A Family Travel Blog
The Best Restaurants in Florence, Italy So of course I can’t tell you what the best restaurants in Florence 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… Read More
The Best Places to Travel with Kids When Travelocity asked me to select 20 of my favorite family travel photos, I spent a lot of time narrowing down the list based on photos I liked and destinations I recommend. In the end I came up with 20 that I think… Read More
Florence with Kids We love Italy. We’ve rented villas in Cortona 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. We’ve taken a cruise from Sicily to La Spezia. And we’ve visited Naples… Read More
Paris on a Budget Recently I wrote a post on where else people can go for the same cost as a Disneyland vacation. When I was making a short list of destinations to include, I immediately thought of Paris. After all, it’s visited by almost 18 million people a year… Read More
Ages 20-25 I did a lot between the ages of 20 and 25. I studied overseas. I graduated from college and got a Master’s Degree. I traveled to 15 countries and at least that many states. I interned for President Reagan. And I met the woman who, 10 years later,… Read More
The Best Age to Travel 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 the family.… Read More
South America I’ve been to South America a LOT the past few years – for family trips, for one-on-one trips with my kids, for conferences, and with friends. It’s simply easy. From the US there’s virtually no jet lag, and you can get to a lot of South American destinations… Read More
Thank you to Enterprise for sponsoring this post. Beating the Sunday Blues At the end of 2018 Enterprise commissioned a study on Sunday depression (aka the Sunday Blues), and the results are eye-opening. Essentially, even though the work week is Monday through Friday, and people only have two days for… Read More
Disneyland Prices 2020 2020 Disneyland ticket prices were just released, and they’re going up. Way up. Some one-day tickets will now cost over $200. Our kids have never been obsessed with Disney, but we’ve never been anti-Disney either. We’ve been to Hong Kong Disneyland once, Disney World twice, and Disneyland… Read More
Family Travel Ideas for 2019 January is my favorite month! I love looking at the year ahead and sketching out travel. How are school breaks timed? What’s on my wish list? Where do the kids want to go? I’m still figuring out our 2019. Assuming that you’re doing the same,… Read More
