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This site is really peoples' stories, your stories of travels abroad with your children. These stories become the basis for "fun things to do." Listening to your tales, we feel as if we're there too. | ||
| Thank you (not in any order), Sue and Mark Warner, Laura Whitney, Dale Graham, Andrea and Richard Ehrgott, Louise Schraa, Adrian Vickers, Tom Welch, Barbara Welch, Sam Welch, Kathy Levitt, Deena Tyrrell Grossman, John Callan, Martin Pepper, Lynn Meisch, Donya Daian, Laurie Becklund, Jordan Lederer, Ned Lederer, Liz Dupuy, Sharon Seto, Steve Ediger, John Carnochan, Beata Ritz, Toby Volkman, Nick and Barbara Rosenlicht, Marilyn Brady, Luciana Silva, Nina MacConnel, Eduard de Jong, Barbara Groth, Catherine Martin, Deborah Fross, Jennie Preston, Fred de Jong, Ghislaine Gery, Mark Opperman, Eliane Slesberg, Dan Recht, Ana DeVedia, Scott Lake, Sebastian Hans, Dane Manes, Paul Kleppner, Jacee McHugh, Aya Sakimoto, Kim Sterling, Den Dolde, Roy and Michelle McDonald, Stavros Macrakis, Katy Galbraith, Sara Carnochan, Gini Walsh, Katy Galbraith, Marge Densley, Don Campbell, Sarah Blumenfeld, Richard Herrell, Glennia Campbell, Douglas Danel, Dale Graham; Brian DiBartolo, John Worth, Richard Herrell, Maura Greenman, the Agbanyani family, the Rudman family, Deborah Lustig and her family, Claudia Fainguersch, Iain Urquhart; Beth Pollock; Genesia Alves. | |||
| Thanks to Glennia Campbell and The Mother's Club of Palo Alto & Menlo Park for "Baby's First Flight: Traveling with an Infant." | |||
| Thanks to Maureen Kringen for assistance on graphic design. | |||
| Thanks to Chronicle Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Bloomsbury Children's Books, Capstone Press, Clarion Books, Roaring Brook Press, Cricket Books, Viking Children's Books, DK Publishing, Scholastic Inc., Candlewick Press, Enchanted Lion Books, Kane/Miller Book Publishers, Front Street Books, Lerner Publishing Group, Holiday House, Children's Press, Walker & Company, Philomel Books, Atheneum, Simon and Schuster Children's Publishing, HarperCollins, Random House, Soundprints, Oxford University Press, the Penguin Group USA, Walter Foster, Dawn Publications, Henry Holt and Company, David R. Godine, AOL Time Warner Book Group, Little Brown, Scholastic Library, Sterling Publishing, Frances Lincoln, Barefoot Books, Rizzoli - Universe, Hyperion, Tuttle Publishing, Tundra Books, Orca Book Publishers, Groundwood Books, Houghton Mifflin, Harcourt Children's Books, National Geographic, Bloomsbury USA, Birdcage Press, for review copies of books. | |||
| And special thanks to Paul and John, the best travelers. | |||
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Thanks to John Carnochan, Kathy Levitt (England), Mark and Sue Warner (Australia), Scott Palamar (Costa Rica), Javier Arboleda (Spain), Sharon Seto and Steve Ediger (India), Nick and Barbara Rosenlicht (Italy, France, California), Aman Dhillon (Italy, Germany, California), Beate Ritz and Stephen Barr (Germany), Jacee McHugh (Guatemala), Richard Ehrgott (Malaysia), Roy McDonald (Bali, Greece), Aya Sakimoto (Japan), Tom Welch (Italy), Lillian Carr (Italy), Conrad Young (San Diego), Evelyn Young (San Diego), Don Campbell (train photo), Glennia Campbell (China), Stavros Macrakis (Greece), Stephanie Yee and David Rivas (Paris), Pais Barton (Santa Cruz), Eduard de Jong (Switzerland), Kitty Rudman (Namibia and Botswana), Deborah Lustig (Kenya) for photos on this site. | ||
