All travel carries an element of risk, although most parents – myself included – tend to play it on the safe side, especially with younger kids. For reasons not only of expense but also sheer practicality and the sake of an easy life, most of our family's current wanderings are limited to Europe. I’d love to take my kids elephant-riding in India, surfing in Hawaii and on long-distance trains across Australia, but such adventures will have to wait for I time when I consider the inherent ...

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