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Take a DIY Chocolate Tasting Tour in Brussels, Belgium

This post is for anyone visiting Brussels and wondering where to find the best chocolate in Brussels. I’ll cover everything from the best Brussels chocolate shops to chocolate workshops in Brussels. Read on to discover your own DIY chocolate tasting tour in Brussels! As we said goodbye to the Netherlands and made our way into …

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Our Favorite Kid-Friendly Travel Gear

Traveling with kids is an adventure and one my husband and I highly recommend doing. There’s no right age to travel with kids – we started when Lou Lou and Jaf were both babies, taking them along on work trips. It wasn’t until Lou Lou was 4 (and Jaf was 2) that we decided to …

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The Family-Friendly Guide To Food In Brussels

What’s the first thing that comes to your mind when someone says Belgium? Belgian chocolates, right? That was our exact thought when we visited Brussels for the first time. Other than eating our weight in chocolate, we really had no expectations on the food scene in Brussels. Brussels, the capital and largest city in Belgium, …

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Our Favorite Travel Memory in 2015

We did a lot of traveling in 2015, from RV’ing through Spain, Italy, Austria, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands to visiting family and friends in Morocco, Lebanon and the UAE. We wondered…. What were our kids favorite travel memory in 2015? With the US State Department issuing global terror warnings and many of our friends …

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Swimming Topless – Inappropriate for Girls or Not?

My daughter is 8, she’s very self conscious about her body. For reasons unknown to both her dad and I she does not like to show her belly button and always chooses a swim suit that covers her navel. We like her modesty and always encouraged her to pick a swim suit she would feel …

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Why You Shouldn’t Order From a Kids Menu

At every single restaurant we dined at this year the “kids menu” we received while visiting countries in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Europe included the same items; Cheese Pizza Pepperoni Pizza Spaghetti Chicken Nuggets Hamburger Cheeseburger Macaroni and Cheese Hot Dog You would expect to find these popular, unhealthy foods from restaurants across …

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Why You Should Stay at a Campsite in Europe this Summer

The one activity that brings our family closer and binds us together is travel. Visiting different cities, countries and exploring different cultures through food brings excitement and joy to our travel planning. It has been almost one year since we started our European journey (June 2014), driving cross-country in “Homer” our beloved RV. We’ve grown …

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Take Your Child On A Food Tour

We’re lucky. Our children were born and raised in Hawaii, the most racially diverse state in the United States as there is no real majority. With 23% of Hawaii residents claiming to be multi-ethnic (two or more races), in Hawaii you’ll find many groups adding their own variety of culture to our local way of …

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How to Turn Your Kids Into Foodies

Trying different cuisines is like picking different colors of clothes from your closet. It gives you a sense of novelty, adventure, and it opens your eyes to something new allowing you to be creative. Jaf and Lou Lou, if you haven’t guessed, are Multicultural. I, their Mom am Hawaiian and their father Lebanese, which automatically …

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Belgium’s Most Wanted Waffle: Liege Waffle

In every restaurant in Belgium, in almost every menu you’ll find “Belgian Waffle” in the dessert section. And at every restaurant we almost always order it… the Belgian waffle. However, after ordering and eating it at several different restaurants we noticed they either looking like this; or this; Both taste completely different, yet on the …

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