You might think that Beijing is not an ideal choice for a three-day weekend with an eight-year old in the middle of July. I was dreading the pollution and had avoided Beijing for a few years because of the smog but when the opportunity came to go again, we dusted our old guidebooks and took off. At first glance, there seems to be very little online about things to do with kids in Beijing that do […]
Photo Credit: Boddi Chrin It’s July, you’re in Paris with your kids and it’s unbearably hot. I’ve been there, I grew up there, so I know … Paris is not always equipped to handle such crazy temperatures. After you’ve exhausted all the big museums and reached your limits with hoping from shop to ice cream parlour, you may want to try other “cool” places to take your little ones that generally don’t make it to the top 5 places to […]
Leap & Hop Paris is coming out this week in Hong Kong and around the world but since I’m in Paris, I wanted to have the opinion of a couple of French kids. Can Pierre-Oscar, a local 10-year old, and his brother, Felix, 7, enjoy a quiz walk around the artsy neighbourhood of Montmartre written for children coming from other countries to visit their hometown? Well, the answer was a resounding “oui”! We met in front of the […]
Originally posted on <a href="https://lespascalettesuk.wordpress.com/2015/01/02/a-new-way-of-traveling-for-kids">les pascalettes uk</a>: <br />Happy New Year 2015 to all! If you are already planning family travels for the year ahead, i can only strongly recommend these amazing books, made especially for kids to enjoy, have and discover different countries! All written by a mum herself (Isabelle Demenge) who couldn’t find a better way to entertain her kids while traveling to these amazing places, few ideas include: taking a selfie in front of the…
Never have we been so surrounded by other families traveling in Southeast Asia. This came as a big surprise. Taking our kids to Myanmar seemed a bit adventurous. We thought we were ahead of the curve, well, we weren’t, not at all. We saw tons of French kids running around but we also heard plenty of English, Italian, Dutch and German speakers. As we went through the Leap & Hop draft book of Myanmar with the “guinea […]
It’s time to pack and go with the family on our winter break adventure. The Christmas break of 2010 is when the whole thing started: I had to write a book for the kids for our trip to Cambodia. With my sister’s family, we had 5 kids aged 8 and under and we (the adult minority) were determined to spend quality time in the temples, not around the pool. The books were designed to give […]
The date is set, Leap & Hop Bali is hitting the bookstore on December 19! Just in time for the winter break. Today we want to debunk a few myths about Bali. Somehow, most people think of Bali as the place to go for great water sports and fun night life. If you’re going with the family, you may be thinking of resorts, water park and monkey forest. Well, there are other things to do in […]
Because it’s hard to picture how much fun it is to explore a place with Leap & Hop, we made a 2-minute movie. Tell us what you think!
Yes, I am going to Paris in 4 days! I can’t wait to be back home but this time it won’t be (only) about diner with friends, catching the latest French movies or exhibitions. No, next week I will be a tourist in my hometown and I can’t wait. The draft book is nearly done, it’s just so hard for me to limit it to 100 pages (and maybe I won’t, let’s see). The decision about what […]
The process is more of less the same for each book: I need guinea pigs. The first ones are always my children. It’s only fair, I started writing the Leap & Hop series for them. For Bali, the family experience took place last June. Kids were happy temple-hoping for a week with a snorkelling trip as a break. Check out their collection of ticket stubs. They also found a few typos and things that didn’t work and made some […]
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