Europe

  • Copenhagen With Kids: The Rebirth Tunnel

    continued from Banana Split, Hold the Banana Before catching our flight back to California, we decided to extend our travel a few more days, and stay in Copenhagen. I was able to book us a fully furnished, high-end, designer apartments at STAY Seaport. ($250/night including taxes). To get there, from the airport, we took the Öresundståg (O-tag) to the Swedish Railways (S-tag) to the DSB, and got off at Nordhavn.…

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  • Mediterranean Cruise: Banana Split, Hold the Banana

    continued from “Outsiders” Tour of Rome and Venice This was the kids first cruise and they were ecstatic. Walking up the gangway, Greg kept repeating that the ship was “will-wee will-wee big”, with Roy adding that, he just “wanted to go to the bottom of it”. (yeah, no idea.) We were greeted at the entryway by Grandma and Grandpa (who were worrying that our 1PM arrival was “really pushing it”…

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  • “Outsiders” Tour of Rome and Venice

    In late 2017, Doug’s parents started to discuss the idea of taking the family on a cruise to Europe before our niece (11) and nephew (13) became too involved with their extra-curricular activities to join us. At the time Greg was barely three — nine months shy of our “no trips until four rule”.  But, we agreed to consider it. SIx months later we were on our way to Europe.…

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