I offer my thoughts about taking the kids to the Luberon area of Provence, where we have many years of vacation-with-kids experience, but I do so with the caveat that what worked for us—a family of three with many child guests–may not match the temperament and spirit of your family. Chart your own course—and let us know about your adventures. It’s nearing that time of year again: the annual family vacation. For us, summers have long been associated with packing up the family and heading to Provence. This summer, however, will herald a change in this long tradition of annual family vacations. Years of cramming weeks’ worth of stuff into our bags and taking planes, trains, and automobiles to Provence will come to a close. Our daughter is graduating and will soon dive into her first full-time job and begin to look forward to her own family vacations.So while this time of year will no longer elicit the retrieval of three sets of suitcases from the attic, signs of summer will always remind me of our many family vacations and stir nostalgia for those of my own childhood. All the planning, all the hassles, and all the expenses—wherever you [...]