Faro Family Fun

Going away on a multi family multi child trip… here’s something new. I remember these holidays as a kid and loved them, but don’t really remember how my parents were. Now that getting a night out with friends is a …

Eating & Beaching Cornwall’s Northern Coast

We loved our trip to Cornwall last year, but having split time between St. Ives and Padstow last year, and some dubious weather, meant we didn’t get to see as much of Padstow as we’d have liked. It’s an excellent …

Sunny Sani Beach, Greece

With number two arriving in August, so being on UK lockdown during the summer, we looked to sneak is come late summer sun at a kid friendly place that we could take the expanded family to. If you google these …

Croatia’s Dalmatian Coast (mostly)

Leaving Lake Bled in Slovenia we drove south-west (about 3 hours) to the coast to the historic town of Rovinj, in Croatia. There are a lot of beautiful smaller, lesser known coastal towns in the north of Croatia that are …

Lake Bled & Ljubljana, Slovenia

Last year we finally got round to exploring Croatia, where the secret seems to be well and truly out, but during our research Slovenia kept getting mentioned. After doing some digging we decided it looked worth an extra week and …

Escaping London: Hiking the Cotswolds

With a wedding in Oxford on the horizon and some interior walls about to be knocked down at home, we decided we had to get out of town for a week in August, but late planning and the school summer …

Lake Como Wedding

Don’t you love it when friends organise weddings in places you’ve always wanted to go – what a perfect excuse for a holiday – so when we got a save the date for July in Lake Como we were pumped …

Cornish Adventures: Padstow & Rock

After St. Ives we spent a weekend in Padstow, often referred to as Padstein due to the abundance of Rick Stein restaurants in town. We sampled a lot of great food and drink whilst in town and also explored Rock, …

Cornish Adventures: St. Ives to Lands End

Having never been further south or west than Devon we planned a week exploring Cornwall; probably the quaintest part of Britain (apart from the Cotswolds).  We AirBnB’d a cosy, but practical, one bed flat in St. Ives harbour with sea …

An Amsterdam city break for grown ups

Read that title as “Amsterdam for people with kids who can’t go out in the evening anymore, but still want to go to fun places on bank holiday weekends”.  High on the to-do list, with beautiful architecture and scenery, plus …