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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

Meet & greet airport parking

March 5, 2013 by Gretta Schifano 8 Comments

I flew from Heathrow Terminal 5 recently and was offered the chance to try meet and greet parking there, which was great. Following instructions which had been mailed to me, I drove into the short stay car park via the Fast Track lane and parked near the lifts in a designated bay. I then handed my car […]

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Categories: The journey
Tags: Airport parking, family travel, Heathrow, meet & greet parking, T5, travel

Driving on ice in Madesimo, Italy

February 14, 2013 by Gretta Schifano 4 Comments

This is Omar, an amazing driver who showed me how to enjoy driving on ice. That’s quite an achievement because I’d had two car accidents on black ice in the year prior to meeting him, and so was very nervous about this experience. Ice-driving When we first arrived at the Madesimo track and saw the car speeding around, […]

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Categories: Active, Italy, Winter sports
Tags: ice-driving, Italy, Madesimo, travel

Top 5 family trips

November 26, 2012 by Gretta Schifano 4 Comments

surfing dog. copyright Gretta Schifano

Since we got back from our half-term trip to Turkey, Bella and I have been thinking about where we’d like to go next year. Here’s a round-up of five new family trips we like the sound of. (I’d love to go on any of them. Bella fancies Sri Lanka). Mountain Kingdoms www.mountainkingdoms.com is offering a […]

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Categories: Seasonal
Tags: Dolphin watching, Egypt, family travel, Jordan, Morocco, new family travel, Sicily, Smith and Family, Sri Lanka, travel, UK

National Trust family working holidays

November 19, 2012 by Gretta Schifano 2 Comments

clearing woodland on a national trust working holiday at stackpole

My husband had a wonderful time yesterday afternoon outside clearing up leaves and attacking shrubs with the hedge trimmer. At Easter we were guests on a National Trust family working holiday to Stackpole in Pembrokeshire which I wrote about for The Independent. The youngest loved the day our group spent chopping down shrubs in the woods […]

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Categories: Elsewhere, Wales
Tags: gardening with kids, kids, National Trust, National Trust working holidays for families, Pembrokeshire, Stackpole, travel, volunteering, Wales

The best flight ever

November 7, 2012 by Gretta Schifano 6 Comments

infinity pool at dionysos, turkey

We went to the Dionysos estate in Turkey with Exclusive Escapes for the October half term holiday. I’m writing about the trip in print, but wanted to write here about how we got there because it was my best experience of air travel since my first plane journey 25 years ago. When I heard that […]

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Categories: The journey, Turkey
Tags: airports, Dalaman, Exclusive Escapes, kids, luxury flight, Ryanair, Stansted, Titan Air, travel, Turkey

Things to do in Malaga with kids

September 21, 2012 by Gretta Schifano Leave a Comment

malaga, spain

We loved our day in Malaga this summer. The eldest was not keen on our parking spot, by the bullring, but we distracted her from what happened in the bullring and walked through the old part of town to the Picasso museum. The artist was born in the city, although he never returned after the […]

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Categories: City, Coast, Spain, Things to do in...
Tags: family, Malaga, Picasso, Spain, tapas, travel

Birling Gap, East Sussex

September 5, 2012 by Gretta Schifano Leave a Comment

birding gap, east sussex

Birling Gap is one of my favourite places. It’s between Brighton and Eastbourne, but is unspoilt and beautiful, and owned by the National Trust. It’s part of the Seven Sisters chalk cliffs and has seen some perfect days out throughout my life, the most recent being with my Mum and kids a couple of weeks […]

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Categories: Coast, Elsewhere
Tags: beach, Birling Gap, East Sussex, kids, rock pools, Seven Sisters, travel

Designed to Win exhibition at London’s Design Museum

August 25, 2012 by Gretta Schifano Leave a Comment

olympic mascot wedlock by the thames

Everyone in our house loved the Olympics and is looking forward to the paralympics next week. We watched the Olympics on TV but were lucky enough to get some tickets for the paralympic athletics. George (9) and I have been enjoying Jon Snow’s Paralympic Show http://www.channel4.com/programmes/jon-snows-paralympic-show every day on Channel 4. When we saw the piece about […]

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Categories: Attractions, City, London, Seasonal
Tags: blind football, David Beckham, Design Museum, Designed to Win, Headley Court, Jon Snow, London, London 2012, murderball, Olympics, paralympics, Thames, travel, wheelchair rugby

V&A exhibition – Heatherwick Studio: Designing the Extraordinary

August 22, 2012 by Gretta Schifano 3 Comments

heatherwick spinning chair

This exhibition runs until September 30th as part of a season of events celebrating British design, and my daughter Bella and I went along to see it at the weekend. Although London’s V&A Museum is free, there is a charge for the exhibition: it cost £10 for the two of us. The tickets are timed, […]

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Categories: Attractions, City, London, Seasonal
Tags: cloud bridge, day trips, design, Designing the Extraordinary, exhibitions, Heatherwick, London, Longchamp zip bag, Olympic cauldron, spinning chair, Thomas Heatherwick, travel, V&A, Victoria & Albert Museum, Worthing swimming pool

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