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London & Paris sticker books giveaway

January 26, 2015 by Gretta Schifano 9 Comments

Detail from Stickyscape Paris cover

 Stickyscapes This month sees the publication of two beautiful new sticker books for children. Stickyscapes: London by Robert Samuel Hanson and Stickyscapes: Paris by Malika Favre are published by Laurence King. Each book contains 100 re-usable stickers and a double-sided concertina cityscape to stick them on and I have two copies of each book to give […]

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Categories: Book reviews, Competitions
Tags: children's books, London, Paris, sticker books

London: Ripley’s Believe It or Not

December 5, 2014 by Gretta Schifano 11 Comments

Knitted Ferrari, Ripley's Beleive It or Not. Copyright Gretta Schifano

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 […]

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Categories: Attractions, Things to do in London with kids
Tags: family-friendly London, London, London attractions

Life and death in Pompeii and Herculaneum exhibition

March 27, 2013 by Gretta Schifano 5 Comments

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 […]

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Categories: Attractions, City, London
Tags: British Museum, exhibition, Life and death in Pompeii and Herculaneum, London

Brunch and kids’ cooking at London’s Cookbook Cafe

March 25, 2013 by Gretta Schifano Leave a Comment

kristina, 5, decorating an easter egg

This weekend the eldest and I left the boys at home and went for brunch at The Cookbook Cafe. We’d been invited to review the new kids’ cooking sessions on offer there. The eldest was pleased with her lemonade and strawberry Bellini to match my sparkling wine and blackberry one, and we agreed that Bellinis are a Good Thing. […]

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Categories: City, London, Where to stay
Tags: brunch, Cookbook Cafe, family-friendly hotel, InterContinental, Kids Cook, London

Tate Modern with kids

March 11, 2013 by Gretta Schifano 2 Comments

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 […]

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Categories: Attractions, City, Things to do in London with kids
Tags: Cubism, London, London galleries with kids, Picasso, Tate Modern, Tate Modern with kids

Things to do in London with teens

December 16, 2012 by Gretta Schifano 2 Comments

Italian teens & Mr Bean performer, London Southbank. Copyright Gretta Schifano

Recently the eldest and I acted as London tour guides for some Italian friends: a family with three teenagers. We didn’t really plan where to go, but our route evolved into a tour of many of the major London sights. The teenagers enjoyed it, so I thought it worth sharing. Our friends were staying at the […]

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Categories: City, Teens, Things to do in London with kids
Tags: Big Ben, Buckingham Palace, London, London for teens, Mr Bean, Southbank, travel with kids, UK travel

Designed to Win exhibition at London’s Design Museum

August 25, 2012 by Gretta Schifano Leave a Comment

olympic mascot wedlock by the thames

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. George (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 the piece about […]

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Categories: Attractions, City, London, Seasonal
Tags: blind football, David Beckham, Design Museum, Designed to Win, Headley Court, Jon Snow, London, London 2012, murderball, Olympics, paralympics, Thames, travel, wheelchair rugby

V&A exhibition – Heatherwick Studio: Designing the Extraordinary

August 22, 2012 by Gretta Schifano 3 Comments

heatherwick spinning chair

This exhibition runs until September 30th as part of a season of events celebrating British design, and my daughter Bella and I went along to see it at the weekend. Although London’s V&A Museum is free, there is a charge for the exhibition: it cost £10 for the two of us. The tickets are timed, […]

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Categories: Attractions, City, London, Seasonal
Tags: cloud bridge, day trips, design, Designing the Extraordinary, exhibitions, Heatherwick, London, Longchamp zip bag, Olympic cauldron, spinning chair, Thomas Heatherwick, travel, V&A, Victoria & Albert Museum, Worthing swimming pool

London Transport Museum

February 13, 2012 by Gretta Schifano Leave a Comment

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      Parked in the middle of Covent Garden, the London Transport Museum shows the development of public transport in the city from sedan chairs right up to Emirates Air-Line, a London cable car coming this summer. Kids get in for free, and are issued with a card on arrival to follow a ‘stamper trail’ around […]

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Categories: Attractions, City, Things to do in London with kids
Tags: day trips, family, kids, London, London Transport Museum, museums, stamper trail

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