TEAM FAVOURITES
Team Favourites : The 10 Best Items for Sun Protection
We want to help prepare you for long sunny days and bright blue skies that childhood memories are made of. And we all want those beautiful sun-filled days to be safe and healthy ones too. So in preparation for summer holidays and vacations we have compiled our top 10 items for the best sun protection. ...
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TEAM FAVOURITES
Team Favourites: Twenty Travel Essentials
We have compiled 20 of the best travel essentials just in time for the summer holidays to begin! With lots of travelling under our belts and lots of great discoveries made along the way, this is a post the Babyccino team got really excited about. Hopefully these tried and tested items will soon accompany you ...
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INTERVIEWS
5 Questions with Nadine from i-escape
With the February holidays behind us, and first hints of Spring amongst us, the minds of us Northern-Europe based Babyccino girls quickly wander to sunnier days to come, and to our next holiday! Yours too? Dreaming of beaches, adventure and city destinations often leads us to i-escape -- their Kids Collection offers a hand-picked collection ...
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PLACES TO VISIT
A weekend at the Opal Coast in France
We've discovered that the Côte d'Opale (Opal Coast) in the upper North-west corner of France is aptly located for a Babyccino Kids meet-up -- it's only a few hours drive from Paris and Antwerp (where my dad lives), and it's also just a 20 minute drive from Calais, where the channel tunnel connects France directly to the UK. So ...
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FOOD
A market in France
When we stay in our house in France, we always make sure to make the trip to the local market which takes place in Maurs, every Thursday morning. The ride by itself is worth it -- the beautiful hills with the fog still hanging over the valleys... The market is a 'farmers market' in the ...
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PLACES TO VISIT
A bit about our house in the Cantal, France
Every summer, we spend a few weeks in our family house in the Cantal, in France. The Cantal is an agrarian region located in the Auvergne, in the south-centre of France, with mountains, meandering rivers and the most picturesque little villages imaginable. It's such a beautiful part of the world, and I thought it would be ...
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ESSENTIALS AND TIPS
Five great European holiday destinations from Kid & Coe
Kid & Coe is a holiday rental site specifically for families. It was launched last Autumn and it's been great watching their site and inventory of properties grow. They offer family-friendly destinations all over the world -- from beach houses in Brazil to city apartments in New York, or stylish flats in London to countryside retreats in Tuscany. Most ...
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ESSENTIALS AND TIPS
The 4 Reasons hotel in Turkey: a heavenly stay!
We just came back from a week in Turkey where we stayed in the most beautiful, relaxing hotel: the 4 Reasons hotel on the Bodrum peninsula. It was like a dream! The hotel is just amazing: it's located on a hill top, overlooking old olive orchards with the little village of Yalikavak behind it, located on ...
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FOR MUMS
Family vacations
I admit I'm lucky -- my academic work gives me a lot of flexibility and, especially in the summer, I can take a lot of time off to spend with my family. My husband is not as free but still he spent 2 weeks with us in the mountains. This is absolutely normal in Italy. Depending ...
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