Dublin may be known as a party city but it's also fabulously fun with children, whether it's a visit to an interactive museum or a family-friendly festival.Dublin Zoo Phoenix Park, Dublin 8. Tel: 00 353 1 474 8900; www.dublinzoo.ie. Set in the vast

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ViennaVienna is one of the few cities where both adults’ and children’s ideas of indulgence meet. To me, Vienna is old-world charm in unhurried cafés where Freud dreamt up theories and Trotsky planned a revolution. To my husband, it’s the setting

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with a family trip? A faint hesitation had crossed my mind too, but assured that Dublin is a family-friendly city, it felt like a wonderful way to introduce my three-year-old son, Joseph Patrick, to his Irish heritage – and what’s more, he would have his