Hi, I’m Melissa

Registered Nutritionist, midlife wellness advocate, digital creator, wellness retreat creator and avid traveller with our family of 3 with Gavin and our son Jago.,We left the UK in 2021 around Covid times for a better life in the sun. Since them we have been spending the cold European months in Mexico and the Warner spring and summer in Europe. 5 years on and we have gained so much insight into a different life without the 9-5 grind, a life of more freedom and travel while working online.

Ryse Wanderlust on instagram started as just an account to record our memories for us as pictures never really do it and capturing memories with videos I kn o will be invaluable when our one and only little boy grows up and wanders on his own path. We have had invaluable time together and have managed schooling with a mix of an excellent expat bilingual private school and longer summers, where we homeschooled on those extra months from school.

My wish for our son was to learn languages, about culture, travel and about life not only from a textbook but hands on and honestly kids just thrive to this change at the age we did this with Jago, 5. He now speaks Spanish, understands all of the above even different dialects has made life long friends from the UK and Spain and we are now ready for our next chapter moving to Spain, where he will attend an all Spanish speaking school

Rysewanderlust is now everything I wish I’d known – the real costs, local lifestyle tips, visa processes, school decisions, homeschooling and worldschooling info, the best wellness retreats, the family-tested itineraries and the honest truth about relocating abroad after 40.

We will help you through curated guides, itineraries and top travel deals posted and updated regularly. The focus is on women over 35 vs teenagers and young travel which we can all agree is a different vibe. Wellness, luxury, top deals for families.