TIPS
Getting Around
One of the perks about visiting a city like Barcelona with kids is that you have an immense variety of things to do between the mountain and the beaches that aren't just museums and attractions. And being a city with generally mild weather (if not too hot in summer) you can spend the majority of ...
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PARENTING
Tuesday tips -- bike safety
We live in bike country here in the Netherlands -- because it's so incredibly flat (we have virtually no mountains whatsoever!) a bike is just the ideal method of transportation. Traffic layout has been optimised for bikes, there are dedicated bike lanes everywhere and we even have special bike-lane traffic lights. With biking in mind, I ...
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ESSENTIALS AND TIPS
Velib' now for kids
The Velib' (the Parisian city council bicycle scheme) has had a huge impact on the city, more than anything I have ever seen. Bike paths have popped up all over the place and even the infamous Parisian taxi drivers seem to have gotten used to bikes on the road, at least they have stopped screaming at ...
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