Editor’s Picks: The New Voyager Brooklyn Map

March 31, 2017

Recently Emma Swinscoe of The New Voyager released her latest illustrated children’s map of my adopted hometown Brooklyn! The map, ...

MANNA Travel Diary

Reims Travel Diary

June 17, 2016

We travel a lot in France and I take a zillion pictures. I always say that I will make an album but never get around to it, until now!! because making travel diaries on MANNA is my new thing. Even if the trips happened a year ago. Sounds a bit silly to post old ...

Kids , Travel Tips and Resources

The New Voyager: Maps for Children

May 5, 2016

I am a big fan of illustration and big on traveling with kids, so I was immediately interested in Emma Swinscoe’s illustrated maps for kids. I was introduced to her sweet maps ...

Travel Tips and Resources

An Overly Organized Travel Checklist

March 11, 2016

As you know our little family travels a lot. I swear by my tips for traveling with kids, but more importantly I cannot function without a checklist. If I try ...

Travel Tips and Resources

Tips for Traveling with Kids

March 10, 2016

Traveling with kids for most parents is as scary as a trek in the arctic tundra: complicated, long, and potentially dangerous. Kids need a lot of crap when they travel. ...

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Sancerre Travel Diary

March 3, 2016

This past Summer one of my dear old friends Jennie from university spent a month in Sancerre with her husband and two kids. They live in Washington DC and her husband took a sabbatical to study French at the Coeur de France. With a 2 and 4 year old, they set up camp in the center ...