As mums we do not often do crazy things. But once in a while we should take a couple of days off parental duty and head to a place where we can switch off completely. Well, as crazy as it sounds, New York City is probably the coolest city for women to have fun with girlfriends (without partners or kids). As you may remember, I won a three-day trip to New York last December with Netflix Stream Team…
If you feel adventurous during a half term / school holiday you can take the kids on a roadtrip to France. Without much planning we decided to go skiing and sledding for a couple of days on the Mont Blanc on the French side with a few stops along the way. It’s 1000 km one way and you can get there in 15 hours with no stops.
However with young children (Diego is 8) this is unthinkable and a…
October half term is never been more fun than this year as we spent it on the Egyptian resort of Stella Gardens at Makadi Bay in Hurghada right on the Red Sea.
The resort and the reef
Stella Gardens is a very new and modern resort which is just 40 minutes drive from Hurghada airport (served daily by Easyjet). The flight lasts 5 hours and 20 minutes but when you leave cold and wet London…
They’re five words that every parent dreads hearing; a plaintive cry from the back seat of a car or camper van that means just one thing. The rest of this journey, no matter how long, is not going to be fun.
“Are we nearly there yet?”
Parkdean, the family holiday parks operator with 24 sites around the UK, recently conducted a survey of 1,478 parents to find out just how often they hear…
I have chosen Sardinia (Orgosolo in particular) to start my narrative journey into my origin country hoping you will love it as much as I do. In a series of travel features I will tell you everything I love about Italy above and beyond the negative aspects that might put a shadow into a fascinating culture. And I will also uncover lots of things that might not be on the typical tourists’…
Poole’s official motto is Surf, Rest and Play. Whether this resonates with you or not, Poole is a great destination for families with kids of any age. The official tourism office calls Poole the Coast with the Most.
For families based in London, Poole is the ideal weekend getaway not just during a hot Summer but also in Winter and here is why.
Here I am with Diego cruising Poole Harbour
A…
Let’s just park the myth that Essex is all like TOWIE.
Recently the county has unfortunately been pigeonholed as offering little more than tanning salons, nail bars and nightclubs – but there is so much more to it than that, and the summer holidays is an ideal time to come and explore.
Audley End House and Gardens
Visit Essex has helpfully put together a list of the hottest days…
Fancy spending time afloat this summer? Thought so. Your timing is spot-on. Sales of super-yachts to British buyers have jumped this year, and demand for chartering boats in the South of France and Caribbean is also booming. A week might cost you GBP 250,000 for a top-of-the-range craft sleeping 12, but you are guaranteed to be rubbing shoulders with celebrity aficionados like Lewis Hamilton and…
France is the world’s most visited country; its capital a tourist magnet. How is a truly Parisian experience possible at the height of the holiday season?
Try the Canal St Martin, which bisects the 10th and 19th arrondissements in north-east Paris. It is a part of the city overlooked by mainstream visitors, and by other Parisians, lending it a raffish, slightly undeveloped air. Still very…
It’s fair to say that when you’re expecting a new addition to the family your overriding concern is making sure that you’re fully prepared for the life-changing arrival of the little guy or gal. With nine months to prepare what could you possibly miss? We recently polled a group of parents and they agreed that one of the key things they neglected to consider was how the arrival of their…