Postcards from the Mothership » Away we go

It’s been a weird summer, hasn’t it? Thanks to COVID, we didn’t do half as many little day trips and family adventures as we usually do, though I am grateful that my pre-teen and ...

http://danigirl.ca/blog/2020/09/04/ottawa-family-fun-day-trip-to-brockville/

Longtime readers of the blog know that we’ve been obsessed with sea glass for many, many years. I was first introduced to the idea when we visited Bar Harbor, way back when we were a famil...

http://danigirl.ca/blog/2019/08/12/the-one-with-the-radioactive-sea-glass/

Planning an itinerary for London that equally engages two teens, a tween, and two kids-at-heart meant tempering some of the more traditional sightseeing options (“seriously Mom, another church?...

http://danigirl.ca/blog/2018/08/15/five-fun-things-for-teens-and-tweens-in-london/

If there was a leitmotif for our trip to London, it was Harry Potter. I have spent the last year reading the books to Lucas for the first time (after having read them to the older boys several ye...

http://danigirl.ca/blog/2018/08/09/finding-harry-potter-in-london/

I would not have expected that navigating through London’s (in)famous Underground would be as significant a touchstone in our travel memories as were our trips to the Harry Potter studio, the R...

http://danigirl.ca/blog/2018/08/05/navigating-londons-underground-with-kids/

We’re freshly home from our epic two-week adventure in London and Paris, and I have SO MANY stories to tell you that I don’t even know where to begin. So, let’s start — at the beginning! ...

http://danigirl.ca/blog/2018/08/04/in-which-she-tries-to-tell-you-all-the-travel-stories-at-once-and-doesnt-know-where-to-start/

Help me, sophisticated travels of the blogosphere! With two months left in the year-long adventure of planning our trip to London and Paris this summer, we’ve arrived at the time for some tough...

http://danigirl.ca/blog/2018/05/15/euro2018-the-carry-on-vs-checked-luggage-question/

We’re deep into the planning of our once-in-a-lifetime trip to London and Paris next summer. We’ve got accomodations, flights and EuroStar tickets booked, and now we’re start...

http://danigirl.ca/blog/2018/04/07/euro2018-walking-up-the-eiffel-tower/

As I mentioned in an earlier post, we’ve decided to take the boys on the adventure of a lifetime next summer: a week in London, England and a week in Paris. I’m not the world’s most sophist...

http://danigirl.ca/blog/2017/12/18/euro2018-booking-accommodations-in-paris/

Every now and then in my life, a luck bomb explodes. Circumstances happen to come crashing together in a way that makes amazing opportunities drop into my lap. One of those resulted in my amazing...

http://danigirl.ca/blog/2017/11/15/euro2018-planning-for-the-adventure-of-a-lifetime/

If you’re a long-time blog reader, you know that as a family, we have been stalking Chef Michael Smith for about four years now. We’ve long been fans of “the world’s tallest freestanding ...

http://danigirl.ca/blog/2017/07/30/in-which-the-family-finally-meets-chef-michael-smith-at-the-village-feast/

Lighthouses are an iconic part of the PEI experience. In 2016, we even drove from one tip of the island to the other to earn our “tip to tip” lighthouse certificate! This trip, we visited no ...

http://danigirl.ca/blog/2017/07/27/photos-of-the-day-the-beautiful-lighthouses-of-pei/

We’ve just returned from our annual vacation in Prince Edward Island, and I have a *cough* few photos to share. This might be my new favourite photo of the boys, taken in Souris. I might have t...

http://danigirl.ca/blog/2017/07/26/photo-of-the-day-the-boys-in-souris/

Back in 2014 when we visited PEI for the first time, one of our favourite stops was Chef Michael Smith’s Flavour Shack on Souris Beach. We met a passel of lovely women who all seemed to work fo...

http://danigirl.ca/blog/2016/07/25/photo-of-the-day-our-annual-flavour-shack-family-portrait/

Only time for a quick photo today. This is from Basin Head – of course. “Joy is to fun what the deep sea is to a puddle. It’s a feeling inside that can hardly be contained.” ...

http://danigirl.ca/blog/2016/07/24/photo-of-the-day-joy-is-to-fun-what-the-deep-sea-is-to-a-puddle-its-a-feeling-inside-that-can-hardly-be-contained-terry-pratchett/

Basin Head beach was our first favourite place on Prince Edward Island. Clearly, lots of other people agree with us: Basin Head was recently named by Chatelaine as one of Canada’s Best Beaches....

http://danigirl.ca/blog/2016/07/20/rediscovering-basin-head/

Did you know that if you visit both the East Point lighthouse and the North Cape lighthouse on Prince Edward Island, you earn a “tip to tip” certificate? I wasn’t entirely sure that a certi...

http://danigirl.ca/blog/2016/07/19/tip-to-tip-to-the-other-side-of-pei-and-back/

I have a spreadsheet of things we can do while we’re on PEI, with events and ideas and links that I’ve collected over a couple of years of relentless PEI research. It’s a little bit hard to...

http://danigirl.ca/blog/2016/07/17/a-perfectly-unambitious-day-in-pei/

We’ve returned for our third annual trip to Prince Edward Island. This year, we’ve chosen a cottage with direct beach access and water views from almost every room in the cottage – quite an...

http://danigirl.ca/blog/2016/07/15/photos-of-the-day-back-to-the-beach-in-prince-edward-island/

Yay! It’s time to start thinking about our next summer vacation on Prince Edward Island! This will be our third trip to PEI. In 2014, we spent a week near Murray Harbour, and in 2015 we spent a...

http://danigirl.ca/blog/2016/01/10/planning-for-pei-2016-why-we-love-the-points-east-coastal-drive-region/