After having read and enjoyed Amy Welborn's Rome-with-kids travelogue (see the heading "Rome Trip" in the left sidebar on her main site), it was nice to see a similarly positive article and related sidebar in today's Star Tribune by Jenny Deam, who with her husband took her three small kids to Tuscany.
We haven't attempted that sort of vacation yet (we did manage Maui a few weeks ago), but I hope we do sometime, and she really makes it sound fun. And she pulled 'em out of school for the trip --- even better!
I second some of the recommendations she made, including the one about bringing the portable DVD player (me, I'd rather have my laptop). It's not that it has to be DVDs, it might be some other absorbing thing, but I've noticed that the stimulation of a trip needs to be offset by "down time" that includes something familiar. Letting the kids watch a video in the evening or before naptime would work for my family; for other kids, it might be books on tape or card games.
I wouldn't have skipped Rome though!
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