I’d never been to Maulden until a couple of weeks ago. The pretty Bedfordshire village sits about half-way between Bedford and Luton on the A6, and ten minutes from Center Parcs Woburn Forest (which we’ve been to a lot), so I must have passed it a million times. But despite having lived down the road […]
Travel: The best bath of my life at Ellenborough Park Hotel, Cheltenham
‘This place is bigger than our front room. And our kitchen. And our upstairs. Put together.’ Those were the first words to come out of my mouth as I walked into our suite at Ellenborough Park hotel in Cheltenham. Apart from an unintelligible combination of ‘woooooah’ and ‘ohmywordwouldyoulookatthisplace’, of course. And it was no understatement, […]
Travel: Winter Wonderland at Center Parcs Sherwood Forest
*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 […]
Family: How To Do Legoland With Toddlers And Under-4s
We took the kids to Legoland Windsor for the second time a couple of weeks back and had such a lovely day. Last time we went – almost a year ago to the day – my eldest, then a toddler, was only just tall enough to go on a handful of the rides, and my […]