| Travel Tips article "Choosing a family tour package" – family kayaking in Alaska courtesy of Thomson Family Adventures, boy and an elephant in Thailand courtesy of Intrepid Travel, family biking courtesy of Backroads ©Backroads/Ben Davidson. | |||
| Travel Tips article "Homeswap" photos courtesy of Home Base Holidays. | |||
| Copyright © Photodisc for the following photos – Mont Saint Michel; Gargoyle Overlooking Paris; Notre Dame; Marseilles; Waterfront at Nice; Chateau Chenonceaux - Loire Valley, France; Pantheon - Rome, Italy; Tuscany View; Duomo in Milan, Italy; The Duomo; River Arno; Leaning Tower of Pisa, Detail; Field in Europe; Autumn at Loch Ness; View of Edinburgh; Eileen Donan Castle; Sunrise over the Thames; Apartments in Buenos Aires, Argentina; Fitzroy National Park, Argentina; Santiago; View over Wailing Wall at Dome of the Rock; Pagoda and Dragon Snow Mountain; Windmills in Spain; Plaza de Espana; Iguazu Falls; Moreno Glacier in Argentina; El Morro Fortress, Havana, Sydney Opera House; Brandenburg Gate, Berlin, Germany; Castle of Charlottenberg; Lake Louise; Banff, Alberta, Canada, San Francisco cable car; Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, Heian Jingu shrine. | |||
| Copyright © Corel Corporation for the following photos – A mountain in the Dolomite Alps, Murano; St. David's Head, westernmost point of Wales; Brecon Beacons National Park; Maritime Theatre, Hadrian's Villa; Pont du Gard, Provence; Berney Arms Windmill, on Langley Marshes, Norfolk Broads; Neuschwanstein, Germany; Roman baths, Bath; Gabrielle and Jean, Auguste Renoir; Hadrian's Wall, England; Lake Villarica and volcano, Chile; Llechwedd slate caverns, Baenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd; Valley of the moon, Atacama Desert, Chile; Pompeii ruins from 79 A.D. eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, Italy; Piazza Grande, Santa Maria della Pieve, Arezzo, Tuscany; Picnic in Dentelles Hills, Provence, south of France; Snowdon horse shoe, Capel Curig, Wales; Torres Del Paine National Park, Patagonia, Gray Lake, Chile; Wild horses in the Camargue, France; Standing stones, Carnac, Brittany; Llyn Padarn and Dolbadarn Castle, Snowdonia, North Wales; Caernarfon Castle and slate quay, Wales, U.K; Elaborate dim sum display, Maxim's Palace Restaurant; Birds at the Bird Market in central Hong Kong; Aberdeen, city of granite and roses; Ullswater, Lake District, England; Tokyo-Imperial Palace, lantern on slope of pond; Robin Hood's Bay at dawn, North York Moors; Mosque, Cordoba; Rooftops of Old Seville; House of Shells, Salamanca; A coconut tree on a sandy beach, Goa, India; Canterbury, Kent; Tintagel Castle, North Cornwall; Castlerigg Stone Circle and Blencathra, Cumbria; Shetland ponies, mare and newborn foal; Ewe and lambs in meadow, Yorkshire Dales, England, U.K.; Brighton Pavilion, England, U.K.; The Moon Pond, Studley Royal, Yorkshire, England, U.K.; Shakespeare's birthplace, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Warwickshire, Eng; Arab spice market, Moslem quarter, old Jerusalem; Shrine of the Nativity marking Christ's birth, Bethlehem; Caesarea's inviting beach and crusader fortress; Domes of St. Peter's; Myrtle's Court, Alhambra, Granada; Soft