An Easter trip to Northumberland
We spent our Easter weekend in a lovely cottage in Newbiggin-by-the-Sea which was right next to the ocean. We travelled down on Thursday and arrived in the evening. We went for an explore of the little seaside town and later Mummy and Sophie bee had their first swims...
London Adventures
For Sophie Bee's birthday she got tickets to go and see Matilda the musical in London, this meant it was time for another adventure. We drove down to Watford on a Monday afternoon so that we could get a shorter train journey into London. Once there we had a lovely...
1st Adventure of 2022 – Delamere Forest
A cosy wooden cabin in the woods (with a hot tub) is there any better way to start a new year. Staying at Delamere Forest was amazing. Once we entered the woods on Monday 3rd we didn't leave, there was so much to do and explore. We went on walks, relaxed in the hot...
The Derwent Valley Heritage Way…Week One
The Derwent Valley Heritage away is a 55 mile footpath following the River Derwent from Lady Bower Reservoir in North Derbyshire to the mouth of the river at Shardlow; an inland port where there is a triple confluence of the Trent and Mersey Canal with the Rivers...
A Post Lockdown Break
Back in March 2020, the UK went into lockdown, and for us, our travel plans were cancelled as we were effective 'grounded' - with much disappointment we had to cancel both our trip to Europe planned for April and our camping trip to Wales in May. As a family that...
Disneyland Paris February 2020 Part 1
Despite Storm Dennis, we headed to Disneyland Paris in February 2020. This wasn't our first visit but it was the first time we have stayed at the Disney Resort, and whilst we had a fantastic time, this was definitely quite a different holiday to our previous visits...
Lake Kaniere and Dorothy Falls
One thing we didn't do back in 2007 was explore Hokitika Gorge and we were keen to visit it this time around! However after waking up and swopping over our campervan the heavens opened and rain set in for the day. After a chat with Kevin (at Links View Holiday Park)....
Hokitika
With a slight nervousness, we set off north towards Hokitika, stopping briefly at Franz Josef for supplies and to post letters home. As we drove on the twisting and turning New Zealand roads, yet again we had campervan problems, so we decided we would stop at the...
West Coast to Fox Glacier
After our campervan problems of the day before, we decided we would drive cautiously today up towards Fox Glacier and once we had a phone signal we'd contact the rental company. Just to put it into perspective this is the route we drove, with a campervan that was...
Cromwell to Wanaka and beyond
Having arrived back in Cromwell too late to experience the Otago wines after our day in Queenstown, we were talking to the staff in the Top 10 Campsite office and discovered that there was a vineyard a few minutes away that opened for tasting at 10am so we decided we...