Europe

There is something that is so appealing about the idea of a holiday on one of those beautiful French canal boats.  The idea of sitting on the top deck sipping a glass of wine in the sunshine [...]

We did better on our London budget than I had thought. I had budgeted $85 / person / day as London is a famously expensive place.   Our planned budget for the month was $9860, but we can in at $ [...]

A few years ago we took the kids to Paris.  I wanted to show them the Louvre, but had low expectations for them actually enjoying the museum.  I had heard of Scavenger hunts through art museums [...]

Cliffs of Moher with Kids Cliffs of Moher with Kids I was initially very excited about visiting the Cliffs of Moher with kids.  However, we had gone into Doolin to have a bite to eat at a pub and [...]

We recently got to spend about 48 hours in Barcelona with the kids. A little less than 2 days was enough to experience a little bit of Barcelona and know that we want to go back. These are our [...]

View from the roof of Cathedral Bas Apartments We stayed at Cathedral Bas Apartments which was an Apart-hotel. It was right in the center of the gothic quarter of Barcelona or Barri Gotic. The [...]

I used the numbers from www.priceoftravel.com to give me an idea of what we should / could budget for our Family Europe Spring Break trip. There are 2 numbers on that site, a budget and a 3 Star [...]

Covered Gallery in Brussels As a family we really liked Brussels and Bruges. Both places were really walkable and felt very safe all the time. I have heard people say that Brussels isn’t worth [...]

Notre Dame Cathedral Paris Getting to Paris Today we woke up early and headed back to the train station to catch our train to Paris. Once again, we got four seats facing each other with a table [...]

Getting to Amsterdam Today we woke up earlier than the previous days; we had a train to catch. I had booked our train tickets from the US and printed the tickets. We just had to show up and get [...]