La Molina With Kids: Sledding, Ski School & Real Costs
La Molina is where Barcelona families go when the children want snow. It’s about 145 km and two hours from the city, it has a sledding area as well as 71 km of pistes, and…
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Skiing Near Barcelona With Kids: 5 Resorts Compared (2026/27)
Barcelona is one of the only major European cities where you can be on a beach in the morning and in real snow the same afternoon. La Molina, the closest proper ski resort, is about…
10 iconic places to visit in Barcelona, now with virtual tours.
There was some time, you dreamy of a trip to Barcelona. Or, maybe you visited this beautiful city and want to come back and enjoy it again. During these times, you don´t know when you…
Top free things to do in Oslo.
Oslo, the capital of Norway is considered one of the most expensive cities to visit. On one of my posts about Oslo, I share some tips on how it is possible to visit this beautiful…
Traditional Moldovan Food: 15 Dishes We Actually Eat
My husband and I were both born in Moldova. We have lived in Barcelona for nearly ten years now, and the food on our kitchen table is still mostly Moldovan — zeamă when someone is…
Top 10 European islands to visit with kids
Islands are the easiest family holidays we know: short flights from Barcelona, beaches within reach of every base, and a natural limit to how much driving you can do. These are the European islands we’ve…
Zumaia, another gorgeous Game of Thrones location in Basque Country
Zumaia is the small Basque town where Daenerys lands on Dragonstone in Game of Thrones season 7. That scene was filmed on Itzurun beach, below a wall of rock layers stacked like the pages of…
Moldova with kids. Where is Moldova?
Many of you know that we are expats living in Barcelona for more than 9 years. But few of you know that both me and hubby are from Moldova. A beautiful landscaped country located between…
L’Escamarla Barcelona: Prices, the Paella and Our Verdict
It was a Saturday in November, sunny and not windy, which on the Barcelona seafront is the best weather there is. We’d been walking along the beach with the boys and we were hungry, and…
8 Mistakes Tourists Make in Barcelona (Local, 16 Years)
I’ve lived in Barcelona since 2010. Most of what I know about visiting the city, I learned by watching people get it wrong — from the queue at the Sagrada Família, from the next table…
Santuari de Queralt with Kids: Views, Parking & a Short Hike Near Berga
We drove up to the Santuari de Queralt on a perfect October day in 2019: clear blue sky, autumn colours in the valley, and eagles riding the wind below the cliffs. It’s the most spectacular…
A weekend in Andorra. Andorra in summer with kids.
Andorra is a popular weekend road trip from Barcelona. At only a couple of hours from Barcelona it makes for a refreshing getaway between nature and mountains. The Principality of Andorra is a micro state…
Frigiliana with Kids: How to Get There & What to See
The short version Frigiliana is regularly called one of the prettiest villages in Andalusia, and unlike a lot of places with that label it holds up. Whitewashed houses picked out in blue and purple, cobbled…
Nerja with Kids: Caves, Beaches and a Day Trip Plan
The short version We did Nerja, Frigiliana and the caves in a single day with two small children, and I was genuinely surprised they made it. They did. We also made two entirely avoidable mistakes,…
Hammamet, Tunisia. Medina Solaria et Thalasso.
This May, I had to travel with work to this touristic place Hammamet, Tunisia. It was hard, as I had to be out of home for 4 days, as kids stayed at home with daddy.…
Besalú: Catalonia’s Medieval Town and Its 12th-Century Bridge
Besalú looks like a film set, and the odd thing is that nobody has filmed there. You cross a fortified twelfth-century bridge over the river Fluvià — seven uneven arches, two towers and a gatehouse…
Best Sunsets in Fuerteventura: 5 Spots and What Time to Go
We watch the sunset on every island we go to. In Fuerteventura we managed it nearly every evening of five days, and the boys started asking about it before dinner — which is the point…
Fuerteventura with Kids: Best Areas, Beaches & Things to Do
Disclosure: part of this trip was hosted by Pierre & Vacances, who provided our accommodation at Origo Mare. We paid for our own flights, car hire, food and everything else, and nobody had any say…
Pierre & Vacances Origo Mare Review: A Villa with Two Kids
Disclosure: our stay at Origo Mare was hosted by Pierre & Vacances as part of a collaboration. We paid for our own flights, car hire and food, we chose room-only rather than a meal plan,…
Spartan Race Mallorca: Our Super Race Experience in Palma
As mentioned on our previous post, our main reason to go to Mallorca, was daddy´s participation at Spartan Race in Palma de Mallorca. It was his second time to participate in such a competition. First…