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Monday's quick start: Zig Zag City Guide Rome

"Meet Zig and Zag, two characters that will guide your child through Rome. Your young travelers won’t miss a beat with thirty interactive city cards filled with facts and activities. They’ll learn words and phrases in Italian, reflect on what they experience, draw what they see, and take a quiz about Rome to keep them on their toes"

Alane send me an email about her Zig Zag Rome guide and I LOve it and she told me this summer a Zig Zag San Francisco guide will be launched and Paris and NYC are next on their list.

We are Going on Vacation with Mariella from hollywoodroadblog

We are Going on Vacation with Mariella  from Hollywood road blog

and we are we going to...
Italy, like every summer. I am  Italian , but I live in China and the summer is an opportunity to explore my country and share it with my husband who is Israeli and my kids.

Who are you bringing along?
My love and my two kids, two and a half years  and 5 months old
 


Where do you stay? 
We start from my parents' home, a little town down in the south, and then we will travel to other places although this year's itinerary still has to be defined

How do you get there?

We get there by plane and then we take road trips with a rented car. .........MORE

     

We are Going on Vacation with Isabelle Mcallister from Dos family

We are Going on Vacation with Isabelle Mcallister from DOS Family

and we are we going to...
A road trip in California. To live the large american way. Starting in LA going to Grand Canyon, Vegas, San Francisco and back to La trough Highway 1 along the coast.

Who are you bringing along?
The family. These images are from when we where just 3 of us before my son was born. Me, Erik and Della.

Where do you stay?
We booked online via hotels.com. Just a couple of days before we got to a new city so we could stay a different places as long as we wanted. We stayed at very affordable hotel Nikko in San Fransisco where they have rooms with two walls just made of glass - like sleeping on top of the city! And when passing Highway 1 don't miss the crazy and eclectic Madonna Inn, in San Luis Obispo  in Vegas you get great big rooms very cheap.

   

We are going on vacation with Joscha from MUS werk

We are going on vacation with Joscha from MUS werk

and we are we going to...

Italy

Who are you bringing along?
Our 4 kids. Floyd (2004) lola elvis (2006), roemer (2004), pippa rose (2011) and my husband. 

Where do you stay?
We're stayin in a holiday house located near Vinci, the birth place of leonardo da vinci, in tuscany between florence and pisa. we were there once before some years ago. It's quiet, surrounded by greensilver olive trees and old houses with cypress trees. kids have lots of  space to play around and the house has a beautiful view over the valley.

We are looking forward for some good italian food, nice temperature and sightseeing.
As within 50 to 100 km many interesting places such as Florence - Siena - Volterra - San Gimignano - Pistoia - Lucca - Prato and the sea.

        

We are going on vacation with Amanda de Beaufort from Coos And Ahhs

We are Going on Vacation with Amanda de Beaufort from Coos And Ahhs

and we are we going to...
 
Typically our big summer vacation is to Colombia, where my husband is from, but since we have a baby girl due at the end of May we are staying close this year, just up to my parent’s lake house in New Hampshire.
 
Who are you bringing along?
The whole clan!
 

Where do you stay?
When we got to Colombia we split our time between my mother-in-law’s house in the outskirts of Bogotá and my brother in-law’s house in La Candelaria, the historic district in downtown Bogotá. Both are so different but extremely beautiful.

  

We are Going on Vacation with Helen Bird from Curly Birds

We are Going on Vacation with Helen Bird from Curly Birds

and we are we going to... California
 
Who are you bringing along?
My husband, Eric, and our identical twin girls: Nola and Kira (5)

Where do you stay?
With family for a week in LA and then in coastal hotels along the coast

How do you get there?
We flew from Tennessee to California and drove up the coast from LA to Cambria, through Big Sur and on to Monterey.

What do you bring?
Clothes for two seasons – it was 90 degrees in LA and 45 up in Monterey