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Cabin bag review: Booq Daypack

September 22, 2017 by Gretta Schifano Leave a Comment

Gretta Schifano in the Italian alps with Booq Daypack. Copyright Sal Schifano

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 […]

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Categories: Reviews, What to pack
Tags: backpacks, Cabin bags, hand luggage, packing

What’s it like to drive a Volvo V90 estate? Family car review

September 4, 2017 by Gretta Schifano 5 Comments

Crystal knob to start the engine on a Volvo V90. Copyright Gretta Schifano

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 […]

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Categories: Reviews, The journey
Tags: Family car review

Trying on new summer holiday clothes

August 11, 2017 by Gretta Schifano 6 Comments

Trying on SimplyBe new summer clothes, Copyright Gretta Schifano

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 […]

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Tags: holiday clothes, summer wardrobe

How to have a vintage family slide show

July 7, 2017 by Gretta Schifano 15 Comments

Family in the garden. Copyright Jack Heselden

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, […]

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Categories: Life in General, Reviews, What to pack
Tags: BenQ GS1 projector, travel gadgets

Cobra JumPack Power Pack review

February 13, 2017 by Gretta Schifano Leave a Comment

Cobra JumPack CPP8000 with iPhone

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 […]

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Tags: JumPack, Portable charger

Easy airport parking: Purple Parking meet and greet review

September 29, 2016 by Gretta Schifano 3 Comments

Meet and greet parking, London Heathrow airport. Copyright Gretta Schifano

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 […]

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Tags: Airport parking, Heathrow parking, meet and greet parking

POP COVER phone cases

January 4, 2016 by Gretta Schifano Leave a Comment

My POP COVER. Copyright Gretta Schifano

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 […]

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Tags: personalised mobile phone case

Tablet TV review

June 4, 2015 by Gretta Schifano 24 Comments

Getting a Freeview signal with the TabletTV tuner. Copyright Gretta Schifano

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 […]

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POP BOOK photobooks

March 27, 2015 by Gretta Schifano 22 Comments

POP BOOK. Copyright Gretta Schifano

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 […]

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Tags: apps, photobooks

SLPY: the wearable sleeping bag

March 10, 2015 by Gretta Schifano 15 Comments

Sleepy: back, front and side views. Copyright Gretta Schifano

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 […]

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Tags: Sleepy, wearable sleeping bag

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