*Updated 09/11/17 with dates for Christmas 2017!* Earlier this week we got back from a visit to Center Parcs Sherwood Forest, as part of the Winter Wonderland season. We’ve been on lots of Center Parcs breaks before (more about those here), but never at Christmas, and it’s fair to say they go all-out on the […]
Travel: 50 Things To Pack For A Beach Holiday With Toddlers
We set off on our first overseas family holiday – to Sicily – with our 1-year-old and 3-year-old kids a few weeks back. I still have bad memories of working out what to pack for a previous holiday to Tuscany – my first ever trip with a baby (when I packed everything including the kitchen […]
Travel: Italy With Kids – Festa Di San Paolo In Palazzolo Acreide, Sicily
We got back from a week in Sicily on Sunday. It was our first holiday as a family of four, and – aside from a long delay at the airport due to a mix-up with our keys (to be fair, two screaming kids in the Europcar office probably sped things up a bit) and an […]
Travel: 5 Genius Travel Products For Under-5s
**UPDATE 22/6/16: Having now had a chance to test out the Prince Lionheart stroller clip I can confirm it is AWFUL and I can’t recommend it. So, I’ve swapped the link for another similar product that – although I haven’t tested and therefore can’t personally recommend – gets much better reviews online. Apologies.*** Holiday travel […]
Travel: How To Teach Your Toddler A Second Language (When You Don’t Speak One Yourself)
Let me start this post by explaining that – despite the fact we own several English-Italian bilingual books – neither my toddler, nor my preschooler, speaks a second language. Having said that, I’ve just backed a Kickstarter campaign to develop a new kind of language-learning book for children, and I think it could radically change […]
Travel: 5 Things That Are Awful At Home But Awesome On Holiday
We had a little family mini-break to Yorkshire last week through a company called Gorgeous Cottages, and I noticed something while we were there. When you go away on holiday in the UK – whether that’s to a caravan, a campsite or a cottage – something magical happens. Boring, everyday stuff that you do at […]
Travel: Tuscany With A Baby, Part 1 – Cerreto Guidi
Our first holiday abroad AK (after kids) was a week in Tuscany when The Boy was 9 months old, and it was quite possibly our best holiday yet. We’d already fallen in love with the Italian city of Florence on a trip there for work, and spent a long weekend in Cagliari – the capital […]
Travel: 3 places to buy cold-weather clothing for kids
Anyone who knows me well will know that I like to over-wrap my kids. The Boy went from one chest infection to another when he was tiny, and I’m always cold. Add them together and you have 2 children who are very well-layered at all times. And probably a little bit hot. I bought The […]