Quick answer Living in Barcelona means we’re always looking for new family plans in a city we already know well. So when Big Fun Museum invited us to visit, we turned it into a Sunday…
Almost every visitor to Barcelona thinks about seeing flamenco, and almost every article about it tells you it was passionate and mesmerising without telling you what it costs or when it starts. We went to…
Barcelona, a city known for its vibrant culture, stunning architecture, and beautiful coastline, offers some truly unforgettable experiences. One of the most unique ways to see the city is by taking a scenic boat ride…
Quick answer Barcelona’s natural history museum sits out at the Fòrum, in a building that looks like a rusted triangle dropped on the seafront. It’s further out than most visitors go, which is exactly why…
Most people in Barcelona walk past Palau Güell without going in. It sits on a narrow street just off the bottom of La Rambla, it has no spires and no queue snaking round the block,…
There is a fourteenth-century monastery at the top of Barcelona where a closed order of nuns lived from 1327, with a three-storey Gothic cloister that is one of the largest in Europe. Adults pay €5.20.…
Switzerland is renowned for its chocolate, and during our visit, we were fortunate enough to explore the Cailler Chocolate Factory. This immersive experience left us with not just delicious memories but also fascinating insights into…
If you’re looking for a unique way to explore the stunning canals and natural beauty of Empuriabrava, renting an eco boat is an experience you won’t want to miss. Recently, our group of four had…
Everyone who comes to Barcelona thinks about the football. Almost nobody thinks about the basketball, and for a family with a sports-mad child, that’s backwards. FC Barcelona’s basketball team plays at the Palau Blaugrana, an…
Quick answer For my 35th birthday, my husband gave me a session at Flotarium Barcelona. It turned out to be one of the most genuinely restorative things I’ve done in this city — and also…
Arashiyama Monkey Park — officially Iwatayama Monkey Park — is a mountainside in Kyoto with around 120 to 170 wild Japanese macaques living on it, and one of the best views over the city at…
The Arashiyama Bamboo Grove is about 500 metres long. You can walk it in fifteen minutes. It is free, it never closes, and at eleven in the morning it is one of the busiest 500…
We went to Round1 in Osaka twice in one trip, which tells you most of what you need to know about whether children like it. What I did not understand until afterwards is that we…
The thing nobody tells you about Universal Studios Japan is that your park ticket does not get you into Super Nintendo World. That needs a second, separate, timed ticket — and families find this out…
You take your shoes and socks off at the door, and at some point you walk through water up to your knees. That’s the part nobody quite prepares you for, and it’s why teamLab Planets…
In April 2023 our boys, then 7 and 9, touched a dolphin at Dolphin Island on Sentosa. They talked about it for the rest of the trip, and we have the photos. From memory it…
An hour inland from Barcelona, near Igualada, people fly. Not metaphorically — there are thermals over the Anoia countryside good enough that this is one of Catalonia’s centres for air sports, and you can go…
Two hours inland from Barcelona there’s a reservoir on the Segre where you can rent a kayak, paddle out into a wild fauna reserve, and be the only people on the water on a weekday.…
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…