Travelling by train in Europe - with kids

Sometimes travel can be more about the journey than the destination, as Caroline Hennessy and her family discovered when they took a 13-hour overnight journey from San Sebastián to Lisbon to check out the Trenhotel experience

It was Richard Scarry’s fault. While our girls were still babes in arms, I picked up some old books by that well-known American author and illustrator. The anthropomorphic animals that populated his Busytown were a common touchstone both from my Irish childhood and my Kiwi partner’s upbringing; we wanted to share this joint childhood memory with our own children.