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.
Success! We've crossed the French border and arrived at our camping site with no problems. Camping Larrau serves as our homebase for a hiking trip to Gorges Kakuetta (a canyon with a cave, tunnel and waterfalls) and Passerelle d'Holzarte--a narrow footbridge suapended 180 meters above a canyon. Fun! At about 3.8 kilometers roundtrip hike, up … Continue reading Day 6: Family Camping Larrau; Hiking Gorges Kakuetta with Kids
So onwards and upwards towards the Pyrenees we go. Continuing with our plan to travel to villages using smaller roads, we wonder if the French border will actually be open given the coronavirus situation. If it is, will there be some kind of screening or any kind of control? Viewpoint from Puerto de Larrau. Internal … Continue reading Day 5: Crossing the French Pyrenees Mountain Border, Family Camping Road Trip
I tend to have a diarrhea of words so I'll limit these posts to 12 sentences...for now 😊. We finally get to visit this medieval Spanish village of Miranda del Castañar right across from The White Donkey Camping. It still has its well-preserved fortification walls with four gates facing cardinal directions (you know, north south, … Continue reading Day 3, Family Camping Road Trip: Medieval Town of Miranda del Castañar
Yay! Two days delayed but we're finally on the road again, on a family camping road trip in Europe. After 3 months of NOT being able to drive due to the strict coronavirus lockdown here in Spain, we were ready to hit the road. . . Again! Naturally there's a lot of concern about traveling/camping, … Continue reading Day 1, Family Camping Road Trip in Spain After Coronavirus Lockdown
The beauty of being flexible and not having a strict schedule on the road is that when you spot a sign on a highway that grabs your attention, you can always STOP and make a detour to check it out. So, while looking for a place to stop and things to do in the south … Continue reading Day 32 Camping Road Trip 🚗Off-the-Beaten-Path Perouges, France 👨👩👦👦Family Travel Video
Visit the WHAT!??!?!?! Yes, the Large Hadron Collider where nano-little things go bang so we, humans, can learn about the mysteries of our universe and how we are all made of. . . stars. But "What's THE BIG BANG?", my seven-year old son asked. That's the goal: make them ask such questions. Mission Accomplished. Here's … Continue reading 🇨🇭 Visit CERN Switzerland ⚛ Birthplace of the Internet 🆓 Home of the Large Hadron Collider 👨👩👦👦Family Video
Here's our family-friendly, fun and almost FREE things to do in Geneva, Switzerland in one day... with kids or without (for you singletons out there). Check out the "jazzy" video too! Onward and southwards we moved on our camping road trip from the city of bears (Bern) to the capital of peace, the city of … Continue reading Is Geneva Worth a Visit? Day 30 🇨🇭 Camping Road Trip with Kids 👨👩👦👦 Family Video
Life before (and likely after) coronavirus lockdown. . . So, what's that one of the family-friendly things to do in Lausanne, Switzerland if you only have an hour or two? Lake Geneva, of course. at least for us with two young, energetic boys who just wanted to swim in the lake on the return trip … Continue reading 🇨🇭 A Quick Dip in Lake Geneva in Lausanne, Switzerland 👨👩👦 Family Video
🇨🇭Have kids? Here are 3 things to do and best places to visit in Bern, the capital of Switzerland, the city of BEARS that is one of the most beautiful places we have visited as a family during our six-week summer camping road trips across Europe. . . before the corona virus locked us all … Continue reading Things to Do with Kids in the City of Bears 🐻 Bern, Switzerland 🇨🇭 If You Only Have One Day+Family Travel Video
On a family vacation on a "Pillar of Hercules"--the Rock of Gibraltar, UK--we finally made a YouTube video of these little thumb-sized figures called SuperZings that all kids seem to be talking about. The video shows kids at play... FREE PLAY... on Catalan Bay beach in December. It also shows you the beach, the playground, the colorful houses and rock mountain to help you plan your visit. Big Smile!
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