I was hoping all you sexy mumma's (and pappa's) would be able to give me some advice.

In July, DH and I will be travelling to Europe with Allegra (who will be almost 6 months by then) and I was hoping some of you could give me some tips for making our life a little easier (apart from saying dont go as most of our family and friends are saying) on the trip.

You see, I won two return business class tickets to europe and they expire at the end of August, so I really dont want them to go to waste (another reason I suspect everyone is telling us NOT to go, perhaps they think I will give the tickets to them?) so we decided that we are going to take the plunge and fly to Zurich, where we will stay with friends and then we are hiring a car and travelling into Italy.

We have worked out that hiring a good 4-wheel drive with a baby seat is the best way to travel as we can stop when we like and its easy for us to see all the things we want without physically lugging stuff through train stations and airports etc.

Also wanted to see what everyone's opinion would be of prams etc. We have the Bugaboo frog, which has a basinette so we thought that we could take that with us and Allegra could sleep in it at night too but I dont want it to get trashed (which we know it will) do you think its a better option to buy a cheaper pram (say on ebay) and a travel basinette? I figured if I did that I could always leave the pram at our last destination and donate it to an ophanage or pre-school etc.

Anyway, suggestions would be most appreciated. I did look on the travel with babies list on the main site and that also was helpful..

Sorry about the rambling