Travel to Dubai with Kids
Discover tons of adventures and places to explore when you travel to Dubai with your kids with Neha Singh’s travel tips and insider advice.
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Why Unschedules May Work Best When Traveling with Family
Charlotte Davis learned a lot about traveling with little kids during a family road trip to Las Vegas. She shares why unschedules might make traveling easy.
Leave the Kids Behind and Divorce-Proof Your Marriage with a Couple’s Getaway
Leave the kids behind if you want to divorce-proof your marriage. I’m not an expert but I know that blissful marriages require routine communication.
Day Trip to Tallinn, Estonia from Stockholm
Learn why Tallinn, Estonia should be your next day trip from Stockholm.
The Culture Shock is Free at Walmart for Returning Americans
“What is it like when your American friends visit you? Are you totally overwhelmed with culture shock?” Our Swedish neighbor asked one night at dinner. “No, the culture shock doesn’t happen when friends and family visit because we’re still in Sweden. They are only a tiny piece of America in an ocean of what’s familiar. […]
Monday Morning Emails May be a Future Preview of Our Lives
Every parent is afraid they are making a mistake when raising their children—abroad or domestically—and Jo Parfitt and Terry Anne Wilson are no different. In their book, Monday Morning Emails, they often question if their decision to move their families frequently throughout their children’s childhood results in their children’s inability to cope with difficulty. Monday Morning Emails […]
Länsmånsgården’s Christmas Market Review
Continue to live vicariously through our journey to various Christmas Markets in our Swedish town and beyond. So far, we have traveled north to Sigtuna, and Gävle, and stayed closer to home to Wira Bruk, and now Länsmansgården. Länsmansgården is an old mid-18th century property featuring a manor and two-story cottage built in 1743. The […]
Why You Should Give Some Cities a Second Chance
Have you ever met someone who raved about visiting a particular city and you wrinkled your nose and shook your head, “Gah, no. That was not our experience at all!” How can people have such different impressions of the same place? Maybe the weather was bad, your kids were whiny, or you were tired from […]
Meeting the Parents…Without the Boyfriend
By Carrie Elizabeth Akarslan You wouldn’t normally meet your boyfriend’s parents by going on a twelve-day tour of Japan together. Of course, our relationship doesn’t follow the “normal context, ” and so this is a story about how I met my Turkish boyfriend’s parents for the first time. I grew up on a small ranch […]
Family Travel Guide to Öland, Sweden
Ice cream, go-karts, beaches, and alpacas? Explore this tiny island to find some hidden gems off the east coast of Sweden in this family travel guide. In European countries, it is common for the entire country to shut down in August as people head off to various resorts and tourist destinations. In Sweden, that […]