If you’ve visited London over the last few years, you may have noticed clutches of chunky hire bikes sitting at docking stations and being ridden around the city. These public bikes (annoyingly known as ‘Boris bikes’, after the mayor who was in post at the time that they were launched) are currently sponsored by Santander, […]
Why Belfast is great for a family trip with teenagers
I’m taking part in a European City Carnival with a group of fellow bloggers. Each of us is highlighting a different European city which we’ve enjoyed visiting with our families. We’re each creating a post about our chosen city, and linking up with each other’s posts. I’m writing about Belfast, which I visited last summer […]
Eurocamp: Le Brasilia campsite review
This is a guest post by Steph Curtis, who blogs at Steph’s Two Girls. Steph writes about family life with an autistic child – her younger daughter has Pathological Demand Avoidance Syndrome (PDA). During the May half term Steph, her husband and their daughters (aged 12 and 10 years old) spent a week in the South […]
How to have a vintage family slide show
For the last decade or so, my cousins, siblings and I have been getting together all of our extended family (on my dad’s side) for lunch at one of our houses every two or three years. There are now 28 of us, ranging from my parents, uncle and aunt, who are all in their seventies, […]
Review: Groombridge Place, Kent
On a summer Sunday afternoon my 18 year-old daughter and I go for a stroll around Groombridge Place Enchanted Forest and Gardens. Groombridge is a gorgeous 17th century moated manor house near Tunbridge Wells in Kent, with a 200-acre estate with woodland and historic formal gardens to explore. We used to go there a lot […]
Things to do in London with kids: July
There are always loads of great things to do on a family day out in London, and each month I publish a round-up of some of the best. This month’s is a bumper edition as there’s so much on offer. Do let me know if there’s anything which you’d like me to include next time. […]
London Gatwick Airport travel tips
I’ve spent most of my life in places which are within striking distance of London Gatwick Airport. As a child I used to wave to the planes and imagine where they were going as they flew over our house, and one of my favourite school trips was to Gatwick’s air traffic control tower. As a […]
Why we use house sitters for our pets when we travel
If you have pets, who looks after them when you travel? We’ve tried a few different options over the years, but for our last couple of family trips we’ve had house sitters looking after our home and pets, and it’s worked really well. I’ve found our house sitters through trustedhousesitters.com, a network which links pet […]
17 places to find the world of Harry Potter in London
London is a wonderful destination to visit if you’re a Harry Potter fan. There are places across the city which are either mentioned in J.K. Rowling’s celebrated book series or used as locations for the subsequent films, or both. Here are 17 of the best places to go if you’d like to explore the world of […]
Things to do in London with kids: June
There are always loads of interesting things to see and do with kids in London, and each month I publish a roundup of some of the best. Here’s my selection for June – remember that it’s Father’s Day on Sunday June 18th, just in case you’d like a family day out for the occasion. Do […]
