Scafell Pike dramatic hike – with kids
Scafell Pike hike - the tallest mountain, the clearest waters and the steepest roads in all the land. Featuring a rising river.
Family holidays UK
Family holidays UK. Travel tales from hiking the tallest mountains, boating in stormy seas and walking amongst dinosaur bones and glow in the dark diamonds in London. Comedy adventures staying in haunted hotels, Harry Potter stately homes and former lifeboat stations. Anecdotes, realism and a bit of fun.
Snowdon hike – dramatic scenes with the kids
Family Snowdon hike up the Pyg Track and down the Miners in - 6 degrees, with supporting roles from fog, tarns,and Snickers. And a surprise trip down memory lane.
Christmas in one of the most haunted hotels UK, anyone?
Christmas or Hallowe'en? Tricky to tell the difference this Boxing Day hunting for the half man and hooded monk in Madeley in Britain's most haunted hotel. Did we sleep? Would you?
Day out in Liverpool, 4 essential activities – featuring a Ferry cross the Mersey
Ferry cross the Mersey, past the half cormorant/half eagle Liver Birds and selfies on the psychedelic Tate floors- a rainy November day out in Liverpool.
5 London with kids activities – Hamilton and the House of Commons
A varied few days in London with kids doing the Lambeth walk, meeting John Bercow and his mace, visiting an Easter Island Head, being startled by a very Hallowe’eny organ blast in St Paul's and witnessing the founding of America and the Holocaust.
Croyde Bay – Storm and a Teacup
Weather warnings, flooding, power cuts, 2 lifeguard rescues – perfect conditions for a half term beach holiday in Croyde Bay
St Ives beaches, surfing and a surprise
How do you fit a party of 20 into tiny St Ives? Answer, split them up into chocolate box fisherman's cottages. Then check out the fab St Ives beaches, walk hippogriff -haughty llamas over the Cornish hills, feed an alpaca army, bob around in a boat surrounded by seals and take a wind blasting at the cliff top open air Minack Theatre.
Going Old School in Slapton Sands
Where can you fit up to 40 people in a small Devon town for the weekend? Answer: an old school house in Slapton complete with school field, taxidermy, a papier mache shark and a swarm of daddy longlegs.
Devon holidays – featuring wild Dartmoor ponies and prisons
Dartmoor - wild ponies, miniature ponies (sometimes masquerading as unicorns), woodland water flumes, rock climbing and prison. More than just a moor.
Gypsy caravan in the Wye Valley
How to fit 4 into a turn of the Century Showman's gypsy caravan in the Wye using fairylights for an August Bank Holiday weekend.