Is the Netherlands the Most Kid-Friendly Country in Europe?
Every year or so, a headline does the rounds: Dutch kids are officially the happiest in…
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Every year or so, a headline does the rounds: Dutch kids are officially the happiest in…
Every parent who’s lived here more than a year eventually gets asked the same question a…
Utrecht is a half-hour train ride from Amsterdam Centraal and it’s an easy win with kids…
Every visiting grandparent, every “what should we do today” morning, every rainy Tuesday…
ARTIS is the zoo every Amsterdam parent ends up at eventually, usually more than once. I…
NEMO with kids is one of those Amsterdam days that actually lives up to the hype, most o…
€50 on bed linen wasn’t exactly how I imagined starting our Center Parcs holiday. We’ve…
If your kid’s favourite part of any outing is getting close enough to a goat to smell it…
Amsterdam is an expensive city to visit, but it’s a surprisingly cheap one to actually l…
Pumpkin fields get all the attention once October hits, but apple picking in the Netherl…
Halloween isn’t really a Dutch tradition, but it’s not nothing either. Costumes show up…
The autumn school break 2026 splits the country into two waves this year. Noord-Nederlan…
Short, honest, practical — written by parents who live here.
October brings the autumn break, pumpkins and Halloween, plus plenty of indoor culture for rainy days. Cinekid turns…
September is packed with brilliant family days across the Netherlands. Climb aboard ships during Rotterdam’s Wereldhavendagen, see enormous…
The parents' checklist for Dutch holiday camps: the school-break calendar, day camp versus sleepover by age, twelve things…
Forty family days out across the Netherlands: Amsterdam and surroundings, Utrecht and Flevoland, the North Holland coast, and…
