Family Travel
Reviews and tips for Family travel as a large family.
The holidays may be winding down at your house, but why not have one more bash? Celebrating the Chinese New Year is a great way to brighten up the dreary mid-winter months and an excellent opportunity to introduce the kids to a little culture. The festivities are always a blast, as they’re filled with colourful animal and dragon costumes, delicious food and intriguing music. Take the whole family out to one of Dorset’s many pubs or community centres that are celebrating the year of the rooster, or stay in and enjoy some ethnic crafts and Chinese munchies in the comfort…
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January is all about planning and looking ahead at what the year will bring us. What do I want 2017 to bring me? Fun time with my family is always top of the list and this year I want us to take our first trip abroad all together. I’ve been abroad with Maisy and Bella before Lottie was born but little Lottie has never been on a plane! For two reasons; first being as a single parent the thought of me and three children in another country is quite scary. Secondly is the cost, it is so expensive to travel…
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This weekend we pulled on our welly boots and headed over to Corfe Castle for our next National Trust adventure we needed to burn off some of that never ending energy my girls seem to have and Corfe Castle won their vote. I used to visit Corfe every year as a little girl, my grandparents always rented a cottage for a few weeks and it was lovely but I hadn’t been back for years and had yet to take the girls. From the car park there is a 10 minute walk to get up the the castle itself it’s a nice little…
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The girls and I headed off to visit Longleat last week to experience the Festival of Lights for the first time! I had heard such great things about the event which runs throughout December we couldn’t wait to get down there. We’ve been to Longleat once before, it was when they were in the process of setting it all up since seeing that I have always been intrigued to go back and see it finished. I knew it was going to be pretty busy as tickets were sold out for the day, it was advised to leave extra time for…
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Even by just thinking back to the weekend of pampering I’ve had at Carey’s Manor I instantly relax a little, I love a good spa day and their SenSpa is 100% up there with the best I have been in – ever. Careys Manor Hotel is situated in the beautiful New Forest countryside, the SenSpa is an authentic Thai spa which boasts 5 star facilities focusing on holistic wellness. Upon arrival we were greeted by friendly staff who offered us drinks and talked us through what our stay would entail, they were very accommodating changing our previously booked lunch reservation for a…
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It feels like an absolute age ago but was in fact only two weeks back that the girls and I took a trip to our favourite Cornish town St.Ives to enjoy our half term break. You may remember back in the summer we visited St.Ives and all hell broke loose as chicken pox reared it’s ugly head and ruined our little family break. Tregenna Castle came to our rescue and invited us back to do our trip right this time and I am so happy they did! We were staying in one Tregenna’s self catering cottages this time around rather than the…
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If you follow me on social media you may have spotted the girls and I went off on a little adventure last week to Cornwall. We were invited back to Tregenna Castle to stay for a few days and enjoy all that the beautiful St.Ives coast has to offer. We stayed at Tregenna Castle back in July and after one lovely day chicken pox struck my girls and needless to say the trip was kinda ruined as we headed home early, spotty and shattered. Thankfully this time we had no such dramas just a fun few days me and my…
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