coral, Red Sea; View of Dead Sea from north side, Israel; View of Sea of Galilee from south shore, Israel; Massada, Israel; Ballet Folklorico de Mexico; National Cathedral (Mexico City); Aztec Calendar; Cruising The Canals; Pyramid Of The Sun; An "Atlante" Or Warrior Colossus;"Jizo" Statue, Jindaiji, Tokyo;Shinjuku Park, Cherry Blossoms - Tokyo, Japan; Maple Leaves And Temple - Mt. Takao; Tsurugaoko Hachimangu Shrine - Kamakura, Japan; Kamakura, Japan; Plaster Deity Displayed Near A Repulse Bay Beach; Skyline In Background; A Double-Decker Tram In Aberdeen; Fishermen At Cheung Chau Island;Gondola Tour, Venice; Gondola In The Canal, Venice; Gondola Traffic Near Little Bridge, Venice; Dolomite Landscape, Punting on the river Cam, Cambridge, England; Hunslett Mill, Norfolk, England; Stratford-Upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England;Boscastle Harbor, Cornwall, England;View of the Loire River Valley, France, Canal in Bruges, Belgium; Harlech Castle, Wales; Conwy Castle, Wales; Beaumaris; Vallandry, the Loire Valley; Caerphilly, United Kingdom; Orkney, Skara Brae;Mallaig; Oban Castle Estate; Highland Cattle; Edinburgh, Castle Area; Orkney Islands, Cliffs; Orkney Islands, An Estate;Edinburgh, Greyfriars Bobby; House in Luneburg; Statues in the big garden, Herrenhausen, Hanover; House in Luneburg; Roman Imperial thermae in Trier; Old town hall, Trier; Old bridge, Heidelberg; Cathedral, Trier; River Rhine and castle; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Frankfurt; Lake, Bavaria; Schloss Neuschwanstein; Harburg, Germany; Bamberg, Altes Rathaus, Bavaria; Wearing traditional costume on market day; Vibrant and stunning colors of Guatemalan textile weaving; The natural beauty and dramatic colors of Lake Atitlan; Facade detail on the church of La Merced; 'Cithera Player,' Etruscan, Tomb of the Leopards, Tarquinia; 'Flute Player,' Etruscan, Tomb of the Leopards, Tarquinia; 'Cupids as Parfumers,' Pompeii, Casa del Vettii; 'Eros Punished by Venus,' Pompeii, National Museum, Naples; Le Chateau D'If and a sailboat, Marseilles, France; Le 'Vieux Port' and its fish market, Marseilles, France; Sorrento, Campania, Italy; View of Isola Bella from Stresa, Lake Maggiore, Italy; Calcio, Florence, Italy; Piazza Navona, Rome, Italy; 'Pelican,' Caesarea, church outside the walls, Israel; 'Beribboned Doce,' Tiberias, Israel; Door, National Cathedra, Plaza de Armas, Lima; Balcony of Palaci Torre Tagles, Lima; Gold leaf adorns many of Lima's Catholic churches; Selva, rain forest; Orange and green plant; Peruvian jungle; Stelae, Mayan ruins, Copan, Honduras; Mayan ruins, Tikal, Guatemala; Amphitheater, Caerleon Roman Fortress, England; Lanyon Quoit, Cornwall, England; Castle Campbell, Scotland; Paper dragon for Dragon Dance; Cockatoos at Jurong Bird Park, Singapore; Chinese shops, Singapore, Boat quay, Singapore, Chinese Bridge, Singapore; Orangutan; Hindu deities, Sti Mariamman Temple-Singapore; Singapore's national flower - the orchid; 'Second Chinese Horse,' Lascaux, Dordogne, France; Grazing Reindeer, Font de Gaume; River Dordogne with cafe, France; Beynac, Dordogne, France; Five Horses and a Cow, Lascaux, Dordogne, France; Dinosaur Provincial Park, Badlands, Alberta; Desert badlands, Alberta, Canada; Aberystwyth Castle, Dyed, Wales, U.K, Elk by the road side, Jasper Park, Alberta; Athabasca