Usually we travel around rather than staying in one place during our family summer holiday, so that we can explore as much as possible. But when we were planning this summer’s trip the kids (18 and 14) said that they just wanted to stay in one place and relax. So we needed to find somewhere […]
Trying on new summer holiday clothes
I arrive back from our relaxing family holiday in sunny Spain to a marvellous surprise – a parcel of new summer clothes. The parcel is from SimplyBe, a women’s fashion website, and is a welcome distraction from the unseasonably chilly English weather. My calendar tells me that it’s definitely August, yet it’s so cold that […]
How to explore Cinque Terre, Italy
For my birthday last year two of my best friends gave me a fantastic present – they said that they were taking me on an adventure. I didn’t know where we were going or what we were doing, but I knew that I’d love whatever they arranged – we know each other inside out, and […]
Things to do in London with kids: August
If you’re visiting London with children this summer there are lots of fantastic things to experience. Here’s my pick of the best things to see and do in the city this month – let me know if you have any tips to add. The Jungle Book Metta Theatre bring their cutting edge production of The […]
Ægir Brewpub review: Viking food in the Norwegian fjords
This is a guest post by Nell Heshram, a travel writer and blogger who lives in London with her partner and two young children. She gets away whenever life, and school holidays, allow. The family also enjoy exploring territory closer to home, in London. You can read more about their adventures on Nell’s blog the […]
How to use Santander hire bikes to explore London
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 […]
