an expat family exploring Europe…and beyond!
I can’t believe that after four years of living here we are still finding hidden gems that we’ve never heard of in Italy (within driving distance!). We’ve explored quite a lot of the Italian lakes region but somehow hadn’t heard of this charming little lake. Lake Iseo is located in Lombardy, in northern Italy, and […]
Bordeaux is a gorgeous city to spend a long weekend in! While there are plenty of things to do if you’re traveling with kids, what’s even more fun is if you have a chance to take a little romantic break for two to this heart of the wine world. Lucky for us, we had the […]
If you’re not from Europe, chances are you’ve probably never heard of this city. And if you are European or living in Europe, you may only know of this place as a place to fly into when visiting Milan, especially for low-cost air carriers. BUT, I’m here to tell you that the little Italian city […]
There is certainly something to be said for shoulder season travel. You do risk less than perfect weather and maybe everything won’t quite be open yet for the season, but the trade off is getting to have beautiful beaches like this to yourself! We think it’s worth it, what about you? This year we spent […]
I don’t do travel advice posts very often, but since our kids have been to over 30 countries on soon to be 4 continents, I guess that sort of makes us pro’s on traveling with kids. That doesn’t mean we don’t still have epic travel fails with the kiddos because we do…it’s not always smooth […]
Spring has finally sprung around here (hooray!!), but just before it did we had a little girls’ getaway weekend to the mountains. Grindelwald, in the Bernese Oberland region of Switzerland, is a gorgeous year round destination. We love it in the summer, but I really had my heart set on seeing it in the winter […]
