Updated on January 15, 2024 If you’re planning a trip to Puglia with your family, make sure Polignano a Mare is part of your itinerary. With its famous beach, whitewashed lanes and piazzas, and excellent gelato, it’s worth a stop! I’ve been visiting Italy since 2004, as a guide, vacation planner, and now mom of […]
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Updated on January 15, 2024 Helpful tips for choosing the right kids shoes for Italy – for your baby, toddler, or younger child. Based on my experience guiding families and helping them plan trips to Italy since 2004 and exploring Italy with my own three kids. You’ve booked your flights, decided on your Italy itinerary,
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Updated on January 15, 2024 Are you planning on visiting Matera with your kids but are overwhelmed with all of the things to do? Do you need help deciding where to stay in Matera with your kids? I get it – it’s kind of a confusing place – but I’ll help clear things up below
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Are you traveling to Italy this summer and wondering if there are any summer camps your kids can participate in? Or maybe you’re an Italian resident and you’re exhausted searching for a summer camp for your child. Unfortunately, most summer camps in Italy are advertised by word-of-mouth, paper flyers handed out at school or a
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Updated on January 15, 2024 Locorotondo is my favorite small town in Puglia, so it always makes it onto my Puglia itinerary, whether I’m visiting solo, for work, or with my kids. If I visit Locorotondo on my own, it’s a leisurely visit – I wander the small lanes, stopping to check out views, have
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Updated on January 15, 2024 Puglia is an excellent destination to visit with kids and one of the main reasons is because the towns are manageable with little ones. Ostuni, Puglia’s Città Bianca (the White City) is just one of many small cities and towns in the Valle d’Itria that are perfect for a quick
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Updated on January 15, 2024 Bergamo isn’t the first place you think of for a visit with kids, but that’s actually part of the reason I think it makes a great place to visit as a family – there’s something in Bergamo from toddlers to teens to adults, so at the end of your time
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Updated on January 8, 2025 Italy is one of the most incredible places in the world to travel with children! Here’s why: In one country, you’ll find incredible: I live here with my three kids and I’ve been traveling throughout Italy with them since 2014. I also spent over 10 years traveling with families in
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Updated on January 20, 2025 Castelrotto (aka Kastelruth in German, Ciastel in Ladin) is one of the prettiest and most charming villages in the Dolomites, thanks to its frescoed buildings, cobblestone center, and dramatic mountain scenery. It’s been one of the Borghi Più Belli d’Italia (Most Beautiful Villages in Italy) since 2019. I’ve been visiting
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Updated January 8, 2025 If you’re planning a visit to the Dolomites with kids, I highly recommend using the fairytale village of Fiè allo Sciliar (Völs am Schlern, in German) as a base for all or part of your trip. I first visited in 2004 as a cycling guide, and I’ve continue to return (at
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