‘Turning kids into travelers, one experience at a time.’ is a great lead-in for Anne Patrone’s site. Finding Frommer’s 500 Places to Take Your Kids Before They Grow Up (first edition) on a bookstore shelf set the wheels in motion and the explorations began in earnest. She and her husband, destination lists in hand, are now checking them off as they expand their children’s travel horizons.

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Ashley Curtin is a transplanted New Englander now living in California. She is also a self-proclaimed seafood junkie. Whether seeking out shrimp or oysters on the half shell, her travels take her where she can satisfy her addiction and partake of those edible gems of the emerald oceans.

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Finally some sun more sun and too much sun The night bus drive from Lake Titicaca was very beautifull all snow covered but we arrived in Tacna Peru very early in the morning and jumped in one of those taxi to go across the border. This is by far the best way as the taxi driver help you go through all the paper stuff at the border.Arica is the first town we stayed in hoping to grab a quick b

I'm getting a lot of great suggestions and ideas from friends that have been to Ireland before. Three common themes are emerging as truth 1 Don't plan ahead too much enjoy making each day an adventure and rely on the locals to share with you the next best place to go and see 2 No matter what direction we go in we can't go wrong every sight is beautiful north south east and west 3

Ahh Morocco... still deciding if I like it or dislike it. The people can be coarse rude and even aggressive. But they can also be nice generous and hospitable. The latter being few and far between. The other travellers here can be hoity toity Europeans in short shorts with white legs gleaming in the sun and cameras the size of my backpack draped around there necks. Or they can be a completely

From Conil de la FronteraNow in Spain at the site near Cadiz where we stayed before heading to Morocco. We both felt a sense of relief on reaching Spanish soil and realised that we had been a little tense throughout the stay. Nothing major but rather a state of 'readiness' expecting to deal with unsought attentions.Clearly we stand out as rich outsiders and a source of goodies. Even as we left the

3511 Barb We left Santiago this morning around 9 am after having our usual breakfast and then taking a pic of our cute waiter. Off we head for Panama City...praying that the car makes this one last trip Uneventful ride except the other side of highway is packed...heading OUT of Panama City...our side..not so bad. We begin to hope the city has emptied and we will have it easy thru the city.

Well theres not much to write about Spain. We had an incredible resort thanks to Tom Kathy and Interval time shares A beautiful Marriott Resort that is far more luxurious than any regular resort you can imagine because it cant even really be classified as a resort. Its more like a 2 bedroom 1200 sq ft condo complete with in suite laundry and a full kitchen. It was truly beautiful and th

Left off the last blog promising to leave Cameroon soon and after two more weeks a highly entertaining funeral more lessons in African business and a good Valentine's Day party here it was a lot less flowers and chocolate a lot more barhopping 'till 5 a.m. it was finally time to leave the capital equatorbound.Seeing as both my Cameroonian and Gabonese visas were expired my plan was t

The last time we were in Thailand we met a couple on Koh Samet who had been to Koh Lipe and reckoned that it was the best Thai Island that theyd ever been to so on this recommendation we decided to give it a go. Koh Lipe pronounced Leepayis a tiny speck in the Andaman sea it lies 70KM off the South West of Thailand and has no airport the only way to get in or out is via ferry. The Ferry

Its my fifth week in Italy and now that Terry is here time is flying by. He arrived on Friday and met us in Venice Bride of the Sea Queen of the Adriatic. It was Carneval so there were tens of thousands of people walking the streets. In fact when I was attempting to lead a group of students to a mask making seminar we were caught in a narrow street in a huge crowd of people and no one

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GuangzhouMarch 5th and 6th 2011 We are in love with Guangzhou we are on a tiny island warm air and cool breezes coming off the river a welcomed change The hotelthe famous White Swan is a madhouse and kind of odd. It is swarming with adoptive families and then you have the business men and not many are friendly. Our guide for this leg of the journey is Joselyn she is very kind.S

We hired a couple of motorbikes today 4 for the day and went around the outskirts of Sihanoukville to the market where all the locals shop. The amazing thing was that we weren't hassled by anyone and just browsed around until I realised why. We were on our way back home when it started to piss it down Cambodian style so we stopped at a bar for some shelter and a beer. We came on this tackylo

Friday in this case was my most favourite day of the week not only because I am that much closer to the weekend and not because I get to party and not worry about school but because today was my first soccer game with my new Istanbul soccer team. I made sure I got enough sleep the night before and I made sure I ate healthy meals and drank water all day long in preparation to play my first gam

As accommodation was so expensive in Shanhaiguan I decided the next day to head on to Beijing where I'd meet up with Pete Hannah her boyfriend and Petes elder brother Simon. Beijing was actually really nice I only spent a day there so didn't get to do all of the cultural shizz that I'm sure will be around forever. I'm sure Ill see it sometime in the future Instead Pete Simon and I

We have finally arrived in Adelaide and are staying at the most amazing caravan park. In fact it could be better described as a resort green spacious by a most beautiful beach jumping pillows playgrounds heated pools even a restaurant if required and glorious weather to boot We arrived here on Thursday and spent the first two days just relaxing at our resort heaven. The boys needed s