Lonely Planet has just released a brand new city adventures eBook for family-friendly city trip inspiration. The 25 City Adventures for Families is a free eBook, now available for download from Lonely Planet Kids. Cities can be a challenge: expensive, chaotic and often cultural overload for small people. But they are also exciting, fascinating and above all, …
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A global education. A better perspective of the world. Respect for nature. Compassion for how other people live. An appreciation and gratitude for what we have. These are some of the reasons we justify travelling with our children. And while all of these are possible outcomes of family travel, I speak from experience when I …
Twitter chats are fun and informative events, but sometimes the timing just doesn’t work out with one’s schedule. Last week I took part in the Lonely Planet Kids #LPTakes5 chat, and in case you missed out on the fun and great travel tips, I’ve included the Q & A session below. Enjoy! Question #1: Tell us a bit …
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You know how much we love Lonely Planet Kids travel books here at the Travelling Mom! My kids STILL fight over their favorite LP Kids books for a bit of bedtime reading and travel dreaming, and they’re both teenagers now. So to say that I’m excited to participate in the Lonely Planet Kids #LPTakes5 Twitter Chat on Tuesday, April 21st, would be …
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For some of us, the idea of planning multigenerational travel and spending weeks together in a foreign land with our parents and children sounds like a new circle of hell in Dante’s Inferno. But, if your family relationships are solid and you can ride out the occasional emotional storms and historical family member behavioral patterns, …
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How far in advance do you plan your family vacation? Are you ‘spur of the moment’ travellers, or do you prefer travel planning well in advance, even up to a year ahead? We’re in the midst of some heavy trip planning going into spring, with solid travel plans for spring and summer 2013 already booked …
Ever since our first family trip with our five-month old son, I have, for the most part, enjoyed travelling with kids. ‘Well I should hope so’, you’re thinking, ‘you have a travelling with kids blog, don’t you?’ That’s certainly true. I may not have enjoyed the tiredness & jet lag (affecting one and not the other), …
Family friendly hotel + 50,000 sq ft water park = License to print money. Well, judging from the amount of kids and families we met during our recent visit to the Great Wolf Lodge Resort in Grand Mound, Washington, it certainly must be. The concept is simple; build an awesome water park packed with slides, rides, wave …
Recently, I’ve been looking back fondly at the freedom of baby and early-childhood days. From a vacation planning perspective, that is. Those were the best of times when planning a holiday and travelling with kids. No school schedules to worry about, organized competitive sports obligations, or critical peer network commitments to maintain. We could (and did) …
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I was one year old for my first plane trip. I don’t remember the experience of course, but there is one story from that journey that is worth retelling. My parents, who were very experienced travellers, decided it would be a good idea to give me some Gravol prior to our overnight flight overseas. They …
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I’m Claudia, an adventurous mom who loves to explore the world and travel with my family. This site shares modern-mom-tested family travel sanity tips, destination advice, and inspiration to stay ever curious and create lifelong travel memories.
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