Our classroom …but our school is at home. When I started blogging about our travels, I had whimsical ideas that I would share about our travels while answering questions about great hotels for families and fun roadside stops. Interestingly, though, most of the questions I get are about homeschooling. Most of the time, the questioners are genuinely curious, but…
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Wooden Shoe Making
If windmills and wooden shoes are merely a stereotype of the Netherlands, the Dutch certainly make great efforts to ensure that the tourists will not be disappointed. Before leaving the Netherlands each of the kids had their eyes on a pair of wooden shoes to take home as a souvenir. With this goal we wandered into the klompenmakerij hoping to…
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A Summer Day in Paris
With only one day to spend in the heart of Paris, it was hard to decide what we should do first. Of course, we wanted to take in the amazing architecture. We also wanted to take it slow and stroll next to some beautiful fountains. But it was the allure of the Eiffel Tower that caught our eye. Paris, TX…
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A Gastronomically Great Race
One of the fun things about being a traveling family is finding ways to learn about new cultures even while we are at home. Reading about the Great Automobile Race of 1908 triggered a memory of the 1965 movie The Great Race. If you haven’t seen this slapstick comedy starring Tony Curtis and Natalie Wood, you should, if only to…
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Cemetery Fun For Kids
Explaining the allure of wandering among antique tombstones can be somewhat enigmatic. Perhaps it is the feeling that cemeteries are much more for the living than the dead. Or maybe it is the photographic opportunities of the stark grey edges of the stones against the greenery and bright blue sky. Whatever it is, I love to stroll around old cemeteries….
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