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.
A chain of 80 extinct volcanoes that is, with the most visited one at Puy-de-Dome in the Auvergne region of (central) France! 😊 If you're expecting to see something like Taal Volcano, Mount Fuji, Mount Etna or Eyjafjallajökull, well this aint it. The view at 1,465 above sea level is still impressive eventhough the sun … Continue reading Day 22-23: What? Volcanoes in France!??! A Family Camping Road Trip in Central France in Pictures and Review of Camping de la Palle (Pontgibaud)
Another good thing about family road trip is that you get to see friends along the way and, if your friends have kids, the kids get to play together like old ftiends. Our good friends in Bern is becoming to be an annual pilgrimage for us and, eventhough the sun was shy during our visit, … Continue reading Day 20-21: Family Camping Road Trip Break with Friends in Bern, the City of Bears, Switzerland
Lessons learned from less than satisfactory performance earned yesterday for back up plans that ended up in a motel because no camping site was available. So this morning we hit the road early to make sure we have camping in Switzerland, 5.5 driving hours away, to get us closer to see the biggest waterfalls in … Continue reading Day 18-19 Road Trip: Tips in Pictures for Visiting the Biggest Waterfalls of Europe+Review of Family Camping Schaffhausen Switzerland
Yipee Hooray! It's our 100th post. After a few weeks stay with family and friends in Poland we continue our family camping road trip, this time amidst the spike in coronavirus cases all over Europe--specially in places we intended to visit. Uggghhh! And today, the first day of our return trip, and after 3 years, … Continue reading Day 17: 100th post, Family Camping Problem in Germany
Before resuming our camping road trip back to Spain, here are some pictures from Polska/Polonia/Poland. 😊 A 2-kilometer walk from the parking through the woods and to the beach. Stilo beach, entrance 52. White sand, clear water... too cold for us. Kaj with "the spider" on at Stilo beach, Poland. Łeba sea port, Poland. For … Continue reading A Free Electrons Family Camping Road Trip Break in Poland in Pictures
Continuing with our plan to go family camping in small villages, away from big population densities (thanks to coronavirus), we move onwards and northwards, from Belgium to the Netherlands, and camped at Hovershoj rural "mini-camping" with playground, antique farm equipment, and billy goats. Unfortunately, one of my kids had an accident and we had to cut … Continue reading Day 16: Road Trip with Kids from the Highest Point of Belgium to Mini-Camping Hovershof Netherlands
WAR! Is that what Bastogne, Belgium is all about? Obviously not. But we came here for that. It's day 15 of our family camping road trip across Europe this year and it's time to teach the kids a little about war and a lot about peace. So, what family-friendly things can we do in Bastogne--the … Continue reading Day 14+15: Road Trip with Kids, Bastogne, Belgium
Would you let your child take a sip of champagne? What about a dabber? What if you are in champagne country in Reims, France and you had just finished a tour of a champagne cellar? So, we (parents) "splurge" a bit and visited "Vranken Pommery"--a champagne producer housed in what looks like a castle that … Continue reading Day 12+13: Road Trip with Kids in the Heart of Champagne Country
From D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers in Condom to Cyrano de Bergerac in France, we begin the second week of our family camping road trip from Spain to Poland this year. For the most part, coronavirus social distancing guidelines are being followed with the ubiquitous face masks, particularly indoors. Cyrano de Bergerac, the boys and … Continue reading Day 9: Family Camping Road Trip in Bergerac to See About a Man with the Long Nose
"All for one and one for all!" A monument of The Three Musketeers in Condom, France reminds all who visit of that popular cheer. Yes, the boys continue to be fascinated by D'Artagnan and The Three Musketeers. So, we're here. "All for one and one for all!" On the 7th day of our family camping … Continue reading Day 7+8: Family Camping Road Trip in Condom… No Kidding!
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