A note first: I stayed here on a work trip in May 2019, without the kids. They were at home with Dumitru. So this isn’t a “we stayed as a family” review. It’s what I…
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…
Quick answer AN ARCHITECTURAL TOUR WITH KIDS IN BARCELONA. WALKING TOUR OF BARCELONA HOW TO MOVE AROUND IN BARCELONA? The most instagrammable places in Barcelona. 1. Parc Güell Parc Güell is that kind of place,…
Quick answer One day in Barcelona is not enough, and that’s fine — plenty of people get exactly one, off a cruise ship or between flights, and the question isn’t whether it’s enough but how…
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…
Quick answer We’ve lived in Barcelona since 2010, and the single thing visitors most reliably get wrong here isn’t which sights to see — it’s which ticket to buy. Most people either overpay for a…
Barcelona is a good city to leave for a day. Not because there’s nothing to do in it — we live here, there’s plenty — but because within two hours of Plaça de Catalunya you…
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…
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…
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…
