Tag: travel-with-kids
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Rainy February Family Visit to Portugal with two kids 13 & 12
February in Portugal: When Life Gives You Rain and Residency Appointments We had to go to Portugal in early February for an AIMA residency appointment (you don’t get to pick the date), so we figured we’d escape the sub-zero temperatures at home and make it a family trip. The kids would miss a week of…
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Montreal with Kids: A Long Weekend Adventure That Felt Like Europe (With All the Real-Life Plot Twists)
November 4-7, 2023 | Kids ages 10 and 9 Sometimes you want to feel like you’ve traveled to Europe without actually crossing an ocean. Enter Montreal – our perfect solution for a long weekend that would give us that “foreign land” experience while keeping the drive time reasonable (well, mostly reasonable) from the Hudson Valley.…
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6 Days in Iceland with Kids: A Family Adventure
October 2-9, 2022 After the COVID lockdown lifted, we decided it was time for a real adventure. With Play Airlines now flying out of our regional airport, Iceland felt like the perfect destination for our family of four (kids aged 10 and 8). Since Jennifer didn’t feel like planning another elaborate trip and I admittedly…
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Our Williamsburg Adventure: A Family Trip with Two Elementary Schoolers
April 14-19, 2019 | Kids: Ages 6 and 7 The Great Musket Obsession (And Other Colonial Williamsburg Truths) Let me start with the most important piece of advice I can give you about Colonial Williamsburg with kids: Every single child will be running around with toy muskets. I’m talking about a full-blown colonial arms race in miniature.…
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Ireland with Kids and Family: A Comedy of Errors and Emerald Isle Magic
Ireland Travel Adventure: March 22-31, 2018 Disclaimer: I’m writing about this trip 7+ years after the fact, so I may not be remembering things exactly as they happened. But hey, that’s what makes family stories better, right? Time has a way of turning disasters into comedy gold. The Cast of Characters When Norwegian Air started…
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Tulum with Toddlers: A Family Adventure in Learning
January 2017 – Ages 5 and 4 Sometimes the best family vacations are the ones that teach you the most about your kids (and yourself). Our January 2017 trip to Tulum, Mexico was exactly that kind of adventure – equal parts paradise and parenting reality check, with a healthy dose of “what were we thinking?”…
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