With Christmas Day (and POD’s eighth birthday!) just a few weeks away, we’ve pulled together a few of the best gifts for little adventurers. Whether it’s making the journey easier, keeping them entertained or treasuring those special memories.
We’re all for gadgets that make our lives a little easier whether we’re travelling or at home. We’ve got a superb bundle to give away this month. A new 3rd Generation Echo Dot and an Amazon Smart Plug which works with Alexa – pretty much everything you need to start your smart home.
With Christmas only five weeks away (how did that happen?), we thought we’d take a look at some of our favourite gifts for travellers. Whether it’s products that are useful when we’re on our travels to things we love to have at home. We all want to capture those memories and inspire future adventurers, don’t we?
If you’re heading to Venice, depending on how much time you have, it’s worthwhile building in a trip to see some of the islands. With it being 7 year old POD’s first time in Venice, we opted for a half day tour to Murano, Burano and Torcello. Burano is around 40 minutes from the capital of northern Italy’s Veneto region, famed for its lacemaking and colourful houses.
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We had a feeling as soon as we arrived our time at Puy du Fou was going to be special. Situated just an hour’s drive from Nantes airport, it’s ranked one of the best parks in the world with over 2 million visitors a year. You might not have heard of Puy du Fou before but believe me, when I tell you, it’s extraordinary. This theme park had no rides, instead, there are spectacular daytime and evening performances themed around French history, period villages and authentic onsite accommodation.
The way we travel changed significantly when we became parents, particularly when POD started school. Of course, we didn’t stop exploring, we just went about our adventures in a different way. We even wrote a post on why it’s important for kids to travel on our parent & lifestyle blog. My fellow family travel bloggers feel exactly the same with their adventures both near and far reflected in their Instagram feeds. Here are just a few of the family travel bloggers I’d recommend you check out on Instagram, make sure you give them a follow and do have a read of their blogs too.
Famed for being the inspiration for Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, couples flock to Verona’s Casa di Giulietta in the hope of finding everlasting love. There they can rub the right breast of the Juliet stature to be lucky in love, have a photograph taken on the stone balcony and visit the museum with its costumes from the Renaissance era.
We’ve just returned from Venice, the capital of Italy’s Veneto region. While we’ve visited this magnificent city before, it was a first for our seven-year-old daughter POD. You might not think of Venice as being child-friendly but there’s an abundance of things to do both in and out of the city. We’ll be sharing where we went in another post but for now, here are some photographs from Piazza San Marco taken at sunrise.
If you’re a regular visitor here, you’ll know we’ve spent a fair amount of time in Northern Spain. In fact, over the last couple of years, we’ve taken road trips around Cantabria and Asturias, not to mention exploring the Huesca, Zaragoza and Teruel provinces. In a stark contrast to its southern counterpart, Northern Spain remains largely untouched by tourism. I’m sure I could write a list of many things to do in Northern Spain but for now, let’s stick with seven. If you’ve not been before, here’s just a taste of what you can expect.
