We were recently invited to preview some of the spooky attractions at Chessington World of Adventures for “Howl’o’ween” 2017. This year Chessington has a variety of different Halloween attractions on offer including Creepy Caves Unearthed, billed as their scariest attraction yet. Creepy Caves Unearthed is recommended for adventurers aged 10 and over so my girls… Read More
Getting National Trust membership a couple of years ago was one of the best decisions we’ve made. There are so many lovely places to visit around the country and it’s always a good choice for a day out exploring with my family. I visited Baddesley Clinton with the girls last year and loved it. Packwood… Read More
Trentham Gardens has been on my list of places to visit for a while now. The nearby “moon” (Premier Inn) is one of our favourite places to stay when heading up north. However, despite staying so close by so many times, we’d never actually visited Trentham Gardens until we finally made the trip there at… Read More
Hubby and I both love canals. Before we had children, we went on a couple of narrowboat holidays together as well as a road trip around the country to see ‘the seven wonders of the waterways’ Our first narrowboat holiday together was on the Warwickshire ring route which took us through Hatton Locks, a flight… Read More
I often use the “Where Can We Go” app on my phone to find local events and places to visit. We’ve been to a couple of places as a result of using it that we probably wouldn’t have otherwise visited. Bagot’s Castle was one of those places. We were staying in the nearby area over… Read More
One of the things I love about National Trust membership is having so many different places to explore. If we’re travelling, I now look to see if we can break up the journey with a visit to a National Trust property. It’s much more fun than stopping off at a motorway services. It’s also a… Read More
Driving around the Devil’s Punchbowl was always a familiar part of my journey to and from visiting my family after I moved to London on finishing university. It might have been the slowest point of the journey but it was certainly the most picturesque. The need to focus on the road meant I could never… Read More