We set off on our first overseas family holiday – to Sicily – with our 1-year-old and 3-year-old kids a few weeks back. I still have bad memories of working out what to pack for a previous holiday to Tuscany – my first ever trip with a baby (when I packed everything including the kitchen […]
Travel: Italy With Kids – Festa Di San Paolo In Palazzolo Acreide, Sicily
We got back from a week in Sicily on Sunday. It was our first holiday as a family of four, and – aside from a long delay at the airport due to a mix-up with our keys (to be fair, two screaming kids in the Europcar office probably sped things up a bit) and an […]
Travel: 5 Genius Travel Products For Under-5s
**UPDATE 22/6/16: Having now had a chance to test out the Prince Lionheart stroller clip I can confirm it is AWFUL and I can’t recommend it. So, I’ve swapped the link for another similar product that – although I haven’t tested and therefore can’t personally recommend – gets much better reviews online. Apologies.*** Holiday travel […]
Travel: How To Teach Your Toddler A Second Language (When You Don’t Speak One Yourself)
Let me start this post by explaining that – despite the fact we own several English-Italian bilingual books – neither my toddler, nor my preschooler, speaks a second language. Having said that, I’ve just backed a Kickstarter campaign to develop a new kind of language-learning book for children, and I think it could radically change […]
Travel: 5 Things That Are Awful At Home But Awesome On Holiday
We had a little family mini-break to Yorkshire last week through a company called Gorgeous Cottages, and I noticed something while we were there. When you go away on holiday in the UK – whether that’s to a caravan, a campsite or a cottage – something magical happens. Boring, everyday stuff that you do at […]
Travel: Tuscany With A Baby, Part 1 – Cerreto Guidi
Our first holiday abroad AK (after kids) was a week in Tuscany when The Boy was 9 months old, and it was quite possibly our best holiday yet. We’d already fallen in love with the Italian city of Florence on a trip there for work, and spent a long weekend in Cagliari – the capital […]
Travel: 3 places to buy cold-weather clothing for kids
Anyone who knows me well will know that I like to over-wrap my kids. The Boy went from one chest infection to another when he was tiny, and I’m always cold. Add them together and you have 2 children who are very well-layered at all times. And probably a little bit hot. I bought The […]