I knew we had a long weekend coming up with a holiday where the kids had no school and I had the day off, and we wanted a weekend escape. While searching for places to visit, I had quite a few places in mind but considering it was mid-January and I wanted to visit some place warm, that sort of limited my options. After some discussion we settled on Austin, TX.
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When you talk to people that have the same passion as you do about traveling you get a lot of ideas and inspiration. I enjoy hearing stories about other people and their travels and especially all the details that we try to apply when my family and I travel. Our next trip idea started from a story telling conversation with my collegue who told me about her travel adventures to the Netherlands and Belgium with her kids. She spoke about the beautiful gardens and the abundance of museums and history for the kids to see in both countries. I was inspired. This trip would be just in time as my kids’ school spring break vaction was approaching. So that is where we decided to go.
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Deciding where to take our next family trip for the kids’ school Spring Break was a really easy decision after seeing beautiful pictures of Croatia.
Getting to Croatia was not as straightforward as it was for us to get to most other cities in Western Europe that we had visited, though it was not too challenging. There weren’t any direct flights available for us, so the most efficient and economical option was to first fly to Munich, Germany. From there we could have taken a quick and convenient flight to Zagreb, however we decided to take an overnight train since we hadn’t done that before and wanted to try something new.
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