Our April 2018 trip was a press trip organised and paid for by the Vienna Tourist Board. Opinions are our own, and all prices below were checked in October 2026. Our trip to Vienna started…
Fifteen minutes’ walk from the Sagrada FamĂlia, down a straight avenue that points at it, there is a site of twenty-seven modernist pavilions set in gardens. It is a UNESCO World Heritage site, it was…
Quick answer If you want to visit Sagrada Familia, book in advance, if you are coming in high season, at least 1 month prior to your trip. What it costs Ticket Adult Under 30 /…
CosmoCaixa Barcelona: The Best-Value Day Out We Know Here There is an Amazon rainforest inside a building in the hills above Barcelona. It has caimans in it, and piranhas, and it rains on you. Adults…
Most day trips from Barcelona are a town with a ticket office. Montseny is a mountain range, ninety minutes out, that costs nothing to walk in. It’s a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve â beech and oak…
One of the best way ever to do in a big city is to enjoy it from above, and when it comes to stunning views, Barcelona is a must see city. There are a lot…
Mystery Escape, a room escape experience in Barcelona. We had the last lock in front of us and about five minutes of work left. Then the hour ran out. We didn’t escape. And it was…
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…
Lanzarote Experience Tours: Two Private Days with a 4-Year-Old and a Toddler Lanzarote Experience Tours gave us these two days in exchange for this review. Opinions are our own. In November 2017 we spent four…
We spent a sunny October day in Zaragoza with the boys, 24°C and blue sky. We were visiting family who live just outside the city. I also know Zaragoza from the other side: for years…
Farm Stay in Norway with Toddlers: 6 Days on a Dairy Farm September 2017 ¡ updated September 2026 The best way to understand a country is to live in it for a few days rather…
Lillehammer with Kids: Olympic Park, Maihaugen & Day Trip from Oslo Visited September 2017 ¡ updated September 2026 with current prices and opening times We went to Lillehammer with kids on a grey September day…
Visited September 2017 ¡ updated September 2026 with 2026 prices and the Viking Ship Museum closure Disclosure: Visit Oslo gave us a 24-hour Oslo Pass for this trip. Everything else we paid ourselves, and the…
Barcelona has a municipal sailing centre at Port OlĂmpic, and you can go out on a 7-metre keelboat from it for two hours with a skipper. It is one of the best things we’ve done…
We live in Barcelona and we have seven beaches inside the city. Most weekends that we’re not going anywhere else, we get on a train and leave all of them behind. We go to El…
Berga Resort invited us for this stay. The opinions are our own. We stayed at Berga Resort in May 2017, when Damian was four and Marc was one. With a toddler, we needed two things…
Cotton House sits on Gran Via at the Passeig de GrĂ cia end, in the building that was the headquarters of the Cotton Producers’ Guild. It kept the marble staircase, the parquet floors, the panelling and…
La Pedrera is the GaudĂ building with the roof that looks like a chess set â the one covered in chimneys that have been described as veiled women and as helmeted warriors, and which children…
Quick answer Our two Barcelona hotel picks Boutique pick ¡ EixampleThe Cotton House Hotel, Autograph Collection â a boutique hotel in central Barcelona. Check prices Rooftop terrace ¡ Via LaietanaH10 Cubik â by the Gothic…