Meet the Berman’s

I created this blog to write about my love for travel with a focus on interracial family travel and food. My husband and are an interracial couple and we have a 7 year old daughter. We have been traveling with her since she was 5 months old and we have been going non stop ever since. My husband is a foodie, hence the food portion of my blog.

Family travel is both fun and rewarding. Family travel, especially with young children will come with challenges. I remember the stroller and car seat stress, diaper changes in random places, our daughter throwing up in the car during the drive from Denver to Aspen Colorado. A word of caution your hands are not meant to be a vessel for holding your child’s vomit. It wasn’t fun then, but now we can have a good laugh at our throw up adventures.

Travelling opens your child’s mind to different experiences and cultures. On a recent trip the Bahamas, my daughter asks, “if we are in Antigua because there are a lot of brown people who like mummy?” We had a good chuckle because I had taken her to Antigua a few months before and that left an impression on her little mind.

Because we travel often and stay at hotels, my daughter automatically assumes that when we travel we will stay at a hotel. In 2018 we traveled to Antigua, for a friend’s wedding. As we walked down the tiny steps of the aircraft, the first thing she asked was, “mummy what hotel are we staying at?” To her surprise, we were not staying at hotel but at my home with my mom who lives in Antigua.

To my surprise she adjusted to village life, taking bucket baths, chasing the yard fowls, and playing with the yard dogs.

My daughter will never know the joys of growing up in a small village on an island. She will never cart water from a standpipe, run barefoot on dusty, graveled roads, climb mango trees, play marbles in the dirt, drink granny’s homemade bush tea. She will only get a small snippet of my life growing up in Antigua.

My hope is that our family travels & food adventures will allow her to appreciate the beauty that the world has to offer and appreciate her cultural diversity of having a Jewish father and an Antigua mother.