The city of Southampton is in Hampshire on England’s south coast and has been an important sea port for centuries. Today Southampton is the UK’s leading cruise port. The Mayflower initially sailed from here for America in 1620, before stopping off at Plymouth. The Titanic sailed from Southampton in 1912, and author Jane Austen lived in the […]
English Tourism Week
English Tourism Week is an annual celebration of the many great things for visitors to see and do in England. This year the event runs from 5th – 13th March, and I’m taking part in a blogger carnival to mark the occasion. Each of us has chosen three locations in England to showcase. My chosen […]
Holiday snaps: Yaverland, Isle of Wight
I took this photo one morning on a trip to the Isle of Wight during the 2013 October half term holiday. I was with my husband and son and we’d just arrived at Yaverland beach for a guided fossil hunting walk. There’d been a huge storm across southern England during the night and we weren’t sure whether or not the […]
Fossil hunting on the Isle of Wight
Family fossil walks The thing is with fossil hunting that you never know what you’ll find. The end of winter is the best time of year to go – I learnt this on a guided family fossil walk on Yaverland beach in the Isle of Wight. I was were there with my husband and the […]
Things to do in the Isle of Wight with kids
There are loads of things to do on the Isle of Wight with kids. The island lies just a few miles off the coast of Hampshire in southern England and is a motorway-free oasis. I visited the Isle of Wight one October half term with my husband and ten year-old son. We stayed at the island’s […]
Secret rocket testing site on the Isle of Wight
The last thing I expect to find when we visit the Isle of Wight is a secret rocket testing site. I wasn’t even aware that Britain had ever launched a space rocket. But we come across an exhibition in Newport called Chasing Sputnik and learn that rockets were indeed tested on the island during the […]
A family-friendly hotel on the Isle of Wight.
‘Mum, there’s a pirate ship outside!’ My ten year-old is looking out of the window of our second floor hotel room on the Isle of Wight. The Premier Inn hotel in Newport is on the quayside of the town’s harbour on the Medina River and there’s a large, rusty boat sporting a black and white […]
Family car review: a Skoda Yeti on the Isle of Wight
‘Can we keep it?’ says my ten year-old. He’s talking about the car I’ve been asked to review. He’s not even seen the car yet but we’re walking from his school to where it’s parked and I’ve just told him that it has an iPad holder and a hot and cold box for food and […]
