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…
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…
Right after our family holidays on the beautiful island of Mallorca, I had a business trip to Ibiza. And no other place as Hard Rock Ibiza. Hard Rock Ibiza Hotel – review Hard Rock Ibiza…
We stayed at Alua Calas de Mallorca for four days at the end of the 2019 season, in October, with Damian (6) and Marc (3, still learning to swim). Back then the hotel was called…
We live in Barcelona, and for years Andorra was “the place people drive to for skiing and cheap perfume”. Then Dumitru signed up for the Spartan Race there in June 2019, so we went with…
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…
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,…
We spent two days in Málaga with kids at the end of June 2019, with Damian (6) and Marc (3). We arrived from Granada, where it had been 40°C. Málaga’s 24°C and the sea breeze…
We were guests of Sercotel Málaga for this stay. The opinions are our own. We spent two nights at Hotel Sercotel Málaga at the end of June 2019, with Damian (6) and Marc (3), after…
Alhambra with Kids: Tickets, Dress Code and Tips for Families We almost didn’t get in. We’d had a busy few weeks at work and at home before our Granada trip, I assumed we’d buy Alhambra…
Granada Card Review: Is It Worth It for Families? We spent three days in Granada with our two boys, then 6 and 3, and used the Granada City Card for almost everything: buses, the tourist…
Gran Hotel Luna de Granada Review: Our Family Stay We landed in Granada on an early flight from Barcelona and were at Gran Hotel Luna de Granada long before check-in. By 11am it was already…
We’ve taken our kids to three of the four Balearic Islands, at three very different ages. Mallorca when Damian was 2, and again with both boys at 6 and 3. Menorca at 5 and 2.…
Twenty minutes on a train from Plaça Espanya, there is a UNESCO-listed Gaudí building with no queue. That sentence does most of the work of this article. While several thousand people a day file through…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
Quick answer We’ve been coming to Ciutadella since the boys could walk, and it’s still the park I send visiting families to first. Seventy acres of it, free, ten minutes from the Gothic Quarter, with…
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…