Railway Journeys

I took this picture during our last holidays. It is one of the activities in 100 Things to do on a Journey, one of the most useful books you can have when you are travelling on long journey with a young child and you want to keep him entertained. It is kind of meta: you are in a train and you do activities about trains. Daddy loves this book just as much as Wolfie. it just struck me recently that we haven't been on a train journey, short or long, for months. And I wonder when the next one will be.

Things to do on a train journey

I blogged last year about 100 Things to do on a Journey, which I bought for Wolfie for our future holidays. It is a gamebook meant to keep children busy when they travel. We used it on our last holiday, but I intend to use it again soon on our next day trip by railway, as there are still plenty of activities to get through. I love planning train journeys, I get excited for them, often more than the destination. Books and train journeys always go well together, but this specific book is also interactive, which is a blessing when you travel with a young child. As any train lover knows, the journey is part of the fun, but it is sometimes less obvious for a young boy, so this book should come in handy.

100 Things to do on a Journey

What I love about bookshops, it's that we can find books we didn't know we needed, but can turn out to be very handy. So last time I visited the local bookshop, I stumble upon 100 Things to do on a Journey, which I bought right away. We are planning our next family holidays we it will involve a lot of train travel, so this book will be very useful to keep Wolfie entertained. Although train journeys can be entertaining in themselves, it's good to spend time with a nice book and this one has lots of games and activities. When I showed it to Wolfie, he was enthusiastic.