Have you ever made a mistake, when travelling? Something you wish you hadn’t done, or done differently or something a bit silly that just made your holiday not quite as perfect as you were expecting it to be? I sure have and, while it’s never pleasant to make a mistake and even less to admit it publicly (we are all… View Post
This is a review of our morning in Dublin with Santa from a few years ago, please check the official Airfield Estate website for current events. If you are spending Christmas in Ireland with kids, you might be interested in knowing that, with the right address in hand, it is fairly easy to meet Santa in Dublin. When I was… View Post
Can you visit Berlin in one day and with a toddler in tow? If I were to give tips about the best way to visit a city as rich in culture and history as Berlin, I would say you should take you time and devote to it at the very least a good few days. This is particularly true if… View Post
Yes, travel envy is a thing! And t gets hold of us no matter how often we travel. In this post, some simple steps to overcome it from home. It’s been raining non-stop for over 24 hours. The sky is a solid grey, the roads a patchwork of wet asphalt and puddles. The grass in the garden is a soggy,… View Post
When the four-man orchestra sets up in the leafy porch, the dark wood of the cello shines in the sun and so do the white shirts of the elderly musicians, busy straightening their borsalino -style hats before the show. Sitting at a cafe, admiring a crumbling colonial church, I take a sip of my cold Bucanero beer: we are in Havana and when the… View Post
We spent our last family holiday camping at the Inch Hideaway, an enchanting eco campsite near Cobh, Ireland. As always, the champion of the camping idea was Philip, but the practicalities were left to me, which meant what he thought would be a bring-our-own-tent-and-sleep-in the-woods kind of holiday into a much more comfortable one: we went yurt camping in Cork!… View Post
Our of our favourite days out as a family is a trip to Greenan Maze, in Co Wicklow. Greenan maze is part of Greenan farm, a very special place that we discovered this summer. Greenan has a farm, a cafe, a playground, a labyrinth and a country life museum and it is less than one hour, in a really beautiful stretch of the… View Post
Review of a family day out on a Dublin bay cruise. How to get tickets, what to bring, what to expect. The other day, we decided to be tourists in our town and organized an excursion on the sea with the kids: after studying the available Dublin boat tours we selected Dublin bay cruise, providers of boat trips in Dublin and… View Post
Family itinerary for a weekend in the area of Enniskillen with kids. One of our most pleasant week-ends away, in the last couple of months, was a trip to Enniskillen, in Northern Ireland. We went there with the children and the Italian grandparents: we left Dublin on a Friday afternoon, excited for this impromptu cross-border road trip, and armed with maps… View Post
If you happen to be in Ireland in September, you should try and attend Culture Night. Culture night is an all island public event celebrating culture, creativity and the arts. On this very special night many museums, historical houses and artists’ studios open their doors for longer hours, allowing curious eyes to see, for free, rooms otherwise inaccessible. As well… View Post
When I went to expo Milan 2015, on a Saturday at the end of September, I knew it would be busy. I had read enough about the hours of queuing to enter some of the pavilions to know I would not be able to see all I wanted to see, but Saturday was the only day I had available, so… View Post
What are the best things to do in Montreal with kids? Find out the highlights from our visit to Montreal and what you cannot miss on a Montreal city break with kids. We decided to go to Montreal following Philip’s memories from when he was a student. His students-years tales about the city didn’t immediately scream ‘family destination’ to me,… View Post