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 sin 2010, and the food on our kitchen table is still mostly Moldovan — zeamă when someone is ill or cold…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
4 Days in Barcelona: A Local’s Day-by-Day Itinerary
Quick answer Four days is the length where Barcelona starts working properly. Three days covers the sights; the fourth is what lets you leave the city for a day without feeling you’ve stolen time from…
Barcelona bucket list: walking tour of Barcelona. 10 must see places in Barcelona.
This walking tour is created mainly for the first time visitors. As this walking tour of Barcelona includes 10 main places to see while in Barcelona. Those can be discovered in only 1 day. We…
1 day trip to Geneva. Things to do in Geneva.
As we had to travel to Turin, Italy, I almost had no time to write about all our experiences that we had on our previous travel to France. In one of the days we stayed…
Bardonecchia With Kids: Ski Areas, Prices & Day Trip From Turin
Ninety minutes on a train from Turin and you’re at the foot of a mountain that hosted the Olympics. Bardonecchia took every snowboarding event of the 2006 Turin Winter Olympics — both halfpipes, both parallel…