Ghent

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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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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Camping near Medieval Castles in Ghent, Belgium

When we planned to drive into Belgium, we decided early on we would not camp in Brussels for the following reasons; we were right in the middle of summer and the traffic in the city was horrible we’ve been to Brussels before, it’s a small city and wanted to explore the surrounding cities this time. …

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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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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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Frieten, Frites, French Fries or Patat?

Whatever you call it, we’ve been eating this daily during our visits to the Netherlands and Brussels. Frites (let’s just call it this since we’ve gotten used to it), is an extremely popular snack with the Dutch and Belgians. Usually served in paper cones and topped with mayonnaise you can find it practically everywhere you …

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