Tag: europe

  • Rainy February in Portugal with Two Kids (13 & 12)

    We had to go to Portugal in early February for Jennifer’s AIMA residency appointment, which is the kind of thing you don’t get to schedule. They tell you the date, you show up. We figured if we had to be in Portugal anyway, we’d escape the sub-zero temperatures at home, pull the kids out of…

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  • A Scandinavian Family Adventure

    When we asked Nonna and Grandpa Charles where they wanted to go for their big trip, we secretly hoped they’d say somewhere warm. The kids had been lobbying hard for Italy or Japan. Charles is Swedish though, and Swedish heritage was always going to win that conversation. So Sweden it was, with Norway tacked on…

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  • Iceland with Kids 10 & 8

    By fall 2022 we were finally crawling out of the COVID years and wanted to do something that felt like a real trip again. Play Airlines had just started flying out of Stewart — our regional airport, twenty minutes from the house — which made Iceland suddenly stupid-easy to get to. Henry was 10, Elias…

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  • A Memorial Journey Through Germany with Kids 10 & 9

    The trip to Germany was supposed to happen earlier. Originally spring 2022, to visit my mom, who was living there with my sister. We postponed when my sister tested COVID-positive days before departure, then postponed again when our younger son tested positive the morning we were supposed to leave. Then in May, my mom died…

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  • Ireland with Kids 6 & 5 and Family: A Comedy of Errors and Emerald Isle Magic

    Norwegian Air briefly offered direct flights from Stewart Airport to Dublin in 2018 (RIP Norwegian Air, we hardly knew ye), which is the kind of opportunity you don’t pass up when you live in the Hudson Valley and the alternative is dragging two small kids and two grandparents through JFK. So in March we packed…

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