Now that Euan can walk (and wants to walk/run ALL the time) I was a bit apprehensive about how our recent flight from Edinburgh to Geneva would go. My hand luggage was bursting with books and toys but I envisaged him screaming to run up and down the aisles just as the seatbelt sign came [...]
I am delighted to introduce this guest post from my good friend Katy Leiper. Katy and I met when our babies were just bumps and have been good friends ever since. We recently took a trip to Pitlochry with two other friends and their babies but here Katy share her experiences of flying long haul [...]
My sister came to visit yesterday and she had brought with her ‘Euan Month by Month’ – several photos of my baby that she’d recently had printed to put in an album. In a lot of the earlier photos Euan was sleeping and I started thinking about the days when he was so small that [...]
If you’re planning a long car journey with your baby you may well be asking yourself the questions I was before our first trip – how is my child going to cope with the long journey? How will I keep him/her amused? Is he/she going to cry the whole way? Are we mad?! Our first [...]
When to Fly Do you always end up with a nasty cold after a flight? Bear this in mind when planning your trip. Your baby’s immune system is at its weakest in the first 6 weeks so if possible delay your trip until after that. If you are going long haul then a night flight [...]
Your first car journey, particularly if you’re on your own, may be daunting. I remember being very impressed when a friend of mine managed to drive to my house with her newborn when she was less than a week old. And she was on time! On my first car journey with Euan I remember turning [...]
Here are my tips for finding family friendly accommodation: Tell the hotel that you are travelling with a baby/child. On our travels we’ve found our hotel/b&b hosts to be extremely accommodating. In France we were given a room on the ground floor so that we didn’t have to worry about getting the buggy/stroller up the [...]
A lot of what you pack will depend on the type of travelling you are doing. If you are hopping on a plane and going to a hotel for a week then you probably won’t have to worry about a travel cot, for instance. This is a list of things I take when taking my [...]
On our road trip of Europe my husband and I learnt a thing or two about the easiest way to pack the car so that everything we needed was easily accessible and there wasn’t too much mess! Here are my top tips for packing your car for a long journey: Make a list of what [...]
I knew that our first destination as a family was going to be to Europe before our son had even been born because good friends of ours had invited us to their wedding in Lake Lugano, Switzerland. My husband and I had a few lengthly debates about whether to fly (at the time this was [...]
