Tag: by car

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    Overnight stay in family room

    Family room vs. parents’ holiday and hotel restaurant vs. self-catering. Two issues we’ve had to deal with over the last five days. Fridge: we asked the hotel for a refrigerator and lo and behold: no problem at all to get a minibar-sized refrigerator for our room. So nothing stood in the way of self-catering, at…

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    About traveling with children: Day trips and travel essentials

    Many things on the following list only come to mind when you write them down, as I did. It’s quite a lot that comes together when you’re traveling with children -be it babies or toddlers – which for us means 9 and 28 months respectively. At almost one or two years old, the little ones…

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    Brexit travel

    Entering England by ferry from Ijmuiden (Amsterdam) to Newcastle upon Tyne with a DFDS Seaways ferry It’s not as bad as getting out of Egypt again (see our trip here), but still we had to show the red passport booklet three times (after we had to upload it compulsorily to DFDS, the ferry provider, in…

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    An American road trip – an open letter from a German

    Day 5 – from D.C. to Branchville Now our little American roadtrip comes to an end and we’re on the way back from Washington, D.C., I’m sitting in the car next to Daniel trying to list our observations when it comes to US driving. doubled fines for speeding – everywhere. Guys, just simply double the…