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Yasmine Kas
I'm Yasmine, mum of two (5 and 9). We're a travelling family, but not the camper-van-on-a-cliff-at-sunset kind. We're the ones in a holiday park in November, when the pool is all ours. We prefer to stay weeks in one place, a holiday park or a campsite, head back to the Netherlands for a bit, then leave again. That's how we explore the quieter corners of Europe, by car and outside the school holidays. Long-haul doesn't fit our life right now, but you never know. This is where I write down what we really thought, even when it disappointed.
Articles by Yasmine Kas
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September 30, 2026
The Belgian Ardennes with kids: three areas, our days out and what they cost
The Belgian Ardennes with kids: which area suits your family? We stayed in the centre and the north and drove through the south. Per area what we did...
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September 19, 2026
Caves of Han with kids: price, parking and how long it takes
The Caves of Han with kids: what the PassHan costs, where to park, and why the wildlife park was our highlight.
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September 10, 2026
Port Grimaud with kids: shallow water, no cars and where to park
Port Grimaud with kids is mostly about the beach: very fine sand, water that stays shallow for a long way, and Saint-Tropez across the bay. Plus where...
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July 26, 2026
Irrland with kids: a day out just across the German border
Our third visit to Irrland in Kevelaer, this time on the busiest possible day: the Netherlands, Flanders and North Rhine-Westphalia were all on summer...
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June 30, 2026
Camping La Sirène with kids: six weeks, new pools and a huge terrace
Six weeks at Camping La Sirène in Argelès-sur-Mer, from early May to mid June. The water park was expanded and finally heated this year, the terrace a...
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April 19, 2026
Het Land van Bartje with kids: a week where we never left the park
A week in April at Landal Het Land van Bartje in Ees, with two families and children aged 1, 4, 5 and 8. What the house cost, what there is to do from...
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March 29, 2026
Valencia with kids in March: rain, Las Fallas from a distance and the Albufera
March in Valencia with kids: 1,800 kilometres of driving for sun and Las Fallas, and we got rain and mascletàs that sounded like bombs twenty kilometr...
Reflections
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March 9, 2026
We don’t dream in bucket lists
We talk a lot about seeing more. More countries, more highlights, more once-in-a-lifetime moments. But what if travel isn’t about collecting place...
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February 1, 2026
Center Parcs Les Trois Forêts in January with kids: lots of forest, one night of snow, expensive groceries
Center Parcs Les Trois Forêts in January with kids: a six-hour drive, one night of snow, and the laundrette three kilometres from our cottage. The Aqu...
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December 23, 2025
Disneyland Paris with kids: what worked for us (and what didn’t)
Planning Disneyland Paris with kids can feel overwhelming. After three winter days in the parks, this is what worked for our family, what we would sk...
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December 20, 2025
Three days at Disneyland Paris in December with kids
Three days at Disneyland Paris in December with kids: Newport Bay Club as our hotel, up to 30,000 steps a day and fake snow on Main Street. This is th...
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December 3, 2025
Landal Hochwald with kids: big indoor playground, small pool
Two weeks of November in a kids' bungalow at Landal Hochwald near Kell am See, with snow soon after we arrived. The indoor play hall is genuinely big...
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November 16, 2025
Landal Salztal Paradies with kids: two weeks in the Harz in November
Two weeks of November at Landal Salztal Paradies in Bad Sachsa, southern edge of the Harz, in a roomy cottage with underfloor heating and the forest n...
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September 30, 2025
Center Parcs Hochsauerland with kids: one big hill, rent the e-car
Center Parcs Hochsauerland with kids in September: ten nights in a six-person Premium cottage at around 138 euros a night, 3.5 hours from Utrecht. The...
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August 29, 2025
Landal Park Eksel with kids: a small park, plenty of freedom, no pool
Landal Park Eksel is a small, family-friendly park just across the Belgian border. With plenty of outdoor space, freedom for kids and a calm atmospher...
Our stories
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August 17, 2025
Travel without a script
We stopped following plans that no longer fit. Not to escape, but to live more honestly. Travel, for us, no longer follows a script and that’s exact...
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July 10, 2025
Landal Mooi Zutendaal with kids: 110 m² house, own garden, 2.5 hours from Utrecht
Landal Mooi Zutendaal with kids in June: fourteen nights in a 110 m² house with its own garden, 2.5 hours from Utrecht, for around 159 euros a night....
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June 21, 2025
Camping Les Brunelles, Longeville-sur-Mer with kids: lazy river, low tide and Puy du Fou
Camping Les Brunelles in Longeville-sur-Mer with kids, in June, in a lodge bigger than expected. The heated pool with its lazy river featured every da...
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June 3, 2025
Argelès-sur-Mer with kids: why we keep coming back
A place we have returned to again and again. Argelès-sur-Mer combines pebble beaches, mountain landscapes and a relaxed family rhythm. From quiet May...
Our stories
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May 25, 2025
Finding ease again
After months of uncertainty, something shifted. Not because everything was solved, but because the weight lifted. This chapter is about finding ease...
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April 20, 2025
Denmark in spring with kids: Ribe, Vejers Strand and Varde Sommerland
March and early April in Denmark with kids, this time in an apartment rather than a holiday house. Three places that made spring: the free Riplay play...
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February 14, 2025
LEGO House in Billund with kids: what it costs and how long you need
A day at LEGO House in Billund, Denmark with children of just 4 and 7 plus their grandparents: 175 euros entry in low season, 250 euros for lunch at M...
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February 10, 2025
Denmark in winter with kids: four weeks in January, and why not again
Four weeks of January in Denmark with kids: grey and misty rather than snowy, coastal cafés shut and museums on winter hours. What did work: LEGO Hous...
Our stories
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February 5, 2025
When the ground shifted
There was no big moment, no clear warning. Just a quiet shift, and suddenly the ground beneath us didn’t feel as solid anymore. We made choices qu...
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December 22, 2024
Christmas in London with kids: a week in December, by train and bus
A week of Christmas in London with kids, by train there and by bus around town (top deck, slower, much calmer than the tube). The Harry Potter Studio...
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November 17, 2024
Center Parcs Allgäu with kids in November: a ten-hour drive, the longest wild water river
Center Parcs Allgäu with kids in November: a ten-hour drive, and still our second visit. The wild water river in the Aqua Mundo is the longest of any...
Our stories
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October 15, 2024
The in-between
We didn’t stop traveling. We stopped committing to a plan before understanding what actually worked for us. This was the season in between.
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October 1, 2024
Letting go of the plan
We didn’t stop traveling, we stopped pushing ourselves to follow a plan that no longer fit. This is the story of learning to pause, adjust, and choos...
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September 30, 2024
Tuscany with kids by car: Volterra, Certaldo Alto, Pisa and Florence
Tuscany with kids by car, from an apartment in San Quirico in Collina (great view, no garden, next time we want one). Certaldo Alto (little cable car)...
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September 22, 2024
Vidauban with kids: a holiday park among the vineyards, coast 45 minutes away
Seventeen nights at Le Clos des Oliviers in Vidauban, among the vineyards of the Provence Verte. Not a campsite but a holiday park, with an unheated o...
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September 3, 2024
The Jura with kids in summer: a stone house without air conditioning, Lac de Chalain
A summer week in the Jura with kids, in an 18th-century stone house with no air con while it was over 30°C day after day. Lac de Chalain (half an hour...
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August 26, 2024
The Eifel with kids
We spent a week in the Eifel with our kids and chose to do less instead of everything. This is our honest experience, what worked for us, and why that...
Our stories
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January 14, 2024