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Who's boss?

Posted by Rhonda Mary on Sunday, April 25, 2010, In : travel with children

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 ...

What Kind of a Traveller am I?

Posted by Rhonda Mary on Tuesday, March 16, 2010, In : travel with children

This feature from the blog 501 Places, about how different sorts of travellers approach new places, made me laugh and cringe at the same time.

I’m ashamed to say that I’m a Military General, with everything planned out in the finest detail. On our latest trip to Amsterdam, I printed out a map and marked each hotel, restaurant and sight that we were to visit, then I worked out how we were going to get to each one. With two young boys and a toddler in tow, I wasn’t leaving anything to chan...

Family Holidays: an Oxymoron?

Posted by Rhonda Mary on Tuesday, March 2, 2010, In : travel with children

Having just returned, exhausted, from our latest family odyssey – the Netherlands – I ponder the words of my Takethefamily colleague Dea Birkett on her latest blog:

“I suppose every holiday doesn’t have to be an adventure. Does it?’”

I’m wondering whether, conversely, all holidays don’t change our lives, even if we don’t realise it at the time? Each time we go away, don’t we get to know ourselves and one another a little better? Doesn’t every trip, whether conceived as a...

Kings of the Castle

Posted by Rhonda Mary on Monday, January 4, 2010, In : travel with children

It’s a killer, realising that the kids are moving away from you, that you are no longer indispensable to them. But maybe maturity, as a parent, lies in accepting this is a cause for celebration as much as for sadness.

In October, having climbed one of the towers of Suffolk’s Framlingham Castle with my eldest boys Ethan and Ripley, I stepped out onto the narrow walkway leading around the top of the 13-metre-high curtain walls and felt my legs turn to jelly under me. At first I put it dow...

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Who's boss?

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Kings of the Castle

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