When we leave home, we’re either traveling, or we’re on holiday. Sometimes the two meet, but most often, our trips are firmly on one side or the other. For the Christmas/New Years beach vacations, we usually end up somewhere with a pretty nice pool. …
For all the amazing smartphones, fancy technology and talking personal assistant apps, there is still a lot of convincing reasons for a globe-trotting family to have that most mundane of technology items, a pair of walkie talkies. …
On our first day sightseeing in Munich, one of the worst nightmares for a family traveling with a baby happened: Our stroller broke. Yep, our trusty UPPAbaby G-Lite completely failed on us:
Broken Stroller, Broken Dreams
It happened while we were going down the steps to a church in th
When traveling with kids, we’ve always been torn about whether to bring car seats with us, or whether to rent. We usually Disgusting Car Seatgo for longer trips (min. 3 weeks), although car seat rentals (at least in Europe) are often capped at around 60 to 70 Euros. …
When deciding what toys to bring with us for a big trip, the bar gets set pretty high for anything that is the slightest bit heavy, take batteries, and makes noise. …
So, we’ve been planning. For hours. Days. Weeks, actually. It seems ridiculous. We can’t remember it ever being this hard to figure out our route before. After FIFTY-FOUR countries, you’d think we’d have this down…but apparently not. …
The UPPAbaby Vista Parent Organizer fits a thermos water bottle and the middle pocket is the perfect size for an iPhone.We’ve had an UPPAbaby Vista since our daughter was born three years ago and continue to love it. …
Casa LomaWe recently went to see family and friends in Toronto (which is Wendy’s home town). We have two little kids, one of whom is a three-year-old little girl, so a visit to a castle seemed a natural choice. …
Recently we were back “home” in Toronto, visiting family. We’d all gotten sick, and spent several days in bed. When we finally made it out to actually do something, we visited Casa Loma much to our young daughter’s excitement. …
When searching for new travel games to keep our two young children busy, we are frequently greeted with the advice that we should bring new toys. In fact, we’ve given out that advice ourselves – more than once!…