A Family Travel Blog
Family Travel Inspiration I created my family travel blog to inspire people to take their kids everywhere. It’s why I post to social media as well. It’s an amazing world. The more places you take your kids, and the more cultures they see in person, the more it will change… Read More
Florence to Bologna to Florence This summer we spent six weeks in Florence. Whenever we base in Florence or anywhere else, we check out what’s going on in the area. If there’s a great concert an hour away, we don’t want to miss it. The Lucca Summer Festival is always… Read More
Florence with Kids (or Without Kids) We love Italy. We’ve rented villas in Cortona, in Positano and on Lake Como. We’ve hiked and cycled in the Dolomites. We had a family reunion in Rome, centered around my niece’s baptism at the Vatican. I hiked across Tuscany. We’ve taken a cruise… Read More
Note: I wrote this post for Visit Greenland‘s website, where it resided for several years. I’m now reposting it here. My primary blog post on our Greenland adventure is HERE. Traveling Unplugged I love traveling with my phone, and I use it all the time. If I’m in a taxi,… Read More
The Best Florence Restaurants So of course I can’t tell you what the best Florence restaurants are. That’s part of the fun of traveling to Florence – you get to stumble upon tavernas and find your own favorite places. Then you can return, and return again, and you’ll see how… Read More
A Month by Month Guide to the Best Vacations for Kids The most frequent request I get is for a list of suggested destinations by month (i.e. the best vacations for kids by month). I could easily do posts for Where to Travel in January, Where to Travel in February,… Read More
The Dolomites Several years ago I visited the Dolomites for the first time with my family, splitting our time between Val di Fassa and Val di Fiemme. I absolutely loved the trip, but I admit that I still didn’t have a good feel for the Dolomites overall. There are 12… Read More
Why Syros? I’ve written a lot about Greece over the years. It’s our favorite country after all. I first visited in 1990 and 1992 with friends in college (Athens, Olympia, Delphi, Hydra, Poros, Aegina and Mykonos) and then my wife and I traveled to Athens and Santorini in 2009. We… Read More
The Best Age to Travel the World A question I get a lot is: what is the best age to take my kids to _______. Fill in the blank with anywhere: Hawaii; Europe; Africa; Australia. The answer is to some extent specific to the place, but it’s also specific to… Read More
Rating Every Country We’ve Traveled To During the pandemic we were at home and looking for ways to stay entertained, so I asked my wife and kids to rate every country they had been to from 1 to 10. I added in my votes and ranked every country that had… Read More