Falls; Maya ruins at Tulum, Mexico; Waterfront, Akumal, Mexico; Xcaret, Mexican Caribbean; Asakusa, Kannon Temple; L'Arc de Triomphe, Paris, Castle Fuengirla, Malaga Province, Spain; Triumph Arch, Barcelona, Spain; Papal Mass in Vatican Italy; Casa Loma; York Minster, England; HMS Victory, Portsmouth, England; St. Michael's Chapel and tor, Glastonbury, England; Mine truck for ore, Mordelham Quay, Devon, UK; series of windmills, Kinderdijk; Keukenhof Gardens, Holland; Efteling Amusement Park, Holland, the great Buddha at Todaiji temple, Nara; Reflection, temple of the Golden Pavilion, Kyoto, Kofukuji Pagoda, Nara; Toei Uzumasa Movieland, Tokyo; Atomic Bomb Dome, Hiroshima; Cranes of peace and longevity, Hiroshima; Wishing well at Ryoanji temple, Kyoto; footbridge in Autumn, Arashiyama; Temple pond, Nara prefecture, Kiyomizu temple, Kyoto; Himeji; Burrard Inlet, Vancouver;s Totem Pole, Stanley Park, British Columbia; Butchart Gardens, Victoria; Capillano Suspension Bridge; Niagara Falls, Ontario; Shakespeare Festival, Stratford, Ontario; Stratford Bridge over the Thames River, Ontario; Cilgerran Castle, Cardigan, South Wales; Cardiff Castle; St. David's Cathedral; Lake Vyrnwy, East of Dolgellau; Lake Bala; Remains of Castel-y-Bere; Angelsey, Beaumaris Castle; Tower of London, England; Boboli Gardens, Florence, Italy; Statue of Juan Rodiquez Cabrillo, Point Loma; Campanile, Mission San Diego de Alcala; Dolphin feeding, Sea World; Coronado Ferry, San Diego Bay; Hotel del Coronado, Coronado Island; The Cove at La Jolla Bay; Old Ferry Landing, Coronado Island; Botanical Building, Balboa; Quail Botanical Gardens, Encinitas; Koala, San Diego Zoo; Promendade, Marina Park; Sailing, San Diego Bay; Tiger, San Diego Wild Animal Park; Museum of Man, Balboa Park; Desert flowers, Anza Borrego State Park; Olvera Street Mexican Village, Amtrak Union Station; Watercourt entrance CA Plaza, Olvera Street donkey mascot; Little Tokyo Plaza; LA Public Library; Security Pacific Plaza; Point Reyes National Seashore- Palomarin; Mist trail along the Merced River; Badger Pass; Mariposa Grove of sequoia trees; Grizzly Giant in Mariposa Grove; Sea otter; part of wall mural in Marine Museum, Vancouver; Pt. Reyes National Seashore - Sculpted Beach, fountain of Latrona Fountain, Versailles; Great Cathedral at Chartres; Cathedral at Chartres, the North Rose Window, Chartres; Palais Versailles, Diana drawing room, Sandstone hoodoo formation, Alberta; Watertown town site, Waterton Lakes, Alberta; Mule deer, Waterton Lakes, Alberta; Bow Lake, Banff, Alberta, Peyto Lake, Banff, Alberta; Chateau de Chaumont, Loire Valley, France; Chateaux of the Loire, Villandry Castle, France; Chateau Amboise; Chateau Azay-le-Rideau; Anglesey, Beaumaris Castle, North Wales; Old Jerusalem, Israel; The Damascus Gate, Old Jerusalem; Restormel Castle, Cornwall, England; Bodiam Castle near Robertsbridge, East Sussex; Windsor Castle, England; Candelbros, Paracas; the Roman Arena, Arles; old Chateau Vaison-la-Romaine; Colzean Castle, Ayshire, Scotland; Inverary Castle, Argyll; Glencoe; Cathedral and City Wall, Canterbury, Kent; Fordwich, near Canterbury, Kent, Bronze sculpture, Poseidon, Greece; Agora, Corinth, Greece, "Valley of Rocks near Lynton, Exmoor; dramatic fish eye shot of Houndtor, Dartmoor, Malahide Castle, Ireland, "Daruna" Jindaiji Temple Tokyo. | |||
