Word: familyhostel
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...tours involving activities like hiking or white-water rafting, the grandparents obviously need to be in good physical condition. But most tours allow for the differing energy and attention levels of the eight-year-old and the 80-year-old. When Familyhostel's tour of Greece reaches Delphi, reports director Robert McCaffery, the kids run to the top of the hill and around the stadium, working off energy, while the grandparents absorb history at ground level. Still, as Elderhostel's Richard Harris says, "any grandparent may find a whole week in charge of a child pretty exhausting...
Overwhelmingly, grandparents say, the greatest benefit is getting to know their grandchildren better--and having their grandchildren know them. Phyllis Bierstedt, 68, of Wilmington, Del., took her 16-year-old granddaughter Calli Speakman of Dover, Del.--one of 11 grandkids--to France last summer on a Familyhostel tour. "Having her alone and learning and seeing together created a bond that didn't exist before," she says. "It was really a gift to me as well, because my husband died a year...
...zeal to share memories and history drives many grandparents' choice of destinations. For Joyce Hall, a Familyhostel tour of France meant a stop at the Normandy beaches, where she shared childhood memories of World War II with granddaughter Saya, 11, of Tampa, Fla. "All my uncles went off to war," she recalls. "My brother and I played commandos, and we had Victory gardens and war bonds at Christmas. Our next-door neighbor's son was killed on D-day. Saya and I talked about the fact that our freedom was bought at a high price. I think...
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