巴哥斯島上賞鯨看烏龜。
Their 38-year-old mother Rachel, a marketing consul-tant, explained why the family decided to take a year off from the daily grind.
他們38歲的媽媽瑞秋，是市場行銷顧問，她解釋為什麼全家決定從每天例行苦差事中休假一年。
She said: "We wanted to teach our kids about the world by showing it to them, and felt it was an excellent way to teach the children about geography, history and cultural anthropology. We have had an amazing time. They have memories which will last a life-time."
她說：「我們想藉著向孩子展示世界來教他們認識世界，同時也覺得，這是教孩子地理、歷史和文化人類學很棒的方式。我們共渡一段很棒的時光，他們會留下一輩子的記憶。」
Rachel Pritchard and her husband Joe put their business on hold after receiving an unexpected inheritance and set off in August last year.
瑞秋和她老公喬伊意外繼承一筆遺產後，決定暫停他們的事業，在去年八月出發。
They began their travels in New York, and after seeing the sights in the USA and Canada they headed to South America then on to Australasia, Asia and finally back to Europe and their home in Llandovery, Car-marthenshire.
他們從紐約展開旅程，在遍覽美國和加拿大地區的觀光景點後，先到南美，再前進澳洲、亞洲，最後回歐洲和他們在卡瑪森郡倫多佛利的家。
And their 366-day epic journey, which cost over ￡50,000, had its fair share of hairy moments.
而他們長達366天的壯舉，總共花費逾50,000英鎊（約台幣330萬），旅途上也曾發生令人毛骨聳然的經驗。
The 38-year-old Joe Pritchard re-called walking through the jungle when Jenna uttered a piercing scream. He said: "She was covered in leeches all across her stomach and her thighs. It was one of the points in the journey when we thought: 'What are we do-ing to our poor children'"
38歲的喬伊還記得，走過叢林時，紾娜突然發出刺耳的叫聲。他說：「她從肚子到大腿爬滿了水蛭。這是這趟旅程中，我們信心動搖的一次：『我們到底對這些可憐的孩子做了什麼？』」
Less frightening episodes came as the children wandered round the An-dean city of Machu Picchu, followed in the footsteps of Charles Darwin on the Galapagos Islands and travelled 6,000 miles on the Trans Siberian ex-press from China to Moscow.
比較不驚悚的插曲發生在孩子跟隨達爾文在加拉巴哥斯群島的腳步，漫遊安地斯山的馬丘比丘城市，以及搭從中國直通莫斯科、長達六千哩的泛西伯利亞快車。
In Yosemite National park in Cal-ifornia they were woken up in their shack by bears searching for food at 4am.
在加州優勝美地國家公園，他們清晨4點在渡假木屋被尋找食物的熊吵醒。
But one of the most fraught moents came when little Rhys, clearly displaying a wanderlust of his own, disappeared from the family tent in Mongolia.
但最令人擔心的一刻發生在小萊斯身上，他顯然玩興大發，從全家住的蒙古包失蹤。
Rachel remembered: "He did tell us he was going but we were rather groggily asleep. When we surfaced he was nowhere to be seen. Joe got out the binoculars to spot our tiny dot on the horizon. He braved wild horses fighting, bull yaks and a wild dog cir-cling him, and was happy as anything when he got back to us safe and well several hours later."
瑞秋回憶說：「他有告訴我們他要出去玩，但我們睡得迷迷糊糊的，當我們走出蒙古包時，他已不見蹤影。喬伊拿出雙筒望遠鏡，在地平線上發現我們的小不點。他勇敢面對野馬互鬥，←牛及一隻繞著他打轉的野狗，但當他幾小時後完好安全的回來時，還樂得不得了。」
Joe continued: "We had 15 days in Peru and I thought: 'Why not save some money by taking a coach instead of a plane' Then what would have been a routine one-hour flight turned into 20 hours of hell on four wheels - 16 of which were taken up going through the Andes through the most terrifying non-stop hairpin bends. Most of that time was spent with Jen-na throwing up and ferrying little sick bags to and from the tiny toilet all for the sake of saving $200."
喬伊接著說：「我們在祕魯待了15天，我想：『何不省點錢，搭長途巴士，不搭機？』這使原本只要一小時的飛機旅程，因搭車變成煉獄般的20小時，其中16小時走過安地斯山最恐怖的急轉彎，中途沒有休息。大半時候，珍娜都因暈車嘔吐，還要來來去去，從狹小的洗手間拿嘔吐袋，只為了省200美元。」
Now the Pritchards are faced with a different challenge - adjusting to ev-eryday life of school and homework.
現在，普里查一家要面對不同的挑戰：適應學校和家庭作業等日常作息。
《詞解》
globetrotting 環遊世界
gap year 空檔的一年
cable car 纜車
rickshaw人力車
swapping 交換
donkey stew 燉驢肉
guinea pig 天竺鼠
lasagna 千層闊麵條
tarantulas 狼蛛
leeches 水蛭
daily grind 每天例行苦差事
anthropology 人類學
hairy毛骨聳然
piercing 刺耳
fraught moments 擔心的時刻
wanderlust 玩興大發
groggily asleep睡得迷迷糊糊
binoculars 雙筒望遠鏡
yaks 犁牛
coach 長途巴士
hairpin bends 急轉彎