| From iStockphoto.com – Fish in Tokyo; Tokyo Tower; Tokyo Bay, temple gate Tokyo; Kiyomizu Kannondo temple; Pompidou Centre, Les Calanques; Peaceful place Bois de Boulogne; bridge over the Dordogne, Palawan Beach Sentosa Island; Sentosa Bridge, Buddha (Hong Kong); Acrocorinth peak in spring; Sea walls of Acre; Haifa's Bay; Dome of the Rock; Cable car at Ros Hanikra; Silhouette of palm tree, Ein Gedi; Architecture II, model of Jersusalem; Red rocks, Timna Park; Sea of Galilee; Falafel in pita bread; Old fortress in Malaga; Alcazar Palace Sevilla; Anadluzia; Muralla de Avila Espana; Alhambra 03; Alhambra 22; Gaudi detail; Durham Cathedral; Cinque Terre, Autumn at the Falls of Dochart (Perthshire); Family of guanaco in Patagonia; A boat in the south of Chile; Two penguins returning to the beach (Patagonia); London's Tower Bridge from the south bank of the Thames; St. Paul's Cathedral, London; Shakespeare's Globe Theater; Pompeii and Vesuvius; 10,000 Buddhas monastery and temple in Hong Kong; elephant Toronto Zoo; Colca Canyon, Peru; Mountain stream, Isle of Skye; Loch Morlich, Stirling Castle; Merlion, Singapore; Orangutan, Singapore Zoo; Tower with oaks, Lucca; Dutch windmill 3; Arcade Jerusalem; Castle in Ghent; Manneken Pis 1; Swans and medieval buildings (Belgium); the US capitol; National Cathedral, Washington DC; Capitol Building in Washington DC; Jefferson Memorial in spring with cherry blossoms; Smithsonian Castle from the garden; Spirit of St. Louis at the Smithsonian; White House in spring; Washington Monument; Excursion barge in the C& O Canal; Mount Vernon, Virginia; Ferry boats crossing harbour in Hong Kong; Paper decorations outside Tin Hau temple; Television tower in Shanghai; Baby pandas Beijing Zoo in China, Forbidden City in Beijing; Beijing China opera; Roof ornaments Forbidden City, Beijing; Summer Palace in Beijing; Chinese girl contemplating the pond of a garden Summer Palace Beijing; Beautiful temple in Xi'an; Terra cotta warriors in Xi'an, China; Dragon in garden (Shanghai): Television tower in Shanghai; Xian warrior; Forbidden City wall, Beijing; A view inside Forbidden City China; Tiananmen Gate, Beijing; Female lion, Forbidden City, Pei Hai (Bei Hai) Park and Gardens; Temple of Heaven, Beijing; Watchtower Great Wall China; Battlement of Alhambra, Granada; Cambridge - dreaming spires; Blue fishing boat Aldeburgh, Suffolk; Carmel, California; Cruise ship, Vancouver; Golden Gate Bridge and SF Skyline; Toronto in summer; Toronto skyline; Church on central square, Lima Peru; Wooden canoes Amazon; Blue and gold macaw; Sea lions Fisherman's Wharf San Francisco; Golden Gate Bridge in mist; River Ouse; York Castle; Torre de Oro; view of San Diego from Coronado Island; Fiesole (stone and concrete art); Ponte Vecchio (the most beautiful bridge in the world); Duomo, Florence; cupid in Boboli Gardens; Onion domes of St. Mark's Basilica; Burano colored houses; Bridge of Sighs, Venice Italia; Rialto Bridge; San Giorgio Maggiore; Winter church and trees, Austria; Westminster Abbey, London England; Tower on Ile de la Cite Paris; Paris Seine cruise; boy and boogie board; kids at the beach; Roman arena Arles; Sand harbor, Lake Tahoe, Nevada; Lake Tahoe, viewed from Heavenly Valley ski resort; little boy skiing downhill; waterfall, Lake Tahoe; "sliding" at Lake Tahoe; Emerald Bay at Lake Tahoe; deserted beach, Lake