All posts tagged: kids

Hot Chocolate-Crawl in Paris

Family / Food / Hot Chocolate / leap & hop / paris / Travel

It’s cold, it’s raining, it’s Paris in February, no surprise there.  Don’t get me wrong, it’s still the most beautiful city in world.  Traveling with my 11-year old son in my hometown, I realised that if I was going to jump from the Louvre to the Eiffel Tower I needed to get some warming fuel on the way. To fight the cold and the intermittent rain, we spiced things up with pit-stops in search of that scrumptious hot chocolate.   Our […]

A perfect weekend in Beijing with an 8-year old

Beijing / China / Kids / leap & hop / Travel

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 […]

Paris – Cool Places for Kids in the Hot Summer

Family / Kids / leap & hop / paris / Travel

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 […]