Whats your favourite place to go with kids in Europe? Country, city, region, town etc...tell me all about it please...

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Am trying again after my last failed thread

We are planning a 6 month trip caravaning next year...where should we go?

Kids will be 2 and 4

My family is at the mercy of mumsnet...

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Sweden. Beautiful, clean and so child-friendly. Best if you can break the journey up a bit though.

thanks tooticky.We were hoping to gt to stockholm, but probably no further up.

Do you mean break up the 6 months? Or the time in sweden? We are planning a week or 2 in Tuscany in the middle (in a hotel) for a break from the campervan, and we will stop in each place for at least a few nights or up to a firtnight if we like it, so we plan to take it slowly and enjoy

Austria

Italy...pizza, pasta, ice-cream, people adore children, fab scenery.

Salzburg in Austria is amazing.

There is a fountain garden there. A hill in hte middle of the city wiht a fort and Mozarts birth bplace museum. Wre went when 4 kids were 3,5,7,8 and they al really loved it.

Llubjana has Lipica horses the and some great caves.

Dubovnik old town is incredible - you can walk around it on the wall.

thank you all, any more?

Italian lakes - we stayed at Lake Maggiore. Czech spa towns are said to be fab. Also some lovely scenery/walks round Lake Lucerne in Switzerland. Had great fun camping in Andorra. Denmark on the way to Sweden - somewhere near Copenhagen or Legoland. Lots of water and outdoor lifestyle. Would avoid Vienna - it's the least child friendly place I've ever been and the only place to have me in tears.

oh dear swedishmum

I loved vienna when I went pre DCs - was it a one off bad experience you had, or is the whole city not child friendly? Thanks for the other tips

OMG, you are going for 6 months? You lucky things. I missed that bit! I meant literally break up the journey from here to Sweden. We have done it twice as a v. intensive journey which was a little wearing, and Germany is interminable. (No offence to Germany, just that if you're not stopping and all you see is autobahn and services it is tedious).

well, it will be 6 months or until our money runs out! we will be leaving the uk and returning home to Aust, so would like to see Europe before we go.

Any more ideas?

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Austrian Tyrol was quite good for kids - plenty of restaurants/hotels with playgrounds. Innsbruck also - there is a lovely big park and playground right next to the Hofburg, the old Palace.

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Rather the opposite view to Swedishmum here, I love Vienna but then I do live here with ds(4.5). If you are camping there is a good campsite at Hutteldorf on the outskirts (but it is beside a farily busy road), try to goole Camping Wien West.

Actually I would recomend trying the site in Klosterneuburg. Klosternueburg is a few minutes NW of Vienna by very frequent commuter train. The site is beside the Danube and next to a great leisure centre called Happyland )indoor & outdoor pools, also has website) where I take ds to swimming lessons. You can walk to the train station and be in Vienna in a very few minute, best of both worlds with little ones IYSWIM.

The Austrian tourist board site is www.tiscover.at.

Astrophe, I have finally posted my update for you on the living overseas section!