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A winter trip to New York
Remember that time I went to New York? NOTABLE HIGHLIGHTS The bars in Brooklyn and East Village The revolving bar at the top of the Times Square Marriott for an interesting lift experience and a...
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Our California Adventure (Part 1) – The flight, La Jolla, and San Diego Zoo
Last year, we made this video, and were chosen to go on a once in a lifetime family trip to California. For a long time, it felt like something that was happening in the distant future. Until suddenly...
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Our California Adventure (Part 2) – Laguna Beach, Newport, and Whale Watching
This is the second instalment of our California trip, read Part 1 here. After three days, it was time to leave San Diego and head to Orange County, where our next hotel awaited. On the way there, we...
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Disneyland with young kids – The complete lowdown on our experience
Disneyland in Anaheim, California, is THE original Disney theme park, and the only one built under Walt Disney’s direct design and vision. Next door is Disney’s California Adventure, bringing to life...
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Our California Adventure (Part 3) – LA, Santa Monica, and back down to...
My last post saw us leaving Disney happy but exhausted, and we were now on our way to Santa Monica. On the way, we did our own little driving tour of LA – taking in the Hollywood sign, Beverley Hills,...
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A visit to Seaworld San Diego
Having visited Seaworld Orlando as a child and absolutely LOVED it, and then later in life having cried along with Blackfish, I had mixed feelings about our visit to Seaworld San Diego. I don’t think...
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Childcare on a Mark Warner holiday – Our experience of the kids clubs in Lemnos
We’ve just returned from a week of complete bliss with Mark Warner at the Lemnos Beach resort on Lemnos Island, Greece. In my head, I’m not back in dreary, wet London. I’m still on a Greek island with...
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Exploring Suffolk | A family holiday to Walberswick and Southwold
Remember that day it reached 36 degrees in London? The hottest July day on record? Well, we decided the best thing to do on a day like that was to get in the car and drive for three hours with two...
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Our holiday to Mark Warner Lemnos Beach Resort – Part One
The Mark Warner Lemnos Beach Resort is situated in a picture-perfect bay that sees the sun sink into the water in a breathtaking sunset every evening. It’s definitely one of those situations where the...
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Our holiday to Mark Warner Lemnos Beach Resort – Part Two
After chatting rooms, watersports and the food at the Mark Warner Lemnos Beach Resort in Post One, it’s now time to delve into the beach, the local town, and the debrief on what we thought of our...
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Butlins Skegness or Butlins Bognor Regis?
This past year, we have been working with Butlins as part of their ambassador program. Our ambassador role saw us visiting two of the three Butlins resorts, taking one term-time trip, and one school...
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Arlo’s fifth birthday | An Overnight Stay in London
After having a big party last year, we thought we’d have a more family-focused celebration this year for Arlo’s fifth birthday. It’s still very early in the beginning of the reception year,...
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A Cornwall Summer Holiday
The original plan was two weeks in Costa Brava. We’d researched the exact area we wanted to be in, found a villa, and had fingers literally hovering over the ‘book now’ button when Sam had a (very...
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Exploring Rye, Camber Sands, and Dungeness
Right at the end of summer, after my little moan that we hadn’t spent enough time together as a family, we took action. We decided to use the last couple of days of the summer holidays to do...
View ArticleAn impromptu trip to Devon and Bristol
Up until the week before, I was preparing for a low key half term week at home with the children. That was, until Sam came home announcing he’d booked some annual leave and an air bnb and suddenly we...
View ArticleButlins Bognor Regis – Our weekend of fun
A few weeks ago, we took a long weekend break to Butlins Bognor Regis. We’ve been to Butlins Bognor Regis a couple of times now, have also visited the Skegness resort once too, and in our pre-children...
View ArticleA mini-break to France – Lot et Garonne and Aquitaine
When our friends told us they were getting married in France, Sam and I needed little discussion to know we were in, straight away. Literally, I think by the next day we had our flights booked and a...
View ArticleMy top 14 moments of our trip to Disney World
The big question, “When is the right time to do Disney World?” has been nagging away in my head for a long time. Growing increasingly louder in the last year especially, as Arlo (6.5) and Rory (4) have...
View ArticleIs a last minute Disney World trip worth it?
Recently, we embarked on a very last minute trip to Disney World. When I say last minute, there were just two days between finding out we were going, and boarding our flight (You can read more info...
View ArticleWhy Disney’s Art of Animation is a great resort for young children | Art of...
On our recent trip to Disney World with our six, four, and one year old children, we stayed at the Art of Animation, one of Disney’s on-site resorts. The setup at Art of Animation worked really well...
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