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 […]
Category Archives: Destinations
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! […]
We had wanted to spend a couple of days in Holland, but J’s eye problems meant that we spent an extra night in Germany and had to strip a day from our Holland idea. We did manage to spend one night there, in Gouda, which was really nice especially as I’d never been to Holland […]
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 […]
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 […]
