Europe Packing List for Families - Three Printable Pages (Free)

Three pages. Print it, tick it, and stop doing this from memory at eleven at night with a suitcase open on the floor.

Two decisions make or break a family trip to Europe — the stroller and the meal times — and both get settled before you fly.

Including the part no packing list covers: what you do to the house before you lock the door.

ON THE PAGE

· The stroller question. The Paris metro is stairs, and the old towns are cobbles. The page tells you when a carrier beats a stroller.

· Children's documents — and the consent letter some borders ask for when one parent travels alone with a child.

· Snacks, and why they matter more in Spain than anywhere else: dinner starts at 21:30 and the restaurant is empty before it.

· Medicines in children's doses, which are not always sold the same way there.

· Train legs — what to bring for a two-hour journey so that it stays two hours.

· Water shoes, if a beach is on the trip. The Riviera is pebbles, not sand, and barefoot genuinely hurts.

· Pace. An adult day in Paris is 12.7 km on foot. The page says what to cut.

· The house: water, gas, heating, bins, plants, mail, and who has a key.

Free. Three pages, A4, prints in black and white.

The full 24-page version explains every line, country by country.