Elva Trower

To avoid dragging a crank toddler through the airport and on to a claustrophobic plane cabin, where everyone has to suffer their screams, you could consider taking a cruise around Spain or France, allowing you the opportunity to walk around. On board there is often age specific entertainment, allowing you to leave Noddy to see to it that your child is entertained. If the children are still happily singing along to Old McDonald a farm then Sardinia offers some great opportunities for them to engage with farm yard animals. La Collina is home to a restored country estate, where the sheep go baa and the pigs go oink, and so on. There is a great deal of great self catering accommodation around, and the spot is near to some wonderful little beaches. To harden Blu-Tack, you can put nail polish on it and let it dry. Not many are aware of the prominence of children's literature available in Menorca, in fact for a child with a passion for words and stories it is almost a perfect location. "Authors in Residence" is a wonderful little literature festival catering for children, that offers some big names from the world of children's stories giving readings of their work under a thick Mediterranean sun. You can get your toddler lunch ideas dairy free to eat a variety of foods by offering tasty nutritious food for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Brittany has some of the nicest little beaches in Europe perfect for paddling and picking up shells. And building castles with the crepe coloured sand. It's a beach made for gentle games of football and gentle recreation. There are many lovely vacation rental accommodation places around for relaxed evenings afterwards A vacation rental villa tends to be perfect for families with children under ten, the familiarity of the home setting, rather than the bewildering overcrowded hotel. For your own comfort you may find that as well you have your own space and are not stuck constantly in the same room as the child. Travelling with the children can be a tricky one. Certainly a rewarding experience as these grow to become formative memories. Yet it's not for the faint hearted, an often exhausting experience as you tussle to keep the little ones permanently entertained. Yet if done well, the children are tired by the evening, drifting to sleep allowing a few recovery hours before having to repeat the whole charade the next day. Here your children get to feel like frontiersmen and outlaws, traipsing through those Bulgarian ranges, as if John Wayne in some cowboy movie. This is the horse riding activities the region has to offer, but for outdoorsy children there much more available. There are hard mountainous trails to walk, testing their orienteering skills to the maximum. On top of this there is water activities on offer such as kayaking, along with hunting for lunch.