When we planned touring France in our camper van last year we had grand ideas of exploring Normandy and the D-Day landing sites. As you know, Marcus is our war nut and he was very excited at the prospect of going there. Of course, ideas change and we ended up hot footing it down to […]
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No trip to Istanbul is complete without the Bosphorus cruise day trips that let you cross over to another continent in a day. We love boat trips so we were excited when the day arrived that we would make that trip. I’d been to Asia before when I visited Israel back in my late teens, […]
We absolutely adored our first time in Istanbul and would love to return. If you’re wondering what is worth visiting in Istanbul for kids then read on for what our tips are. We didn’t manage to go everywhere of course! Things to do in Istanbul for kids Istanbul and Turkey are great for kids, the people […]
We’ve just returned from a lovely 4 night trip to Istanbul. It was part wedding anniversary trip, part wedding present trip since the flights were bought using vouchers we received for our wedding 7 years ago! We flew from London Heathrow which isn’t exactly local to us, but we have friends who don’t live too far […]
I’ve written a few times about our trips to the Isle of Rum. You can find one of them here If you’ve never heard of it, it’s an island on the West coast of Scotland and you reach it by ferry from Mallaig. Although is the largest of the Small Isles, it has a very […]
When you’re this far north in Scotland, the tourist sites are few and far between. We did, however, happen upon three rather good places to note. Friends of ours who had done a similar route to us had given us some ideas for free places to explore and stop near, and sometimes recommendation is the […]
Scotland whisky tour on your bucket list but not sure how to do it on a family holiday? I think you really need to keep a whisky distillery tour on your list of things to do, even with your children. Even with kids? Yes of course! Where we were staying in the Highlands of Scotland […]
Summer! So that means that the Highland Games in Scotland will be starting. I had hoped that we would be lucky and find some event close by that we could visit and we were. Not only were the games close by, only 15 miles or so away in the town of Dufftown (I can’t help […]
We had a couple of days where we could explore a bit in the Highlands of Scotland, before our house sit actually began so we took the opportunity to explore a bit further afield than our base since we don’t like to go too far away when in charge of pets (even if the owners […]
On our slow journey north to our house sit, we stopped halfway at a cheap Travelodge in Kinross. For some reason, the kids absolutely love Travelodge rooms and get very excited to stay in them! All I am thinking is that they at least won’t have high standards when they go to travel as adults! […]
