![]() No, you need a big, dumb American version - and do not confuse that with an S.U.V., which has neither the legroom for five nor the trunk capacity for five suitcases. Not a stylish European minivan that could pass for a car if you squint. Unless your children have the magical combination of age, gender and disposition to sleep peacefully in the same bed (hats off), you need a room with four beds, or better yet, a room with one bed and another with three. Though the source material was clearly the same. Tolkien, Dungeons & Dragons and dystopian fiction. Now 9, 11 and 13, my children had graduated from wooden playthings, and left behind earlier days of reading Grimm, watching the Disney versions on repeat and memorizing the lyrics from “Into the Woods.” They’d moved on to Greek myths and J.R.R. Would the magic hold up and perhaps acquire extra fairy dust in the company of three medium-size children? Was the timing right, or were we too late? These things were best appreciated by a family, and I didn’t have one.įifteen years later, I do, and the plan was to replicate, as closely as possible, my original itinerary together, a family of five. ![]() The Deutsches Museum in Munich needed kids running around its trains the night watchman’s tour of the walled city of Rothenburg was intended to spook. The Black Forest with its wooded peaks, signature cake and half-timbered houses wasn’t quite Grimm enough without them. The toyshops of Heidelberg, their wares clearly cobbled together by wood sprites with tiny hammers, begged for a child’s awed gasps. There was only one thing missing: children.
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