Tahoe; Ile Sainte Marguerite, Cannes; Train line in north of Scotland; view of Mt Eiger and the train station; Florence Campanile and Duomo; Baptistery Door, Florence, Italy; Patagonia sea lion; Perito Moreno Glacier in Los Glaciares National Park; Southern Atacama Desert;Magic Nahuel Huapi Lake in Patagonia; Gaucho country; Argentina railway "trochita": Cuban Girl at Varadero Beach; Vinales Valley, Cuba; Girls walking on the pier; Sea lions in the sun in Monterey Harbor; Christmas fair in Augsburg, Germany; Statue in front of the Romer, Frankfurt's famous landmark; Barge on the Main Riber in Frankfurt Germany; Lions before the Welfenscholoss in Hannover Germany; Town hall and Masch Pond in Hannover; St. Kastor basilica in Koblenz; mixed forest in Saarland Germany; typical street scene in Rothenburg, Germany; buildings in Nuernberg Germany; women's church in Nuremberg Franconia; castle in Wuerzburg, Germany; Fueseen "High Castle;" Nymphenburg park in Munich, Germany; Milan - a tower of Castello Sforzesco; Castillo San Felipe Rio Dulce Guatemala; Olympia in Greece; Red fort in Old Delhi; Chichen Itza pyramid in Mexico; Flamingos in the Yucatan; Daibutsu in Kamakura; Dogashima Islands, Izu, Japan; fisherman carrying reed boat, Peru; Dartmoor ponies; Trosky castle; Dorset Hive Beach Jurassic Coast; Brooklyn Bridge; Young boy looking over New York; Statue of Liberty; Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center; Buildings as seen from Central Park; Weather station (Belvedere Castle) in Central Park, Manhattan; Clock at Grand Central; Skyscrapers tower over New York City; American Falls, Niagara New York; Boat tour American side Niagara Falls; Twin sisters at Niagara Falls; Niagara Falls and Maid of the Mist Canadian side; Niagara Horsehoe Falls; Antique baseball and glove; Path long the Erie Canal, Rochester New York; Niagara Falls in summertime, Canadian side; Rouen, Place du Marche; Ferris wheel Chicago; Buckingham fountain and downtown Chicago skyline; Chicago Museum of Science and Industry; T rex skeleton Field Museum; Take a river boat through Chicago; Wrigley building in Chicago; Rustic building near banks of Mississippi River; Amusement park rides at Chicago's Navy Pier; Hugging a snowman; group of elephants, Etosha Park, Namibia; Young seal Skeleton Coast Namibia, Namib Naukluft National Park; Dune 45 in Namib Desert; Two lioness and lion cubs Masai Mara, Kenya; Colorful wares cloth merchant Mombasa Kenya; Flamingos on Lake Kakuru; Hippopotanmus in Lake Naivasha; baby in airport luggage trolley in front of check-in sign; child playing with toy plane before departing on holiday; a little boy enjoying the surf; California beach scene; Mission Santa Barbara; Chinese dragon on Ramblas Street, Barcelona Spain; Two young girls looking at Barcelona from the Parc Guell; Bridge over the Tagus River, Toledo; Shield and armour, Toledo; View from hillside near Balmaha, Loch Lomond; Glasgow University Bell Tower; Tall Ship Glenlee; Yulong River; Li River Mystery; Gateway of India; Plaza Mayor and Philip III; city wall at Avila Spain; Stained glass Segovia Spain; Girl collecting seashellls on the beach - Vancouver; Chinese lions in Vancouver; White whale Vancouver aquarium; Gastown Vancouver; Sunset on El Capital; River play (Merced River). | |||
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