Meet "the world's most well-travelled baby" - who has visited 23 countries in just 11 months during his mum's maternity leave.<br /><br />Little Atlas Montgomery set off on his European adventure when he was just six weeks old.<br /><br />Now 11 months, he's been travelling around Europe in a campervan with his parents while mum Becs Lewis, 29, originally from Rotherham, South Yorkshire, is on maternity leave.<br /><br />Along with dad Will Montgomery, 31, they set off from their hometown, Queenstown, South Island, New Zealand, in October 2022.<br /><br />After visiting Singapore for three days they jetted to the UK where little Atlas met his mum's side of the family for the first time.<br /><br />The tot, who will turn one at the end of August, learned to crawl in Switzerland, got his first tooth in Norway and started eating solid foods in France.<br /><br />Their family has just left Sweden and is currently travelling back to the UK to sell their van before flying to their final destination - Greece next month. <br /><br />When Becs' maternity leave is over in early November, she will return to her job as a retail manager.<br /> <br />Brit Becs said: "I went travelling in New Zealand in 2016 and started to work towards my residency there.<br /><br />"I said once I got it, I would come back to do a European road trip.<br /><br />"A year before I got my residency, I met Will.<br /> <br />"We decided we would get a puppy but I got pregnant, and it spiralled from there.<br /><br />"It never occurred to me that you could travel with a baby. It seemed so unrealistic, but it is not that hard.<br /><br />"It has been amazing - you can see every bit of his growth. It's great being able to travel just the three of us."<br /><br />Becs gave birth to 5lb 5oz Atlas on August 31, 2022, at 11.28pm at the Invercargill Hospital, Invercargill, New Zealand.<br /><br />Both parents worked hard to save up to sustain them on their travels when they discovered Becs was pregnant with Atlas.<br /><br />When he was born, Will took a sabbatical from his job as a retail manager.<br /><br />They ended their tenancy in their rented home and sold all but five boxes of their belongings, which now sit in Will's parents' garage.<br /><br />The first stop six weeks later was Singapore so Atlas could spend some time with his uncle - Will's brother - Fraser Montgomery, 38, who lives there.<br /><br />The pair then travelled to Chesterfield, in the UK, where they bought a Fiat Ducato van for £11k while staying with Becs’ dad in Rotherham nearby.<br /><br />An unusual stop on a tourist’s typical journey, Becs said this was the first time her family had met baby Atlas – so it became one of their most memorable stops.<br /> <br />From there, they travelled to France, Germany, Luxembourg, Belgium and have just finished up in Sweden to return to the UK.<br /><br />As a condition of their visas they have to return to the UK every three months - before flying back out to pick up where they left off.<br /><br />Other countries visited on their adventure include Italy, San Marino, Switzerland, Litchenstein, Slovenia, Croatia, Austria, Czechia, Denmark and Norway.
