First holiday
Heading on our first holiday to Greece in a couple of weeks with our six month old. What are the key things we should be taking/ tips for both for making the flight as easy as possible and for whilst we are there?
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We did greece a few weeks ago with 5 month old. Main advice that worked brilliantly for us was keeping her on english time. They are 2hrs ahead so a 7:30pm bedtime became 9:30pm which meant we could have a bit of an evening out, dinner and a drink. Then we just came back to the hotel and played cards on the balcony thereafter. It meant she didnt wake up til later in the mornings (8am wake up was 10am) so we were never first at the pool but we just leant into the lazy morning! She liked the baby pool float to bob about in. We bought a wrap top from Splash About that is wetsuit material to keep heat in as I was aware the pool might be quite cold for her and i think that did help. I got one from vinted. Have a great time!
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