Italy with kids, from a family that keeps going back. My sister’s family lives in Turin, so we spent four winters there, from the Christmas lights to day trips in the snow. Our boys won two youth basketball titles in Pesaro, and we spent a week exploring Sardinia in spring. These guides are built from those trips, with real prices and honest notes on what didn’t work.
Turin and Piedmont: Turin with kids: 15 things to do · One day in Turin · Turin at Christmas & New Year · Where to stay in Turin with kids · Egyptian Museum with kids · Stupinigi · Borgo Medievale · Where to eat in Turin
Day trips from Turin: Bardonecchia · Lake Maggiore · Milan
The Adriatic: Pesaro with kids · Hotel Savoy Pesaro review · Gradara Castle with kids
Sardinia: Sardinia with kids · Is Zuddas caves
Lake Como (work trip): An evening in Como · Pasta cooking class
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…
During our three-day business trip to Chiasso in October 2025, our company organized several team activities that made the experience both productive and memorable. I’ve already shared my stay at the Mövenpick Touring Hotel Chiasso…
In October 2025, on a three-day work trip to Chiasso, just over the Swiss border, our company took the team across into Italy for an evening in Como. After spending the day in team meetings…
We went to Pesaro for basketball and came home with two trophies and a new favourite stretch of the Adriatic. Around Halloween 2024, both our boys, Damian (11) and Marc (8), played a youth tournament…
We stayed at Hotel Savoy Pesaro around Halloween 2024, when both our boys, Damian (11) and Marc (8), were playing a Halloween youth basketball tournament in Pesaro. We flew from Barcelona to Bologna, rented a…
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…
We’ve spent whole weeks in Turin, because my sister lives there, but plenty of people only get a day: a stopover, a day trip from Milan, or a weekend with one day lost to travel.…
My sister’s family lives in Turin, so for a few years our Christmas holidays had a fixed address: her flat, a direct flight from Barcelona, and a week of panettone and cold, bright mornings. We…
When we travel with the boys, we usually rent an apartment and cook. In Turin it’s different: we stay with my sister’s family, and when we do go out, it’s because she knows somewhere worth…
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…
Lake Maggiore is about 1.5 hours’ drive from Turin, close enough for a day trip, and we did it in early January 2019, on the last full day of a Christmas holiday at my sister’s…
Is Borgo Medievale open? (checked October 2026) No. The Borgo and Rocca Medievale have been closed for restoration since January 2024. Turin’s tourist board lists the closure through 2027, though the city plans to reopen…
On the first day of our 2018/19 winter trip to Turin, my sister said there was a place she wanted to show me. From her photos, I was sure she meant Venaria Reale, which we’d…
Discover Sardinia with kids is a priceless opportunity. To share with them a different country and culture it is lovely. Sardinia is a huge island, and you will never get bored when visiting the area…
On our 2017/18 New Year trip to Turin, my sister offered to take the kids for a day, and Dumitru and I did something we hadn’t done since becoming parents: a day trip, just the…
For four winters, Christmas for us meant Turin. My sister’s family lives there, so we’d fly in from Barcelona, my parents would arrive in time for New Year’s Eve, and for a week three families…
Our private tour with Bitan Tour was hosted. We paid for our flights, apartment and car ourselves, and all opinions are our own. A Sardinia family holiday sounds simple: an island, beaches, Italian food. Then…
Sardinia was a really quick decision for our family holiday and we didn’t plan anything. We thought to take the apartment just in the middle of the coast of the island and to enjoy the…