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: So…We’re Flying To Turin For A Christmas Adventure In Italy!
I’m already ridiculously excited about Christmas. The kids are at that lovely age where they’re old enough to get excited with me, and young enough to still believe in all the magic around it. And that’s why, after a fair bit of umming and aahing, I’ve decided to bite the bullet and take them to […]
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 first Eurocamp holiday to Ca’Savio and Bella Italia, Italy
I’m going to start this review with a confession: I thought Eurocamp was all about camping. I’ve grown up knowing the name – it’s one of those brands that everybody’s heard of, after all, and I remember friends going on Eurocamp holidays with their families when I was growing up. But, not being the world’s […]
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: 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 […]