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Mondays are for dreaming: Spring break in Provence

February 21, 2011 13 reader comments

Some Mondays call for extravagant dreams, dreams that may never be realized but are important because they sustain us and carry us forward to new adventures and possibilities. I'm having a dream like that today, a dream of spring break in Provence, …

Mondays are for dreaming: A visit to Bristol, England

February 15, 2011 2 reader comments

If you are like I was, Bristol, England may not be on your family travel list. But the largest city in southwestern England should be – not only are there loads of things to do with kids, great restaurants, and the fun vibe that comes from being a …

Mondays are for dreaming: The Oxford University Museum of Natural History

February 7, 2011 13 reader comments

It's a fact not often discussed by travel writers that the act of visiting a new place can be profoundly disappointing. Indeed, a key element of any trip is expectation – before we go somewhere we imagine what it will be like, some of us with more …

Mondays are for dreaming: The FunZone at Smuggs

January 30, 2011 6 reader comments

We had two and a half days off school last week due to snow and although the boys spent a fair bit of time in the yard playing, they eventually got tired of tearing around shrieking and pelting each other with snowballs and ended up tearing around …

Enjoying an ice cream at Atlantis Resort Bahamas

Mondays are for dreaming: A return to Atlantis

January 24, 2011 7 reader comments

Generally speaking I don't long for warm weather when it's winter. I like winter in fact, love cold-weather landscapes, snow, icicles, and especially skiing. But today I'm thinking about where Teddy and I were one year ago today, on a trip that …