Family travel, written down
Practical, honest posts on planning trips with kids — what works, what doesn't, and the tools that actually help.
Sourdough Bread Experiments
Our family's sourdough journal — seven honest bakes from a kitchen on Tinos, and the 15 mistakes we keep learning not to make.
Read the journal → ❤ 17Copenhagen With Kids — The Perfect City for a Family Trip
Four days in mid-April with a 4- and 7-year-old, mostly on cargo bikes. Tivoli, the Experimentarium, a Lego workshop at the DAC, cherry blossoms at Langelinie, cardamom croissants, and the case for why this small, calm, bike-first city is the ideal family destination.
ESSAYA Dream Trek · SpainTrekking in the Pyrenees: A Refuge-to-Refuge Crossing of Aigüestortes
A dream that came true. Early-June crossing of the Catalan Pyrenees, walking from one guarded high refuge to the next — with Barcelona bookending the trip, alpine lakes still thawing, and wildflowers pushing through the last of the snow.
ESSAYChasing Shade · GreeceTwo Parks in Northern Greece Worth the Detour: Naousa & Drama
On a summer heatwave road trip through northern Greece, two parks stood out — the ancient plane-tree grove of Alsos Agiou Nikolaou near Naousa, and the crystal-clear spring pools of Agia Varvara in the middle of Drama.
ESSAYAn August Escape · GreeceChasing Shade and Cool Water on the 15th of August: An August Getaway to the Zagorochoria
Four days in Papingo, the Voidomatis river, and the Aoos gorge above Konitsa. A stone-carved rock pool, a 5.5 km walk beside a turquoise river with two small kids, and a raft ride back to where we started.
ESSAYMountains & Memory · GreeceKerkis to Tsiknias: The Little Peaks Have the Best View
Climbing Mount Kerkis on Samos with my parents in 1996, and thirty years later taking my eight-year-old up Mount Tsiknias on Tinos. A family ritual passed from a mother to her son.
ESSAYA Weekend in the Mountains · GreeceA Summer Weekend in Potidaneia: Fir Forest, a Mountain Village, and a Little Film Festival
Two days in a small stone village at 850m above Nafpaktos. Marked trails through the fir forest, a taverna in the square, and the Pt-Shorts Potidania Film Festival projected under the pines.
ESSAYA Year on the Island · GreeceTen Months in Tinos: From Autumn Heather to Summer Thyme
We moved to Tinos for a school year. Ten months later, we came back to Athens knowing the island by its wild flowers — a family photo journal of a full seasonal turn on a small Cycladic island.
ESSAYTrip Story · GreeceVia Ferrata in Tinos with My Son: A Father & Son Day on Exomvourgo
The longest via ferrata in the Cyclades, climbed with my 9-year-old. A photo journal from the south face of Exomvourgo — cables, ladders, the wind that never stops, and the kind of view that makes a kid go very quiet.
ESSAYReal Itinerary · PortugalFamily Trip Planner for 2 Adults + 2 Kids: A Real Example Itinerary
What does an AI-planned family holiday actually look like? A complete 8-day Lisbon & Cascais itinerary for a family of four (kids 5 and 8) — flights, accommodation, day-by-day plan, real screenshots and a full €3,500 budget breakdown.
ESSAYFeatured · AI & TravelHow I Used AI to Plan a Family Trip (And What Actually Worked)
Planning a family vacation used to take weeks. Here's how AI changed that — a fair look at ChatGPT, purpose-built planners, a real Crete example, and what AI still can't do for you.