Burma: Two days in Bagan with kids
There comes a point when my brain struggles to visualise large numbers – one is fine, two is no problem, but thousands? The little grey cells (to steal a phrase) confidently accept that’s *lots* but that’s as…
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Three days in Yangon with kids, Burma
I had a sudden insight into life as a celebrity’s assistant. From almost every corner of the Shwedagon pagoda in Yangon, Burma*, people were brandishing their cameras – not to capture the astonishing gold stupa at its…
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England | UK | Wanderlust
Family day out: Woburn Safari Park experiences
A dozen years ago, I got married at Woburn Abbey. As we trekked repeatedly up and down the M1 to Woburn to sort out the planning, my future husband and I kept saying we should take the…
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UK | Wales | Wanderlust
Hotel Review: Novotel Cardiff, Wales
Before last year, I would probably have thought of Novotel hotels as somewhere between business and budget – but there’s a distinctly family-friendly side to the chain. review stay/contains affiliate links* So when I headed to Cardiff…
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Burma travel lessons learned
Taking my three-year-old to Burma (Myanmar*) felt like the biggest travel challenge we’d tackled in a while. Our biggest family travel challenge of all, if I’m honest. After the early days of working out how to master…
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Bubblebum travel booster seat review
I spend ages agonising over (and being baffled by) the various car seats on offer in the UK – it took longer to choose our Group 1 car seat than almost any other piece of baby paraphernalia. And…
