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Best travel strollers for Europe [2025 update]
Our buying guide on choosing the best lightweight stroller for travel in Europe and tackling those charming (and bumpy) cobbled streets! What to look for when choosing a pushchair for cobblestones, must-have travel stroller specs and the best travel strollers for Europe. I am an Italian mama, born and raised among the beautiful and bumpy cobbled streets of Rome. I am also a mama of two with a huge passion for European city breaks with kids; so as you can imagine, I have more than my fair share of experience, when it comes strollers! One of the questions that I receive more often, from readers who love to travel with…
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The best travel shoes for kids by season and vacation type
Our selection of the best travel shoes for kids: walking sandals for toddlers and kids and winter walking shoes for toddlers and primary school age kids. When packing for a family trip, deciding the right type of shoes to bring is paramount. Blisters are a sure way to ruin sightseeing fast and shoes for the wrong weather can make your kids miserable at best and put them in danger at worse. I am sure I am not the only mama who obsessively shouted to her children: don’t get your shoes soaked, its’ freezing, you will get pneumonia! Things get even more complicated if you are going on an active holiday,…
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Hiking shoes for kids (toddlers and up): how to choose + best buys
Our selection of hiking shoes for kids (toddlers and up) for family hikes and outdoor adventures. Good hiking shoes are essential for a safe and positive hiking experience and this is true for adults and kids alike, even very young ones. While it may be tempting to think that a small child won’t need special footwear, having the wrong kind of shoe can make their feet cold, sore and can cause problems with traction and support, all things that can be not just unpleasant but also cause outright injuries. We love hiking with our kids and, over the course of the years, we have tried several kid hiking shoe brands…
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Hiking gifts for kids they will love on their next hiking adventure
A handpicked selection of good hiking gifts for kids they will love to carry on their adventures. Kids’ hiking gifts guide [updated] If you are looking for the perfect gift for a child who loves to hike, you are in the right place! Our family loves to hike. We regularly go on family hikes near Dublin, where we live, and we also now weave hiking into our holidays. Our kids, however, didn’t start off as great hikers. Our first family hiked had a soundtrack of huffing and puffing: clearly, the love we had for hiking was not naturally shared by our kids! However, we didn’t give up. We know exercise…
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Best family travel gear for easy travels with kids of all ages
The best family travel gear for easy travels with kids easier: kids travel gear and family travel accessories for easy travels with babies, toddlers, older kids
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Toddler travel essentials actually worth buying
Our tried and tested list of toddler travel essentials that you will actually use on your travels! Essential travel items for toddlers to make family travel easier.
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Baby travel essentials + baby travel gear to make travels with baby easier
Must have items for traveling with baby and baby travel essentials worth buying. What do you really need for traveling with baby? Expert guide to baby travel gear
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The best crossbody bags for travel to be comfortable and stylish
Carefully curated selection of the best crossbody bags for travel for comfort and style. A good cross body bag is a great travel accessory and one I recommend in all my style -conscious packing lists. Pick the right one and you can go city wandering for hours, with hands free to take photos and the knowledge your belongings are safely by your side. You will even look cute in photos! Pick the wrong one, on the other hand, and you may well find yourself with sore shoulders and spending more time rummaging through your bags content to get the camera out (or your city pass or ticket, or cash) than…
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The best shoes for Italy to travel in comfort and style
Deciding what type of shoes to pack for any trip is a bit of a nightmare. Shoes are bulky, often heavy and, if you pack the wrong ones, they are a waste of space at best and a cause of sore feet at worse. Packing travel shoes for Italy is ever harder: famous for fashion, Italy makes you want to look good and stylish but its ancient streets and sightseeing opportunities require comfortable and sensible shoe-wear. So, what shoes should you pack for Italy to hit the right note in fashion and comfort? In this guide, we share our selection of the best shoes for Italy so you can be…
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Bubblebum review: portable booster seat to stay safe on the road
Our review of BubbleBum, the inflatable booster seat designed for safety and portability. In this BubbleBum review we look a the BubbleBum booster seat comfort, safety and ease of use. If you are on a quest for the perfect car booster seat, you have probably come across Bubblebum, the portable booster seat designed to come with you on your travels. I first heard about this booster seat from the web, while researching the safest and best booster seats for our upcoming trip, and it immediately piqued my attentions. This booster seats boasts a high safety standard, has been deemed comfortable by many kids and packs up really small, which means…
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The best toddler backpacks and small kids backpacks for everyday and travel
The best toddler backpacks for everyday and travel. Best backpacks for toddlers that are great daybags for preschool, outdoor adventures and travel
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How to choose the best thermal underwear for winter travel
Our round up of the best thermal underwear for winter travel: adult and kids garments that will help you stay warm when sightseeing during the coldest months. Cold weather calls for clever packing. Few things kill the joy of sightseeing quicker than cold creeping into your bones and weight restrictions on luggage means you can’t always bring with you as many thick jumpers and jackets as you would have liked. The solution for light packing in the cold season is to invest in good thermal underwear. Non bulky, effective and versatile, thermal underwear will keep you and your kids warm and hide discreetly under your clothes so you can feel…
