This summer we went to Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy for our family holiday. It was very hot and we were pleased to have the chance to check out three water parks while we were staying on the Adriatic coast. The first water park which we visited was Atlantica, the second was Mirabilandia Beach and the […]
Family days out: Quex Park
‘Mum, I can’t believe you said that. Who says that? It’s so embarrassing’ says my son, in an outraged tone. ‘I’m proud of you and ashamed at the same time’ says my younger nephew, solemnly. My sister laughs and says: ‘Well I didn’t know what ‘re-spawn’ meant either!’ Quex Park We’re talking about paintballing. I’m […]
Atlantica water park, Cesenatico
This summer we went to the Emilia-Romagna region of Northern Italy for our family holiday. We (me, my husband and our daughter,17 and son,12) stayed in a few different places and we spent a week at Hotel Tiffany in the seaside town of Cesenatico. It was exceedingly hot while we were there (the temperature was […]
Bekonscot Model Village review
This is a guest post by Kate Ainscow. Bekonscot Model Village Bekonscot Model Village is in Beaconsfield, a quiet, rural town just 25 minutes by train from London. Bekonscot is a magical English minature village which is set in the 1930’s and is hidden away in a large old country garden in Buckinghamshire. Bekonscot is surrounded by […]
Westminster Abbey: family travel perspective
I’m reviewing a new guide book series- Marco Polo Spiral Guides… – and one of the first things that I see in the London book is a Top 10 list of the most important sights in the capital. At the top of the list is Westminster Abbey. I’ve lived half an hour outside of London for most […]
London: Ripley’s Believe It or Not
Ripley’s Believe It or Not ‘It would be useful to have an extra leg’ says my eleven year-old son. ‘’Why?’ I reply. ‘Because if one got chopped off then you’d have a spare.’ We’re looking at a display of unusual preserved animals including the body of a lamb with five legs. We’ve just come in […]
Ötzi Dorf Stone Age village, Austria
Ötzi Dorf is a recreation of a neolithic village in the unspoilt Ötztal valley in the Austrian Tirol. The open-air museum was inspired by the discovery of the body of a prehistoric man frozen in the mountains on the Italian-Austrian border in 1991. A couple of hikers found Ötzi (as he was named, after the […]
Things to do in London with kids
If you’re going to be in London at any point this summer with your kids there are loads of great things for you to do. Here are my top 10 suggestions – do you have any to add? What are your favourite things to do in London with kids? Imperial War Museum A transformed Imperial War […]
Mammoths: Ice Age Giants
‘I kind of want to touch it’ says my son. ‘Yeah…it’s really cool’ agrees his friend. We definitely can’t touch what we’re looking at: a baby woolly mammoth who lived around 42,000 years ago and is now on display in a glass case at London’s Natural History Museum. Lyuba Her name is Lyuba (pronounced Looba […]
Kensington Palace tour
‘In Georgian times anyone could come here and join the royal court as long as they were wearing the right clothes’ says Alison, our City Wonders tour guide. But the outfits on display barely qualify as clothes. I think they’re best described as expensive constructions: We’re at London’s Kensington Palace, purchased by King William and […]
