There are many things to remember when you’re going thorough airport security these days. If you have young children in tow it’s even more complicated and you never seem to have enough arms to hold everything. But you can make things easier for yourself by knowing what to expect and by being prepared. Here are […]
How to pack a family travel medical kit
What medicines do you pack when you travel with your kids? For me, plastic bags are a medical essential since our first family trip to Greece. Tonsillitis Our journey home from Greece just before my daughter’s second birthday was horribly memorable. She started vomiting as the plane took off and carried on at intervals throughout the two flights […]
Top 5 things to do in Singapore with kids
This is a guest post by Aimee Chan, who is the editor of the family travel website Suitcases & Strollers, and who is based in Singapore. When she’s not working, Aimee enjoys hanging out with her young son and here she shares her favourite things to do with children where they live. Sentosa It’s tacky, kitschy […]
Family Days – share yours
This is a weekly Linky to share your posts on family days out with children. If you’ve had a good day out with the kids recently then please tell all, we’d love to read about it and may even want to go there too! From the lovely park up the road to somewhere fab you’ve found […]
Wild camping
Sponsored post Phoebe Smith loves wild camping so much that she’s written a book about her experiences: Extreme Sleeps – Adventures of a Wild Camper. In case you don’t know (I didn’t) wild camping is sleeping in remote places, away from campsites. Phoebe’s first wild camping trip was in Australia and that inspired her to repeat […]
Packing for a Trip with Friends
I need to pack for a trip which I’ve been looking forward to for a year. I’m setting off tomorrow, early, but I haven’t even thought about what to take because it’s a Trip with Friends. This is completely different to a Trip with Children. Packing for that kind of trip involves several open suitcases […]
Cap de Creus by catamaran
Catalonia’s beautiful Costa Brava is the easternmost point of Spain, bordering France on the Mediterranean coast. I was there during the half-term holiday with the eldest on a BritMums parent blogger trip, as guests of the Costa Brava tourist board. I’ve spent a lot of time in Spain, but this was my first visit to […]
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 […]
5 things I learnt at SeaWorld Orlando
My first trip to Florida was to review SeaWorld Orlando’s Antarctica: Empire of the Penguin. It was the company’s biggest ever expansion of a single attraction and I was sent there before it opened in order to write a newspaper feature about it. It felt very odd visiting Florida for the first time with no children […]
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, […]
