All Over the Map
France
Our Third Month: A Family Eurail Pass Takes Us All Across Europe
Every other train we’d taken that week we’d had to run for. This time, we pulled up to the station with 10 minutes to spare. “Do you want me to come in and help you figure out the track and all that?” asked our host, helpfully. “Oh no,” I said, “If we can’t figure that more »
Our Second Month on the Road
Here’s a recap of our second month on the road from twelve-year-old Calla. See how she feels about our family RTW trip. Our second month in our year-long trip around the world, started with us leaving Barcelona and going to England, Cambridge to be specific. We arrived at the airport in the morning and got more »
RTW Week 8: Our Family Eurail Adventure Begins
We are thrilled to announce that we will be traveling with a Family Eurail Pass thanks to the very nice people at Eurail.com, who want us to write about how fun it is to travel as a family via rail. We’ll be blogging about our trip here, and I’ll be writing a few articles for more »
We’re blurry, but that’s what a couple of glasses of wine with lunch will do to you.
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Tonight, in Paris
We said a reluctant farewell to our friends in Scotland this afternoon, and arrived in France where our digs are decidedly less luxe. All the more reason to get out and experience this fine place! We zipped over to the Eiffel Tower just after sunset and just before the light show and just in time more »
Book Review: The Family Hitchcock—The darker side of international house exchanges
If, like us, you’ve considered an international house exchange, this book’s for you. The Family Hitchcock is a comic children’s adventure novel centered around a house exchange gone awry. The Hitchcocks have been going on adventurous family vacations for years, driven mostly by the earnest Modern-Family-style-glass-half-full dad. This year, however, oldest daughter Maddy would rather more »
Vive le Peanut Butter: Travelling with a Picky Eater
This post is reprinted from my February 15, 2011 column on Mount Vernon Patch. My middle son, Jacques, is an adventurous eight-year-old who likes nothing more than going mountain biking and camping in the woods. When it comes to eating, however, he considers eating the crust of his peanut butter and jelly sandwich to be more »
5 Things to Do in Paris With Kids in the Rain (Plus How to Spend Your One Sunny Afternoon!)
Luckily, I hadn’t seen the weather report, as I might have panicked and been tempted to call the whole thing off. We had no particular agenda for our week in Paris; we were planning on exploring the various playgrounds and sculpture gardens, take long strolls through the various neighborhoods and outdoor markets, eat lots of more »
