Insider tips on Paris
Travelling doesn’t have to be an expensive exercise. With careful budgeting, and a bit of insider know-how, you can enjoy a majestic city like Paris without emptying your wallet. These hot tips will help you on your journey.
Accomodation
Paris can be quite expensive when it comes to accomodation, but there a plenty of options for the budget conscious traveler too. There are many decent hostels in Paris that start at 20 euros for beds in sha ...
 
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Category Archives: Family Time
Europe Vacations
I will simply put it this way. Trips to Europe with kids can be terrific fun but they can be quite the opposite as well. We had trip before to Europe, yet this time is was more pleasant, calm even. What did we do? We simply took the train to go everywhere. Flexible time, magnificent scenery and they don’t cost as much as we think.
We decided to take the train as after all every family does so in Europe, and specially in France. The best way t ...
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Seeing Eiffel Tower, Gangnam style!
Okay now this is some news which I wanted to share for a while now! We were coolly visiting Paris, this day, me and my two adorable gremlins and we ended up near Eiffel Tower, obligatory part of any visit to France! What we saw and what we experienced was something unique. The date was 5th November. Now you are asking what happened on this date? Was the Eiffel Tower closed, was there some kind of national event we were not aware? Well the thing i ...
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Germany with the kids – fun!
My wife and I took our three kids to Germany for the summer holiday to introduce them to a different culture and to take them to some serious theme parks! We decided to get a rail pass and travel all over the country. It’s a large country and the cities are very different from each other partly because of the Wall and partly because of the influences from the surrounding countries like Poland, Austria, Czech Republic and France and so on. We fl ...
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Travel with the First Great Western to discover Bath
Travelling by the First Great Western, departing from London Paddington to Bath will guarantee to a complete relaxation. Indeed Bath is world known for its hot springs, Roman Baths and spas. A visit for the superb roman remains will let you discover its fine architecture. This Unesco world heritage site has more to offer – museums, galleries and gardens. Truly a unique town to visit.
In fact Bath has been welcoming visitors for over two thous ...
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Family bloggers trip experience
Nicole and Cameron Wears travel around the world and share their unique experiences in their blog “Traveling Canucks”. This summer they are travelling in Europe for the first time with their baby son. Nicole and Cameron were one of our lucky winners of the Rail Europe bloggers challenge. Sharing their travel tips using Rail Europe Travellers Guidebook App on Facebook they won a seven day train trip around Europe but the questions is, how do y ...
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Thalys, a smart way to discover northern Europe
Thalys, the high speed train which links 19 key cities in northern Europe including Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam and Cologne, is a smart way to travel, in comfort and at great speed.
The famous red trains offer a relaxing ambience and spacious seating with broad reclining chairs and comfortable head rests to help you enjoy your trip.
Each seat also has an individual reading light so passengers can chat or read on evening journeys across Europe.
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Windmills, Waffles and Castles and Kids!
My husband and I just got back from a European adventure with four of our good friends and all our kids. Imagine three families (6 adults and 8 kids!) all visiting some of the best sights in Europe by train. Well it could have all ended in tears and although there were a few (sometimes there just aren’t enough waffles – even in Belgium!) we had so much fun! The kids range in age from 7 up to 14 so quite good ages really as the young ones ...
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A sweet tour of Europe with Elipsos
Elipsos Trenhotel offers great connections to some amazing European destinations and what could be better than visiting the top European countries for desserts: France, Spain, Italy and Switzerland.
Train travellers can discover the best way to indulge their sweet tooth while visiting these countries.
Here are the top European sweets, which will tantalise any train travellers’ taste buds:
In Paris don’t miss crème brûlée, macaroons and cr ...
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The little Mermaid and other adventures!
For my mother’s 70th birthday I arranged for her and my daughter to join me on a business trip to Amsterdam. I had a two day meeting but it seemed such a shame to go all that way without seeing more and it tied in perfectly with mum’s birthday so I planned a 10 day trip to Holland and Denmark. Katie, my daughter is six and is at that age when she wants to know everything so when I mentioned the Little Mermaid was in Europe (she always thinks ...
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