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10 ways to save time at airport security

July 25, 2014 by Gretta Schifano Leave a Comment

Boarding a plane. Copyright Gretta Schifano

There are many things to remember when you’re going thorough airport security these days. If you have young children in tow it’s even more complicated and you never seem to have enough arms to hold everything. But you can make things easier for yourself by knowing what to expect and by being prepared. Here are […]

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Categories: The journey
Tags: airport security, family travel

How to pack a family travel medical kit

July 11, 2014 by Gretta Schifano 23 Comments

Suitcases packed. Copyright Gretta Schifano

What medicines do you pack when you travel with your kids? For me, plastic bags are a medical essential since our first family trip to Greece. Tonsillitis Our journey home from Greece just before my daughter’s second birthday was horribly memorable. She started vomiting as the plane took off and carried on at intervals throughout the two flights […]

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Categories: The journey
Tags: EHIC, family medical kit, family travel, illness on holiday, travel insurance

Top 5 things to do in Singapore with kids

July 22, 2013 by Gretta Schifano 6 Comments

Orang utans at Singapore Zoo. Copyright Singapore Tourism Board

  This is a guest post by Aimee Chan, who is the editor of  the family travel website Suitcases & Strollers, and who is based in Singapore. When she’s not working, Aimee enjoys hanging out with her young son and here she shares her favourite things to do with children where they live.  Sentosa It’s tacky, kitschy […]

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Categories: City, Singapore, Things to do in...
Tags: family holidays, family travel

Family Days – share yours

July 12, 2013 by Gretta Schifano 14 Comments

Family Days. Copyright Gretta Schifano

This is a weekly Linky to share your posts on family days out with children. If you’ve had a good day out with the kids recently then please tell all, we’d love to read about it and may even want to go there too! From the lovely park up the road to somewhere fab you’ve found […]

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Categories: Family Days Linky, Seasonal
Tags: family activities, Family Days Linky, family days out, family travel

Wild camping

July 8, 2013 by Gretta Schifano 2 Comments

Camping. Copyright Gretta Schifano

Sponsored post Phoebe Smith loves wild camping so much that she’s written a book about her experiences: Extreme Sleeps – Adventures of a Wild Camper. In case you don’t know (I didn’t) wild camping is  sleeping in remote places, away from campsites. Phoebe’s first wild camping trip was in Australia and that inspired her to repeat […]

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Categories: Active, Where to stay
Tags: camping, extreme sleeps, family travel, Phoebe Smith, wild camping, wild camping with kids

Packing for a Trip with Friends

June 27, 2013 by Gretta Schifano 4 Comments

Suitcases. Copyright Gretta Schifano

I need to pack for a trip which I’ve been looking forward to for a year. I’m setting off tomorrow, early, but I haven’t even thought about what to take because it’s a Trip with Friends. This is completely different to a Trip with Children. Packing for that kind of trip involves several open suitcases […]

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Categories: The journey
Tags: family travel, packing

Cap de Creus by catamaran

June 10, 2013 by Gretta Schifano 4 Comments

Cap de Creus. Copyright Gretta Schifano

Catalonia’s beautiful Costa Brava is the easternmost point of Spain, bordering France on the Mediterranean coast. I was there during the half-term holiday with the eldest on a BritMums parent blogger trip, as guests of the Costa Brava tourist board. I’ve spent a lot of time in Spain, but this was my first visit to […]

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Categories: Coast, Spain
Tags: Cap de Creus, catamaran trip, costa brava, family travel

Family trip to Austria

June 3, 2013 by Gretta Schifano 14 Comments

Austrian Tirol. Copyright Gretta Schifano

I love walking, but my youngest most definitely does not. We live in a beautiful, rural area with National Trust woods and farmland just behind our house but he’s not keen on going for a walk, even with our lovely dog. So when the two of us were invited to spend a few days in […]

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Categories: Active, Attractions, Austria
Tags: Austria, Elmi's Magic World, family travel, Hexenwasser, KaiserWelt, Scheffau, Tirol, travel, Wilder Kaiser

5 things I learnt at SeaWorld Orlando

May 24, 2013 by Gretta Schifano Leave a Comment

Sea dragon, SeaWorld Orlando. Copyright Gretta Schifano

My first trip to Florida was to review SeaWorld Orlando’s Antarctica: Empire of the Penguin. It was the company’s biggest ever expansion of a single attraction and I was sent there before it opened in order to write a newspaper feature about it. It felt very odd visiting Florida for the first time with no children […]

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Categories: Seasonal, USA
Tags: Antarctica: Empire of the Penguin, family travel, Florida, manatees, Orlanod, penguins, SeaWorld Orlando

Thorpe Park review

May 20, 2013 by Gretta Schifano 4 Comments

Tidal Wave, Thorpe Park. Copyright Gretta Schifano

Thorpe Park is a theme park in Surrey with roller coasters and other rides, and we had a great day there on Sunday. As I mentioned in a recent post, having looked at the shouty Thorpe Park website I was a little apprehensive about how our family trip there would pan out. However the kids, 14 and 10, […]

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Categories: Attractions
Tags: family days out, family travel, Thorpe Park, Thorpe Park family review

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