Family Dispatches
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Dispatch from Lofoten Island, Norway
Looking to give their family a true adventure rather than a holiday, Adam Sebba and his wife took their two children to stay in a decommissioned lighthouse on the edge of the Norwegian Arctic.
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High Desert Road Trip: Portland to Bend, Oregon
Looking to revisit a place that shaped an earlier chapter of his life, Michael Neault heads to Oregon’s high desert with his wife and two boys, 7 and 10.
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Dispatch from Rome & The Roman Coast
Photographer Stephen Ringer and his wife return to some of their most beloved, romantic places in Italy… with a two-year-old in tow. First stop: Rome, then on to La Posta Vecchia on the coast, ending at Corte della Maestà in the countryside.
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Frequent Criers: Q&A with Ali Alquiza Klidonas
From annual 10-hour flights to Greece with twins to dinners in Madrid that stretch well past bedtime, Ali Alquiza Klidonas brings her hard-won expertise to our family travel column.
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Just Back From…Bequia
Looking for an adventure over New Year’s, Hannah Bronfman and her family headed to the low-key island of Bequia. The kind of place where kids can run around on the beach while parents supervise from a distance during long, toes-in-the-sand lunches, and happy hour means rum and Cokes set to a soundtrack of soca music.
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Family Road Trip: LA to Mendocino County
Restaurateur Brooks Reitz set off with his wife and young son on a road trip that stretched from the palm trees of LA to the apple orchards of Philo, winding through Ojai, Carmel, Inverness, and beyond.
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Just Back From… Normandy
The twin towns of Deauville and Trouville-sur-Mer on the Normandy coast have long lured Parisians for their buzzy restaurants, Neo-Norman architecture, and sandy beaches sprinkled with candy-colored umbrellas. Maddy Odom made the easy trip from Paris for a few laid-back days of shell-scavenging and sandcastle-building, waterfront meals of fresh oysters, (plus a detour to Giverny!)…
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Venice and Vicenza with Kids
For his daughter’s school break, Martins Pilens decided to revisit one of his favorite places through their eyes. With thrilling water taxi rides, nightcaps of gelato (for the kids) and Americanos (for the parents), and a picnic in the garden of a Palladian villa, the trip was equally fun for all.
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Patagonia Road Trip
Nanda and Max Haensel set off on a 2,500-mile loop through Southern Chile and Argentina with toddlers in tow—no screens, just crayons, picture books and the open road. Along the iconic Ruta 7, they discovered that the planet’s wildest frontiers can stir a sense of adventure and discovery, even in the smallest travelers.