at the museum, as well as 2 hours for return travel. For more information visit www.ghibli-museum.jp Visit Crayon House Feast on sashimi, noodle and tofu dishes, then let the children explore the Japanese toys and 50,000 children’s books for all ages at Crayon

the best route to walk. “You can’t walk there,” she told me. But it’s not far; surely we could walk. “Well, you can walk, but it will take you a long time,” she shrugged. “How long?” I asked, a bit confused. “Well, like, ten minutes.” So off we set

The feeling is familiar: you’re sitting in the departure lounge waiting to board that long-haul flight, watching your fellow travellers milling about, hoping, praying, that the two small children screaming and climbing over the seats

kid on the Dubai block is Atlantis, a huge pink palace of gargantuan proportions that cradles the crescent of The Palm Jumeirah, a man-made island in the shape of a palm tree that spans two kilometres in length. Our route to the hotel is lined

was filled with brand-new toys that hadn’t even been taken out of the packaging. And they were both really dying to try out the swimming pool, so by about five o’clock – when it was still hot but not stifling – we headed down to the cool black infinity pool