We decided to climb Pen y Fan with our 6 and 8-year-old kids on holiday in the Brecon Beacons last summer. Pen y Fan is the highest peak in South Wales and one of the most popular mountains in the Brecon Beacons, so we thought it would be great for them to be able to […]
Family: 31 February half-term activities in London (and the rest of the UK)
I feel like a one-woman listings magazine at the moment. I’ve spent the past few weeks working on content about February half-term 2019, from things to do with kids in London, to the best places to take the family to in the UK. It’s fair to say there are some very cool things going on […]
Travel: 15 reasons to visit New Barn Farm – a Feather Down Glamping break in Carlton
We’ve just got back from a weekend glamping at New Barn Farm, a luxury Feather Down campsite that’s 20 minutes down the road from us in Carlton, Bedfordshire. We fell in love with the place and I’ve written a full review of our stay for Mini Travellers (I’ll link it when it’s live), so do […]
Travel: Stapleford Park hotel review – a country house that’s grand, not grandiose
‘Are we really going to stay here?’ asked my little boy, wide-eyed, as we pulled up outside Stapleford Park Hotel. It’s a fair question, given the grandeur of this Grade-I listed country house in Melton Mowbray. The mansion’s pristine exterior is nothing short of magnificent, and the approach – through a 500-acre buffer of neat […]
Travel: il Magico Paese Di Natale, Govone – Our family trip to Italy
My job as a copywriter – which is mostly for travel brands – usually means I’m writing about exciting, exotic locations on the other side of the world while sitting at my desk in the draughty bay window of my bedroom (more about that in my post about how not to go freelance). Occasionally, though, it […]
Travel: A family day at the zoo – Paradise Wildlife Park, Hertfordshire
I’ve finally had a chance to make a little vlog of our day at Paradise Wildlife Park just before the kids went back to school last month. The zoo is in Broxbourne, about an hour’s drive from us, or half an hour out from London, and in all honesty I don’t know how we’ve not […]
Travel: 7 easy ways to get children and babies to sleep on holiday
‘How do I get my baby to sleep when we go on holiday?’ It’s a question I found myself frantically typing into Google before our first overseas trip with our 9-month-old baby boy. Fast-forward four years and that baby boy is at school, now has a younger sister, and has been on more holidays than I did in […]
Travel: Venice with kids – 7 essential tips plus how to get a gondola ride
Do you catch a gondola? Ride one? Get one? I don’t know. I just know that I Googled ‘how to do gondola ride Venice’ and ‘Venice with kids’ a fair bit before we went to Italy in June, and didn’t quite find the info I was looking for. So, here it is. Here’s what we […]
Travel: our Sicily daytrip to Ortigia, Syracuse with kids
We’re in the process or organising a road trip across Italy with our kids this June. My four-year-old starts school in September, so it feels like a good year to do an extended holiday. Plus, I went freelance at the end of last year so, for the first time ever, it’s only the husband who […]
Travel: The boy designed a Trunki and it’s not pink. (I know, right?)
We had a good couple of years where my son’s favourite colour was pink. He was adamant that it was the best colour IN THE WORLD and that everything should be pink (and white – white was also allowed), and it’s only recently, some time between the ages of three and four, that he’s decided […]