We started our two week road trip through Northern Portugal and Spain on Saturday. We packed the car in advance the night before so we could basically get up, feed the kids and go. Of course there were last minute things to do in the morning but we were in the car by 10:00 and […]

Welcome back to San Francisco! I hope you came dressed in layers and are ready to take to the hills. I suggest starting where we left off.  North Beach – San Francisco’s Italian neighborhood and home to crooked Lombard Street. If you are staying at one of the hotels I mentioned in A Weekend with […]

There are so many ways to help kids explore the world we could hardly begin to list them all.  Of course, one of the best and most exciting ways (in my opinion) is through cooking and eating.  There will be more to come on that in future posts and with our upcoming e-recipe book.  For […]

My sister in law is Irish. This past holiday season she and my brother traveled from New York to Dublin with their one year old and two-and-a-half year old boys. I’ll just say their flight over was such that three months later they still can’t bring themselves to talk about it and they’ve sworn off […]

We all know our own limits when it comes to tasting and drinking wine.  And that’s obviously very important.  It’s just as important, however, to know your kids’ limits as well.  No, of course I don’t mean their limits with respect to tasting wine.  I mean their limits with respect to how many wineries they’ll […]

A friend once said that air travel is like going to the spa: she gets to sit down, read a magazine and someone brings her a drink. She clearly doesn’t have kids…. As you all know, when you travel with kids, you often don’t sit much, you for sure don’t get to read a magazine, […]

Welcome to San Francisco. You can call it the City or San Francisco or occasionally SF but please, please, whatever you do, don’t call it San Fran or Frisco or any other nickname that comes to mind. You’ll peg yourselves as tourists immediately (if you haven’t already done so by showing up in the city […]

We used to live in San Francisco. As huge wine geeks, we took ample advantage of our proximity to Napa and Sonoma (and Anderson Valley) by making frequent day trips to “wine country.” It was so easy to hop in the car, drive the hour plus up Highway 101, drop into a winery or two, […]