Looking for advice on how and what to pack? On how to survive a plane or car ride with babies, toddlers, or older children? The ABC's will teach you what you need to know to plan and execute a successful family travel strategy.
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The Trouble with Travelling with School-aged Kids
Recently, I've been looking back fondly at the freedom of baby and early-childhood.
From a vacation planning perspective, that is.
Those were the best of times when planning a holiday. No school schedules to worry about, organized competitive sports obligations, or critical peer network commitments to maintain. We could (and did) travel in…
Memories | Digital Photo Books
Your fabulous holiday trip is over, and you've downloaded the 1000+ digital photos from your 1, 2 (or more) cameras. Now what do you do? Do you preserve those photos and memories for viewing, or leave them piling up, unseen and unloved on your computer's hard drive?
In the digital age, it seems harder than ever to keep up with photo albums and…
Motherly Advice
My friend and fellow travelling mom Isabel recently returned from a trip to Austria, Croatia, and Slovenia with her husband and 8 month old baby. It was a wonderful trip, but it wasn't without its challenges and trying moments along the way.
Isabel has some very good advice for other moms travelling or thinking about travelling with babies, and…
The Border
There's nothing like the threat of a baggage or vehicle search to strike fear into the heart of any traveller. Every time I inch closer in the car or passenger line-up at customs, my heart rate goes up along with my body temperature.
Yes. I have a fear of customs agents.
I think this goes back to when I was about 8 years old, and we were coming…
R + D - Tools to Building a Better Holiday Plan
Planning a holiday? Don't know where to start? The world is literally at your fingertips! The internet offers more information and travel planning sites than you can ever hope to read.
Here are some of our favourite thetravellingmom.ca resource websites.
tripadvisor.com - Need to find a good place to eat in New York or hotel in Honolulu? This…
Food Glorious Food
Your plane has been delayed for 2 hours and the kids are starving. You had planned to feed them with the breakfast service on the flight (rare these days, I know), but that's out.
But you are not worried because you're a modern travelling mom who's planned for every possible outcome.
These days, in-flight meal service can be quite sporadic, if it…
The Check List
The phrase 'I have nothing to wear!' does not hold true for those savvy travellers who know how to pack their suitcases. When I travelled as a child, flying was a very special occasion that required us all to dress up for the flight in our Sunday best. Old habits die hard, and I still do this today, and the benefit in my mind is that flying is…
How to Pack A Suitcase
I was taught the Art of Packing a suitcase by my mother. She was a master at filling every nook and cranny to ensure every item found a place in our bags. It's a simple system that incorporates many common sense elements, and I swear by it when packing for a weekend or a one-month holiday.
1. Gather the items required from the Check List in one…
Notes on a Suitcase - Carry-on!
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When I was a child, my brother and I were each responsible for our own suitcase, a brown, vinyl ten-pound (empty!) monster with no wheels for carrying comfort.
Suitcases today are a marvel of engineering. Lightweight - under 5 lbs - with high-tech rolling wheels and in many cool designs to fit every style and budget. It's got to be lightweight,…
Baby on Board
I was one year old for my first plane trip. I don't remember the experience of course, but there is one story from that journey that is worth retelling.
My parents, who were very experienced travellers, decided it would be a good idea to give me some Gravol prior to our overnight flight overseas. The medicine would knock me out and I would sleep…
The Value of Education through Travel
We are all experiential learners.
As wonderful as it is to read about places and things that interest us, to experience those places and things allows us to learn and appreciate our world, and our own lives, in a deeper, more lasting, and more meaningful way.
In planning family travel with young children, the opportunities to open up their minds…
Family Travel - Why it Matters
Why is it so important to plan and experience travel as a family?
Today's working moms and dads are extremely busy people. We have our jobs, our duties, our responsibilities, our daily routines that rule and govern our lives. Our children also live extremely busy and structured lives - school, homework, organized sports, artistic pursuits,…
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