Travel is all about discovering new places, new experiences and new adventures… or is it? Can travel be about returning to the same place again and again and discovering more nuances about a place? Years ago, I remember being very surprised when a friend was going back to the same holiday park in Devon for […]
Camping and Caravanning
My first time in a motorhome & impressions of the Rimor Katamarano 9
At the Camping and Caravan show this February, we’d been looking at all sorts of camping units to fit diverse camping styles- different sized tents, caravans, campervans, tiny caravans- everything except motorhomes. Motorhomes were not on our radar mostly for budgetary considerations and none would fit our family… or so we believed! Then we spotted one with writing […]
Podding along at Billing Aquadrome Northampton
If you’ve never camped in a tent, you might wonder what all the fuss is about when it comes to camping pods springing up at various campsites. Pods are the latest in the glamping craze – a static construction on site, which a family can stay in and access all the facilities the site has to […]
Campy goes on the ferry and ends up in Nieuwpoort, Belgium
It was a gorgeous sunny day and somehow, with 100s of miles ahead of us, we ended up with an unplanned stop at the beach. Having fiddled around with tyre pressure, mostly for reassurance, we missed our 6 am ferry by about 15 minutes. The majestic DFDS Seaways ferry was just finishing loading as we […]
10 Lessons Learnt Camping with Kids & Single Parenting
… or would the title be better as Mr Bean goes Camping? (I certainly felt like Mr Bean at times.) We popped home on the weekend to wash and do washing after our fabulous “a place called away” adventure at Aldridge Hill in the New Forest READ about our Aldridge Hill adventure I had it […]
3 great outings on the Gower with kids 2 to 7 years old
Having heard so much about how beautiful the Gower peninsula is, this week came the time to explore it for ourselves. Our short week in this beautiful part of Wales did not disappoint. Exploring it with my brood was great fun, perfect for bonding with little modern life distractions. I had no agenda for […]
Travel Budgetting: 10 tips to help your money take you further
We, like most families, have a limited budget and limited time but want still to travel a lot as a family of five. Here we discuss how I do our travel budgeting to travel an average 8 weeks a year with 3 kids. .We are travellers of the more independent variety, cost conscious, but we […]
A Postcard…with love: the New Forest, UK
My Dear, We’re having such a fabulous time with our friends in the New Forest at Aldridge Hill campsite. It’s hot and the kids are in the stream constantly; discovering all sorts of small and large critters, building dams, swimming, swinging, cycling. I totally understand why this site is referred to by the Camping […]
What? No toilets or showers? Camping at Aldridge Hill
What better (or more insane?) way to start our summer holidays of camping, than to pick a site with no facilities aside from drinking water and chemical toilet disposal point? And to top it, invite a friend with her 3 kids who is “not into camping” and loves her 1-2 showers a day. Two […]
The campsite with it’s own natural adventure playground, Haltwhistle
We arrived at Haltwhistle Camping and Caravan Club campsite at 11pm. That was about 13 hours too early for when we were actually booked to arrive. It’d been a stressful day, involving some last minute, unplanned shopping. And here we were in the darkness of night, 3 children sleeping in the back of the car. We were […]