8 weird and wonderful things to do in Oxford with kids
Looking for fantastic beasts, Roman mummies, Harry Potter film sets and Egyptian curses – why not give Oxford a whirl?
Travel Tales
27 Unique Ideas for Bucket Lists – alphabet around the world S-V
Looking for ideas for bucket lists? Can I invite you to head into the dreamlike whipped cream architecture of Barcelona or wander amongst golden palaces in Bangkok? You could perhaps stop for breakfast cooked on an active Balinese volcano before heading into skies over Vancouver in a sea plane? Can I tempt you to join the world’s biggest water or tomato throwing fight? Let me help you dream up your own ultimate bucket list.
60 fun things to do in London with teens
With democracy, roof gardens, theatre and vintage shopping, stars of stage and screen and fragments of actual stars in the museums – London is a treasure trove of teenage fun.
Wales Road Trip – 7 quirky stops
A Wales road trip has a few secret rabbits under it’s hat. Yes, there are mountains, castles and sheep, but there are also Italianate villages, Victoriana sweetshops and sweeping surfing beaches.
11 unique things to do in Belfast with teenagers
From standing on the virtual hull of the world’s most famous sunken ship to hanging out in prisons and opulent Victorian gin palaces, Belfast has a unique combination of activities to capture your teen’s attention. Not to mention handling rubber bullets, signing peace walls and learning to fly.
Essential guide to a Road Trip Northern Ireland with kids
Craggy coasts, ruined castles and dark hedges await on your road trip Northern Ireland. Check out my essential guide so you don’t miss the surprising Caribbean waters and luxury spa resorts on the way.
6 outdoor activity ideas for a bucket list – alphabet around the world 3
6 fun outdoor activity ideas for your bucket list – from helicopter glacier hikes to sleeping under the stars in the Outback, live life to the max while there’s still time.
London for kids in 2021 – 23 essential insider tips
With sparkling Lidos, parakeets in the parks and Olympic slides, London with kids is always brilliant. And the good news is it can totally be done on a budget in Covid, even in the rain. It is harder to plan than usual and you need back-ups at your finger tips Here are my top tips for how to navigate setting up an itinerary with a few lessons learned along the way.
Top 10 Best Sun Holiday Parks in South West England
The best holiday parks we have found in our decade of travels around the Sun holiday parks in South West England. This is my essential guide to the ultimate on-site activities, on-your-doorstep beach access, adventurous local attractions and favourite towns.
Essential guide for booking Caravan Holidays UK
An essential guide for what to look for in a site and a caravan, how to bag one on a budget and booking lessons learned. 2021 brings you palm trees and cocktail bars by the sea. Staycations can look more tropical than you’d imagine!
One day canal boat hire – tips on how not to sink
Ever fancied a one day canal boat hire? Here are some top tips on how not to sink one, avoiding random pivots and navigating sneaky lock sills. Life in the slow lane (with forays into the fast.)
6 unique and affordable bucket list ideas from around the world
Experience all this planet has to offer with this series of affordable bucket list ideas. From watching lightning over the Grand Canyon to seeing living goddesses in Kathmandu – inspiration for secrets worth seeking out.
10 free activities for your 3 day London itinerary with kids
How much can you pack into a London itinerary with kids without finishing them off? Quite a bit it turns out! We managed sitting glass floor at Tower Bridge, balancing lorikeets on your head and seeing Queen Victoria’s actual crown.
12 fun things to do in Bristol with kids in Lockdown
Looking for top things to do in Bristol with kids in Lockdown? Can I suggest sliding over slippy rocks, giant head hunting, sledging down ski slopes and climbing over monkeys?
A-Z of affordable bucket list destinations – alphabet around the world (part 1)
Everyone has a bucket list destinations dream, but how are you going to get there before the bucket gets kicked? Travel inspiration and tips for making your dreams come true.
20 gift ideas for campers
Wondering what to buy someone who loves travel but can’t at the moment? Here are some gift ideas for campers and travellers that they can look forward to using next summer.
After a lifetime of camping, these are our most treasured finds that we no longer travel without – our essential non-essentials.
40 top tips for Veneto and Venice with kids – water and fire
Join us on our adventure to Venice with kids – flamingos, beach clubs, Murano glass tigers and chocolate box Burano houses. Marvel at the fabulously elaborate architecture and walk amongst Roman horses on the terrace of St Marks Basilica itself.
27 top tips for Legoland and Windsor with kids
Travel in time from the Stone Age at the Henge, through the Norman Conquest at Windsor Castle and into the laser shooting Ninjago Lego-ride future by way of castles real and fantastic.
Tuscany with kids – 5 great ideas for days out
Tuscany with kids – land of Narnia-like statues, buildings saved from destruction by their own beauty, comedically leaning towers, modern Roman Gladiators and pizza n ice cream for tea.
Jamaica photography – the 6 best bits
Land of crocodiles, rum, dolphin and crime. Capturing the best bits with Jamaica photography.
Morocco photography
Capturing the crazy colours of Kasbah with its waist coated monkeys, uninvited snake necklaces and abandoned donkey hooves. Snaps of sunflower festooned rafts, waterfalls in the Atlas mountains and camel caravans.
