Family Travel Doesn’t Mean Always Taking the Kids
By Eileen Ogintz Tribune Content Agency The friendly, English-speaking bus driver on the Greek island of Patmos points us toward a local beach taverna where we eat with our toes in the sand. The Wind Star as night falls over Monemvasia, Greece I checked another...
The Galapagos Islands — not cheap, not luxurious, but oh the wildlife and the memories!
Our family with a giant tortoise in the Galapagos Islands 2006 Originally posted May 16, 2011 By Eileen Ogintz The teen stomped around squawking. His mom wasn’t home and his dad gave up trying to help. Could be any household where homework is lost in cyberspace or...
Two weeks in France visiting Paris, champagne country and Normandy via river cruise
Originally posted 2013 By Eileen OgintzDAY ONE — PARIS — Claude Monet certainly knew what he was talking about. The area in the Musee de L’Orangerie in Paris that he created to showcase his famous Water Lilies is meant, he said then, to create a space...
Memories of Monet’s Garden: where a little girl led the way
Originally posted 2014 By Eileen Ogintz Tribune Content Agency I can’t stop smiling. I’m walking in Monet’s famous gardens at Giverny on a sunny day, gardens with nearly 100,000 plants and a riot of colorful flowers, not to mention the famous lily pads immortalized in...
To Norway, the land of fjords, ‘Frozen’ and family fun
Borgund Stave Church dates to 1180 Originally posted 2015 By Eileen Ogintz Tribune Content Agency No, not the Splash Mountain in Walt Disney World or Disneyland, we’re actually in Norway touring the gorgeous fjords with Adventures by Disney where one waterfall is...
Kayaking at the Top of the World
Originally posted 2011 By Eileen Ogintz Schnapps or Whiskey with my hot chocolate? The waiter wants to know. He’s come by my kayak this morning. Our ship, the Lindblad Expedition’s National Geographic Explorer is anchored nearby. It is a...
Families on a different kind of water adventure
By Eileen Ogintz Tribune Content Agency Everyone wanted to be in Doc’s dory boat, but there were only four spots. For the uninitiated, dories are small, 17-foot-long rigid boats that can run a river much more quickly than an inflatable raft. We met Stephen “Doc”...
First Look As The Disney Wish Sets Sail
By Kyle McCarthy, The Family Travel Forum The Disney Wish set sail July 14, 2022, propelled by wishes from godmother Make-A- Wish Foundation and the dreams of thousands of Disney cast members. She is the first in a series of three new Disney Cruise Line ships to join...
The unique Caribbean culture of Curacao
By Eileen Ogintz Tribune Content Agency Do you know your ABCs? We’re talking the ABC islands — Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao, the three westernmost islands of the Leeward Antilles in the Caribbean Sea. Aruba is best known to Americans; Bonaire is a diver’s paradise....
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