Category: Planning
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From Express Trains to Italian Driving: Lessons Learned Getting Around Europe with Kids
Booking flights was one thing, but getting around once we landed was a different challenge. Our plan was to use a mix of trains, rental cars, and public transit. We looked into private cars for a few airport transfers, but they were more expensive and came with their own challenges. In the end we took…
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Beyond Hotels: Finding Our European Sanctuary with Kids
We are fortunate that we are able to stay mostly with family on this trip. This put accommodations on “easy mode.”. However, we still needed to find places for our first few nights in Rome and for the night before our 6:30 AM flight from Naples. We looked at hotels in both cities. As in…
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Jet setting in a family way: Booking specific flights
Flight planning was a doozy, so this is a two parter, you can catch up on our overall strategy of preferring one-way flights in part one. Getting started We built our flights in stages. Timing mattered for our trip. Our Italian family wasn’t out of school until mid-July. That set the beginning of the European…
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How to get there from here: Air travel overview
After the initial excitement of the sabbatical and figuring out our destinations, the dream had to get real: booking flights. Planning travel can quickly get you into red strings attached to push pins across news clippings territory if you aren’t careful. “Wait maybe we want a 10 hour layover in Istanbul!?” Here’s how to stay…