7 top tips Morocco with kids – rockin’ the Kasbah
Becoming lost in time and space in the crazy Kasbah with its waist coated monkeys, uninvited snake necklaces and abandoned donkey hooves. Embark on sunflower festooned rafts to the foot of waterfalls in the Atlas mountains and join a camel caravan, disguised as a Bedouin..
Portugal holidays in pictures
The best and brightest photos from Portugal furnace hot beaches, eat-you-up waves, unexpected medieval camels and castles in the sky.
10 top tips for Jamaica with kids – a Caribbean adventure
Land of crocodiles, rum, dolphin and crime. 10 tips on how stay in Jamaica with kids all inclusive and have an adventure at the same time.
Top 10 epic travel fails – so bad it’s good
Travel tribulations and unanticipated holiday stories, from face attacking fish to enraged bulls and unexpected water snakes. Sometimes it’s so bad its good.
25 Budget travel UK top tips
Using these budget travel top tips I have found free flights to Jamaica, 2-centre holidays for the price of 1, free entry to Legoland, the Tower of London, Matilda the musical and can get 3 of us from Bristol to London by train for £19. You may already know all this but, if not, here’s how.
10 things to do in Dubai with kids
Flowers, water and snow in the desert – there are more things to do in Dubai with kids than you may think. check out these top 10 activities from a local expert.
St Ives Gallery
St Ives gallery – favourite photos of the many fabulous beaches fronting St Ives: Porthmeor, Porth Gwidden, Porthminster and Harbour Beach (and I’ve thrown in Porthcurno, which is a drive away but too beautiful not to).
Edgy Scafell Pike hike with kids – 10 top tips
Scafell Pike hike – the tallest mountain, the clearest waters and the steepest roads in all the land. Featuring a rising river.
Top 10 YHAs – the Best in Britain
From Grade 1 listed 800 year old castles to former life boat stations – try something a bit different with a YHA.
11 top tips for Portugal with kids – Lagos to Lisbon
Portugal with kids – Lagos to Lisbon; furnace hot beaches with icy eat-you-up waves, adventure canoeing, unexpected medieval camels and castles in the sky.
Top 10 large group accommodation UK holidays
A lifetime compendium of the best large group accommodation UK we have found with UK friends and family. From Abbot’s Manors, to Old Schools, yurts and farmhouses.
11 top tips for a 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.
Roadtrip USA – Vegas or/and bust!
Having a wedding anniversary to celebrate – it has been deemed necessary to revisit the scene of the crime (a Vegas wedding chapel) 20 years on, in 2020. Destiny is calling. Throw in NYC and a 2 week roadtrip USA, for a trip to end all trips – this time with the kids.
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.
Top 10 Best non touristy things to do in NYC
Looking for the best non touristy things to do in NYC? Then look no further than these top tips for cheaper and less crowded New York City alternatives from a real New Yorker. For a local expert guide to NYC’s best bagels, rooftop bars, skyline views, beaches, delis and diners with singing waiters, read on…
10 best beaches in UK
Discover the best beaches in UK – aquatic sea tractors, causeways, cliff stairs to open air theatres and dunes too big to play hide and seek in.
Top 10 great things to do in Parksville
Beach boardwalks, crystal lakes, horse riding with bears, local markets and summer fairs. Some of the top 10 things to do in Parksville.
Best Canada pictures
The most arresting photos of Canadian glacial hikes, icy rivers and turquoise lakes from our family Canadian road trip adventure with (bear) bells on.
33 top tips for a family Canada Road Trip – via Big Foot, the Rockies and Vancouver Island
Horse riding with bears, glacial hikes and Elk salami cocktails drunk under Bison heads in a Canada road trip with (bear) bells on.
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 Holidays – A Storm and a Teacup
Weather warnings, flooding, power cuts, 2 lifeguard rescues – perfect conditions for a half term Croyde Bay holidays weekend
Photos for sale at Adobe
The ultimate collections from my galleries of photos for sale and download from my world travels.
15 fun things to do on a St Ives holiday – surfing, seal boats and a surprise llama
How do you organise a group St Ives holiday? Answer, split them up into chocolate box fisherman’s cottages. Then check out the fabulous St Ives beaches, walk llamas over the Cornish hills, feed an alpaca army, bob about on a seal boat and catch a show at the cliff top open air Minack Theatre.
Family trip to Europe itinerary: Fair(s and) Cities -Paris, Disney, Brussels, Duinrell and Amsterdam
Disneyland in a day, Paris for breakfast, Brussels for lunch and then Holland for tea.
Found fire breathing Disney dragons, drank wasps by the Seine, dined under centuries old gold leather wallpaper and Rembrandts in Amsterdam before being drenched by surely the world’s wettest spectator log flume in Duinrell in the Dutch woods in this 10 day family funfair roadtrip.
Top 10 YHAs -best in Britain
From Grade 1 listed 800 year old castles to former life boat stations – try something a bit different with a YHA.
Things to do in South Devon – Going Old School in Slapton Sands
What can you do in a large group in South Devon for the weekend? Answer: stay an old school house in Slapton complete with school field, taxidermy, a papier mache shark and a swarm of daddy longlegs.
17 top tips for Dartmoor with kids – wild and miniature ponies
Dartmoor with kids- 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.