It’s this time of the year again in Paris: time for the Harvest Festival in Montmartre. This edition will be the 82nd Harvest Festival and the theme is “Our Planet”. Starting in 1934, Parisians have celebrated every year the harvest from the small vineyard perched on top of Montmartre in the north of Paris. This is the only time of the year that the vineyard is open to the public. Reservations are necessary for the visit on October 9. […]
Kids are back at school, time to plan the next vacation! So what’s it going to be? If you’re a temple-hoping kind of parent, Cambodia should be in your top 5 all time destinations. It can be a little intimidating with kids as there are more than 70 temples in the Angkor complex and more is yet to come. You simply have to manage YOUR expectations. It is not going to be enjoyable if your children are […]
For some of us, the summer vacation is not quite over, there are a few days left. Kids are back and hopefully over the jet-lag. How can we make the most of these last moments if we are trying to hold on to this vacation feeling. Let’s pretend we’re just visiting Hong Kong. Here are a few ideas of things the tourist in us will enjoy with the children. 1. Treasure Hunt in Sheung Wan I-discoverasia and the Hong […]
Photo Credit: Boddi Chrin With a few more weeks left of summer break and for those lucky ones (still) in Paris, here is an activity that will delight little and big ones as they stroll through the mesmerizing garden of the Musée Rodin. As an artist, Auguste Rodin spent his life focused on movement. He used to say: “I always tried to convey internal feelings through the representation of muscles in motion”. In his study […]
One of the reasons I write the Leap & Hop series is the excuse I get to do research with my own children. In addition to the actual trip and testing of the drafts as a family, I need to find out what would peak a child’s interest. Sometimes, I’m totally off but there is no better feeling than getting it right. One of the subjects that I wanted to explore with my 8-year old while […]
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…
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