family life & travels
If you like all things cream tea and classically British, then you may have already known National Cream Tea Day that happened just a couple of days ago on 28th June. Is there a better day on the calendar?! When you think about cream tea, the natural thing to think about, at least for me,
While many UK holidaymakers may still command the notably bad press that follows gaggles of revellers across Europe every summer, the once stereotypical notion of permanently intoxicated Brits abroad is becoming a thing of the past. More and more, people are demanding… more and more… from their holidays, including breaks and retreats that are neither
Packing to go on holiday can be a NIGHTMARE. For some reason, we always feel the need to over prepare. Despite only going for seven days and nights, we feel the need to take enough outfits to see us through the average month at home, and enough medical supplies to fill a hospital. Make your
“Anyone up for camping this weekend?” We are a family who loves the outdoors, we love to be out in the fresh open air. Philosopher and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote: “In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.” There’s no doubt that being at
I have been eating a vegetarian diet for a year and a half now, and while I generally don’t have too much of a problem with this on a day to day basis, when we go travelling, whether at home or abroad, it does mean some restrictions and having to choose some pretty bland food
When I think of planning a family trip abroad, then there are a few things that usually make the list; good food, good weather, a beach, and plenty of things to do with the kids. So Madrid probably isn’t normally somewhere that comes to mind for a family trip, with it being in the centre
Are you planning your next trip? Would you like to go somewhere new, exciting and out of the ordinary? Maybe you’re running out of ideas of where to go and what to do. This world offers so many spectacular sights, don’t dream of what might have been – get out there and do it. It’s
Last weekend we had a little trip down to Dorset and Hampshire, as we had a day to explore the south coast, and then the second day to have an adventure day in the New Forest. I don’t know why we don’t head down there more often as it is less than two hours away
I have only ever been down to Dorset a handful of times; a couple of those times when we I was younger and we’d visit friends living in Christchurch, and then a couple of years ago we went as a family for the first time to visit Poole, Swanage, and Durdle Door areas of the
