Last weekend I had my tightest packing challenge ever: a weekend in the Italian Alps with just a small backpack for my luggage. I was in Italy with my husband to celebrate a friend’s birthday, and I was trying out a new bag which I’d been sent to review: a Booq Daypack. I have to […]
What’s it like to drive a Volvo V90 estate? Family car review
We bought our first Volvo for one reason only – safety. I’d not bothered about cars much, as long as they worked, until I had a horrible car crash on the school run. My car rolled onto its side and was written off. I remember it happening as if in slow motion, and I remember […]
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 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, […]
Cobra JumPack Power Pack review
I was sent a travel gadget to try out, and I’ve found it really useful, so I thought that I’d share it with you. It’s the Cobra JumPack Jump Starter Power Pack and I’ve been using it to charge my phone when I can’t plug it in to the mains. Apparently it can also be used to […]
Easy airport parking: Purple Parking meet and greet review
The only way to get to an airport from our house is by car (unless we go for a tortuous car/bus/train combo which would add aeons to our journey). So, we either 1) get a lift from a kindly friend or relation, or 2) fork out for a taxi (if we remember to book a week […]
POP COVER phone cases
Following my review of the POP BOOK, an excellent app from Fujifilm which enables you to convert your images into high quality, pocket-sized books. Fujifilm now offer another option for your images: POP COVER. With POP COVER you can create a personalised case for your mobile phone or tablet. Fujifilm invited me to create a […]
Tablet TV review
I’m often asked to review things for Mums do travel. More often than not I say no because the thing which I’m being asked to review is inappropriate for a family travel website (an adults-only sightseeing tour anyone?) If my children are interested in something and it fits with the theme of family travel then I will […]
POP BOOK photobooks
In the days before digital cameras I would send my films away to be developed and then I’d wait for the resulting photos to be delivered back to me by post. When the 24 or 36 prints arrived it was always very exciting to see how they had turned out and to show them to […]
SLPY: the wearable sleeping bag
When I was invited to review a wearable sleeping bag I wasn’t keen. But when I showed my 12 year-old son the SLPY website he was thrilled at the prospect of trying one. SLPY When we opened the parcel containing the SLPY which we were sent to review it looked just like a normal sleeping […]
