About budget family travel; specifically about months-long road trip with kids across Europe that lets you see cool places and experience life on the road for weeks on end. This goes hand-in-hand with our Family Camping category that talks more about life on the road sleeping in a tent in camping grounds.
All the bags are packed for POLAND-ONLY family camping road trip... number 5 ! We're looking at 21 days, 8 campsites, 22 driving hours, 22 minutes and 1,743 kilometers on the road, plus side trips. All the bags are packed for our all-in-Polska family camping and road trip. We were successful in minimizing what we … Continue reading What to Do or See in Poland: Olsztyn on the Trail of Eagle’s Nest in Pictures
After a year of living in the land of potatoes, pierogis and. . . (nope, NO POLKA DOT bikinis here). . . head-butting goats, Poznan, Poland, it's finally summer vacation time and, yup, we're on the move again!! This time exploring Poland 21 days of family camping road trip number 5. This time it's all … Continue reading All-in-Poland, Family Camping Road Trip #5
What?!?!!? More problems??? We cut it close yesterday when we arrived at our primary campinground in France only to find it closed and our back-up camping sites were closed too. In fact, we couldn't find anything open in this eastern part of France that borders Germany. Why? It was the summer of floods in these … Continue reading WTF?!… More Problems? On the Road in Germany, on the Way to Our New Home in Poland, Day 21+22
Problems. . . finally caught up with us. And just like that. . . camping was over. We're still on the road though, with over a thousand kilometers to home. The original plan for this family road trip number 4, from Bolonia to Polonia, was to go through the Swiss and Italian Alps and visit … Continue reading In Pictures: Problems with Camping in France, Day 20
On day 19 of our family road trip number 4, we move our little gypsy caravan from camping in the mountains of Andorra to an overnight camping by a lake (Lac du Salagou) with a road trip stop to see an impressive medieval fortress in Carcassone, France, with 3 kilometers of walls and 52 towers … Continue reading In Pictures: On the Road from Andorra to France+Road Trip Stop Carcassone, Day 19
What is it like camping in Andorra? And given the hazy Covid-19 country-border restrictions, are we even able to cross the border? So, yes! We've finally left Spain after 4 years, 4 months and 4 family camping road trips! Orienteering mission accomplished! At the top of the . . . (ok, not quite the mountain … Continue reading In Pictures: Feels Like Wild Camping in Andorra + Family Camping Road Trip 4, Days 17-20
After a couple of quick stops at what has been called the most well-preserved Renaissance towns in all of Spain and also UNESCO world-heritage sites--Ubeda and Baeza, we continued north on day 14, in mid-July, on the 7th leg of our 4th family camping road trip across Europe. Destination? The pre-medieval town of Cuenca, with … Continue reading In Pictures: The Hanging Houses of Cuenca, Spain, Day 14 Road Trip with Kids
184-something miles (or 296 kilometers) to the next campinground at Ossa de Montiel. But first, we've gotta a couple of quick stops at what has been described as the most well-preserved Renaissance towns in the whole of Spain--Ubeda and Baeza. This is definitely one of those beautiful places and UNESCO world-heritage sites in Andalucia, if … Continue reading In Pictures: Just Passing Through the Best-preserved Renaissance Towns of Ubeda and Baeza in Andalucia
"Are you a troglodyte?," a friend of mine once asked when I told stories about living in the caves of Granada, learning flamenco. What the heck is a troglodyte anyway? A cave dweller who chose to be simple, even ignorant of the outside world. I don't know about you but that sounds good to me, … Continue reading In Pictures: Guadix Cave Houses in the Desert of Granada, Spain? Or Arizona, USA?
Going through the Alpujarras is definitely one of the best relaxing Andalucia road trip that our slow-go family enjoys. This is day 9 of our fourth family camping road trip in Europe, from Spain to Poland and back again. Yet, a road trip across southern Spain is our family's favorite. Why? Well, because there's a … Continue reading In Pictures: On the Road from the Highest White Villages to the Desert Caves of Granada, Spain
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