Rome: The Best Museum City in the World
ROME, Italy -- You can't tell by the photograph above where this caption was taken but it was certainly inside the Colosseum. And I must confess I'm not crazy about the idea of organized trips, but when traveling with kids this option is...
Vacation in Venice with Kids
VENICE, Italy -- We arrived in Venice, literally a city that floats on water on the last two days of The Carnival of Venice, an annual festival, that ends with Lent, forty days before Easter on Shrove Tuesday (Fat Tuesday or Martedì Grasso), the...
A unique way to explore The Louvre
The Louvre is at once spectacular and intimidating and for art novices, its sheer size and collection may even prove anxiety-inducing. To avoid shuffling through each corridor aimelessly, it's wise to visit armed with an intinerary or even a guide...
The Ghost Of Elizabeth I
History comes alive at the Royal Palace and Fortress on Tower Hill. Seeing the armory and the dungeons used to imprison queens kings princes and the crown jewels elicits some extra sensory experiences conjuring voices in the walls as if shrieking...
Super Santralistanbul with kids
ISTANBUL, Turkey --- Opened in late 2007 Santralistanbul is a former power station that has been converted into a five-floor museum cum laude modern art gallery space. Most folks in the know simply refer to this museum as Turkey's Tate Modern....
Awesome Athens with Kids
Athens, Greece -- No matter your age, it's a thrill to visit the Parthenon -- one of the world's most famous landmarks. Yet Athens has much more to offer than simply traveling from one magnificent ruin of the city’s classical past to another. For...
Take Your Kids to Museums
It's not going to blow anyone's mind to say that the Van Gogh Museum is a must-see in Amsterdam. When we were there they were in the midst of moving to the Hermitage, so the full collection was not on display. Still, the fraction of the collection...
