Boggy Creek Airboat Ride Alligator meat tastes best ‘cooked slow’ according to Tyler, captain of our boat. He works as a Nuisance Alligator Tracker as well as a Boggy Creek Airboat Ride captain so knows a thing or two about Florida’s famous reptiles. The State is home to around 1.6 million alligators and my son […]
Cooling down at the Orlando water parks
As the current sweeps my ten year-old son and me along we’re both laughing. My husband and teenage daughter have already managed to escape the water and are waiting for us. My son’s laughing with joy while I’m laughing partly because this is really fun and partly to hide a slight fear that we may […]
Anne Frank Museum, Amsterdam
While in Amsterdam my ten year-old son and I visit the secret annexe where Anne Frank, her family and four other Jewish people hid from the Nazis from July 1942 until August 1944. The rooms are part of the Anne Frank Museum in the city centre. I read Anne’s diary when I was at school […]
How to avoid the queues at Disney World
I can’t believe how much difference a library book made to our recent family holiday to Orlando. I dashed in for some guidebooks before we left and my haul included the Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World. It’s a brick of a book, 848 pages thick, and I imagined it would give the inside track on […]
Family Days: Getting lost at Walt Disney World
Did J K Rowling get the idea for magical places being ‘unplottable’ after a visit to Disney World? I think she may have done. Despite being armed with maps and guidebooks we managed to lose our way nearly every time we drove to Walt Disney World during our recent two-week trip to Orlando. There are […]
Family Days – share yours
This is a weekly Linky to share your posts on family days out with children. I didn’t to expect to see a slide like this when we went on a family day out in East Sussex this week. Knockhatch Adventure Park is near Eastbourne and the kids (my youngest and one of his cousins) absolutely loved […]
LEGOLAND Windsor
In the car on the way to LEGOLAND Windsor yesterday the youngest told us about a debate they’d had at school about the facial expressions of LEGO characters. His teacher must have been inspired by a news story last week of a scientific study showing that LEGO faces are getting angrier. So the youngest and I decided to […]
Dalí and the Costa Brava
Salvador Dalí, one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century, spent most of his life on the Costa Brava. I visited the area recently with my eldest on a parent blogger trip, and soon after we arrived we found ourselves sitting at Dalí’s favourite table at Restaurant Duran in Figueres. The table is in an […]
Family trip to Austria
I love walking, but my youngest most definitely does not. We live in a beautiful, rural area with National Trust woods and farmland just behind our house but he’s not keen on going for a walk, even with our lovely dog. So when the two of us were invited to spend a few days in […]
Thorpe Park review
Thorpe Park is a theme park in Surrey with roller coasters and other rides, and we had a great day there on Sunday. As I mentioned in a recent post, having looked at the shouty Thorpe Park website I was a little apprehensive about how our family trip there would pan out. However the kids, 14 and 10, […]
