Friday 20 January 2017

Surviving a city break with children

Travelling to any city can be difficult when you have young children in tow, however with some carful planning it can be a great experience for all here is some of the things we did to make it successful. Before our trip I took  Mya to the local library to learn more about the culture, food and language for our upcoming trip.

Planning for any holiday is important, but for city breaks for short durations its defiantly something that I would recommend. Careful planning means you can make the most of your time in your chosen destination.

 For our trip to Paris I put together a list of places we wanted to visit as we was only there for 3 nights, and didn’t want to waste time deciding once there what to do. 



We took the open bus tour, and I can not recommend this enough as this was a  great  option for keeping our daughter from complaining about her tired feet, and gave us the opportunity to explore the main tourist attractions with very little fuss hopping on and off at our own convenience . They are many different tours operating in Paris our tour provider was Foxity we find they were miles cheaper then others we checked out, and as Mya was under 5 she was able to travel for free. Its a lovely way to explore the cites monuments and attractions including the Eiffel TowerArc de Triomphe  and the famous Champs-Elysées boulevard.

We enjoyed navigating ourself's around the Paris Metro system and visited the Eiffel tower where our little one took a ride on the carousel,  strolled around the Notre Dame enjoying a Nutella Crepe and spent time exploring the Jardine du Luxemburg- this park was fabulous,  so clean, and well maintained, Mya enjoyed a ride on the donkey's, they also have a lovely play area for the kids, and although there was small fee to pay I felt it was well worth it.



We travelled via Eurostar so, download a mixture of games, and kids programmes for our little one to watch, included in her backpack was

Headphones
Lego pieces
Colouring pages and pens
couple of reading books
And some arts and crafts projects that you can pick up from any stationary store.

I packed all of the projects into folder as we didn't want to bring an entire colouring book as they can be bulky- you can pull pages out or print pages from the internet.

To minimise weight and load we packed all Mya's clothes in our luggage. We had a success trip and are looking forward to returning in the near future..













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