Our review of Appartello Smarttime Living Hamburg. This family friendly hotel and apartments rental is a fantastic base to visit Hamburg and has special attentions for families with children that make it an excellent family friendly accommodation option for all types of travellers. During our last family trip to Hamburg we called home the small apartment complex called Appartello Smarttime Living. Our stay was organised as part of the campaign ‘Come to Hamburg’ and it really shows how much of a difference local knowledge makes. Looking at the map I would have dismissed this hotel as too far from the city centre (it isn’t, keep reading!) but our hosts knew better…

Our round up of the best things to do in Trier Germany for the whole family. A guide to Trier attractions, excursions, hotels and interesting facts about Germany’s oldest city. The first time I learned about Trier, Germany, it was from the pages of a school book. The Italianised version of its name, Treviri, was looking at me from the much-slaved-on pages of my history manual, while my sixteen-year-old-self tried to make sense of the many names associated with this important historical city. Augustus, Constantine, and what’s Karl Marx got to do with it again? Everything seemed to suggest that Trier was a crucial location for European history and the fact…