When we decided to go to Germany we had a few ideas of places to see, and visiting Neuschwanstein castle, the fairy tale Bavarian castle of Ludwig II, was high on the list. Being on a tight budget on this road trip around Europe means that inevitably we have to make some choices about what […]
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We’re taking a year off from the rat race along side our kids so you can probably guess that I do think that travel is going to be worth it for our kids. But really, and especially in the case of younger kids, will they remember it? And if they won’t then is it worth […]
When we decided that we’d travel around Europe in a campervan for our big trip, we felt it would be quite a budget way of doing it. Of course, travel budgets are bandied about quite a lot and I’ve said before that we intend this trip to be at the very budget end of the […]
Remember remember the fifth of November Gunpowder, treason and plot. I see no reason why gunpowder, treason Should ever be forgot… A friend and I were discussing purely British celebrations the other week and we came up with Guy Fawkes Night and nothing else. Do we have any other events that we only celebrate […]
Well, we did it. We finally saved enough to buy ourselves a campervan. I can’t quite believe we have one, probably because she’s not staring at us every day as we’re keeping her on my mums drive for now. Anyway, here she is. She is a 1988 Fiat Dethleffs Globetrotter. She’s a little bit old, […]
The Isle of Rum in Scotland has a mysterious exterior. From the beach on the mainland that we camped near we kept looking for it over the sea. We could see the isle of Eigg, sometimes, but Rum just kept itself hidden behind a load of cloud. On the morning that we set off we […]
We love going to the capital city so here’s my top tips for a kids day out in London! We live about 150 miles from London and always used to feel incredibly jealous of our friends who lived closer and could take day trips in and take advantage of museums and educational days. One day I […]
It’s Independence Day in the USA today, a day when its citizens celebrate and think about their freedom and what it means to them. I’m actually rather ashamed that I never knew, until I was a young adult, anything about the war of independence and my own country’s role in that. How could I not […]
ALiverpool city break has been something I have wanted to do for some time now. I think I’d read about it on someone’s blog years ago and realised that far from just being somewhere with a world famous football team, there was actually something interesting to see there. I’d mentioned to James about maybe taking […]
Northumberland has many attractions from the tidal Holy Island of Lindisfarne, to castles featured in movies, to beaches and nature. We were so lucky with the weather for our Northumberland trip last week. Apart from the first day when we arrived which was very cold and grey we had wall to wall sunshine. Beaches and […]
