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LAURA'S TRAVELS
When it is not physically possible, Laura travels through a good book, a film or a typical dish from a place she has visited or which will be among her next destinations. DolciViaggi it's the blog where we talk!
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My name is Laura, I am the mother of two beautiful children aged 7 and 10. My blog was born during the lockdown. I decided to create a website as a container for all the stories of my camper trips. Trips I take with my children Kevin and Giada and my husband Pierre. We were waiting for the arrival of our second camper and dreaming of this mirage of freedom and escape I decided to write, remembering trips already taken and planning new ones.
I immediately wanted to create a blog accessible to everyone, simple like me. Ideal for campers with lots of travel advice and directions to rest areas, but also useful for non-camper friends because after all when you visit a place it's the place that counts. Usually, before leaving I like to find out about the place by visiting multiple websites and guides for campers. I like this but it takes up a lot of time thinking about those like me who have children (time is always short) my blog aims to be a complete guide on what is significant to see in that place and complete for campers, both lovers of a free trip or stationary in campsites or equipped rest areas.
HOW DOES IT CHANGE THE WAY OF TRAVELING FROM A COUPLE TO A FAMILY?
How does the way of traveling change from couple to family? For us it was more of a change linked to emotions, in the sense that both of our parents made us experience traveling in a camper, so when we also became a family we wanted to try the experience with our children... I'll just tell you that when we sold our camper "Luna", Kevin started crying so much that we felt terribly guilty... obviously we were already thinking of replacing it with a more recent one, given that Luna came of age with us, but it's difficult to make a child understand that another one will arrive …by now “Luna” was part of the family.
For us the camper is a way of traveling according to our family rhythms and based on our "mood" in fact we happen to have a track program... for example we happened to arrive at a lake that seemed marvelous from photos and local descriptions but once we arrived we found ourselves in a surreal place... 15 minutes to regroup and off we go... towards the next destination. If we had booked in that place, we couldn't have had this type of attitude, and it's one thing to be just me and Pierre in a remote place in the middle of nowhere with such a crazy smell that instead of a lake I would have used another name, with the children it would have been very very stressful.
Traveling in a camper offers many freedoms but obviously it is not like staying in a 5 star hotel that is served and revered, it requires a spirit of adaptability and a desire to do things. It's not a way to travel for everyone. For us it is because we recognize our camper as an extension of our home, even in starred hotels. I used to bring Napisan wipes and various detergents with me. Four of us travel as much as we travel, the cost is another determining factor, in the sense that traveling with children involves traveling on weekends, long weekends and school holidays and therefore not always economical with a traditional trip.
Lest we forget that when they are small, even if you move for a weekend it seems like you are moving all the things you need, with the camper this inconvenience also disappears. The camper has brought us together a lot because when we go free there are only the 4 of us and therefore we find time for a family game, to tell stories of little thrills etc. These things in a traditional recreational context disappear because we interact much more with the new friendships that are created between children and between us adults.
Traveling as a family changes a lot, destinations and activities are always very focused on making children feel good while discovering wonderful and always new places.
FOOD AND TRAVEL, AN ESSENTIAL COMBINATION.
WHAT DO YOU DO TO MAKE YOUR LIFE GREENER?
I love the environment very much, certainly thanks to my studies in agriculture, which is why I always try to do everything possible to live in an ecological way and also raise my children with these values.
During my travels I continue to separate waste collection, buy products with less packaging, very often I recycle them, for example I reuse the ice cream trays for other products to freeze. The same goes for cooking, I always try to adopt cooking methods that allow me to consume less. For example, I use a pressure cooker, sometimes I cook pasta with the "fireless cooking method", I have already posted several articles about it on my blog.
During the lockdown we planted many plants on the terraces of the house to help the bees not become extinct. I also find your Hosting service very interesting; in short, I try to live as much as possible in a more ecological way to leave something for future generations.
Easy Travel Hosting thanks Laura very much for taking part in our interview and showing us different ways of travelling.
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