The fall is a particularly busy season for our family with 6 birthdays, holidays, sports and my busiest time of the year for work. So, 4 months later, I am finally getting to posting about our final leg of our European adventure! If you missed the other posts, you can read about Barcelona here, Nice, Monaco, & Miilan here, and Zurich, Munich, & Amsterdam here.

The final legs of our trip included a quick one night stop in Brussels and then a week in Paris.

Zurich was without a doubt everyone’s favorite part of our European adventure. We only spent three days here, but it was amazing. We stayed in a quaint, walkable area with easy access to the cable cars to get around town. Zurich is a big city that really doesn’t feel like a big city. It’s very easy to navigate, and the people are very friendly.

As you may know, our family of 7 spent the month of August traveling across Europe. It was jam packed full of fun, adventure, and memories to last a lifetime! If you missed our first stop, you can read about our time in Barcelona here. After spending nearly a week in Barcelona, we started hopping around from city to city. Over the next 6 days we visited Nice, Monaco, and Milan.

This summer our family of 7 (5 kids 10 & under) traveled around Europe. We visited 8 countries in a month, and it was an incredible experience! The first stop of our trip was Barcelona, which just so happens to be my favorite stop of the whole trip! We are city people and feel at home when we are in big cities, but we also really love the beach. Barcelona was the perfect balance of city life and beach!

Our family of 7 is gearing up for a month long vacation exploring parts of Europe. Now that all of the planning is done, I am shifting gears to think about packing. By nature, we are quite minimalistic, but even more so when it comes to packing for our trips. When you have a large family, I think it is particularily important to minimize that amount of stuff you’re carrying with you. It is hard enough to keep track of everyone and also fit everything into cars, cabs, etc. Reducing the amount of luggage will alleviate some of the stress on travel days.