Discovery Cove in Orlando is like no other theme park I’ve ever heard of or been to. It only admits around 1300 guests each day and when you arrive it’s like checking in to an exclusive hotel. Your entrance ticket includes swimming with dolphins and as much as you’d like to eat and drink from the […]
Beaver Water World
The youngest and I went to Kent’s Beaver Water World at the weekend. The eldest was otherwise engaged, shivering through the icy tent flaps of her D of E expedition while my husband is somewhere in the Americas. Beaver Water World is tucked away in Tatsfield near Westerham on the same site as a shop selling tropical […]
Thorpe Park
This week I was thrilled to learn that Mums do travel is on the Travel shortlist for the 2013 BritMums BiB awards for parent bloggers. If you voted for me, thank you very much and if you feel like voting for me (or any of the other shortlisted blogs) to get through to the final stage, that would […]
Ten tips for family travel to Pompeii
The eldest and I were lucky enough to visit Pompeii during the Easter holidays as guests of The Adventure Travel Company on their family tour of the Bay of Naples. Here are our tips to help you make the most of your visit to the ancient ruins with kids. One To find out about Pompeii […]
Sorrento and Ravello
I’m in Italy this week on a fabulous family tour around the Bay of Naples with my teen, as guests of The Adventure Company. I’m missing my husband and the youngest, of course, but we’re having a great time. We started off in the lively city of Naples, are now in the more relaxed Sorrento […]
Zippos Circus
I’ve just spent an amazing afternoon watching the wonderful acts at Zippos Circus. It was especially amazing because the two thoroughly over-excited small boys with me (the youngest and one of his cousins) were so impressed that they actually piped down enough to watch the show. They adored the clever, silly, funny Delbosq clowns, and decided that the Havana Troupe […]
Life and death in Pompeii and Herculaneum exhibition
I was lucky enough to attend the press view of the British Museum’s astonishing new ‘Life and death in Pompeii and Herculaneum’ exhibition this week, and I can’t stop talking about it. The people living around Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 had no idea of its danger and didn’t understand the warning signs that it […]
Tate Modern with kids
I was surprised and thrilled to find that I’m one of the 2013 MAD blog award finalists in the Best Travel Blog category. If you nominated me, thank you, I really appreciate it. So, we sped around level four of London’s Tate Modern with the cousins during the half term break. The youngest had been given an […]
The Story Museum, Oxford
Oxford’s Story Museum aims to celebrate and promote children’s literature, and is due to open in the city centre in 2015. It should be a great success if its patrons are anything to go by: the fabulous authors Philip Pullman, Michael Rosen, Michael Morpurgo and Jacqueline Wilson. At the moment the museum runs outreach programmes in […]
Designed to Win exhibition at London’s Design Museum
Everyone in our house loved the Olympics and is looking forward to the paralympics next week. We watched the Olympics on TV but were lucky enough to get some tickets for the paralympic athletics. The youngest (9) and I have been enjoying Jon Snow’s Paralympic Show http://www.channel4.com/programmes/jon-snows-paralympic-show every day on Channel 4. When we saw […]
