Travel resolutions for 2016
Ah, the shiny first day of a new year – nothing like a blank slate to make plans for the next 365 days. As I explained last year, I don’t really make New Year’s resolutions these days –…
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Review: Verandah Resort & Spa, Antigua
Sometimes a hotel is just a place to lay your head at the end of a busy day exploring. But more and more, particularly with a young child, the choice of place to stay can make or break the…
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The Take 12 Trips challenge 2015
It was cutting it fine, frankly. But with three (count em) days left before the end of 2015, I’ve finally managed a brand new December day out with Minnie to tick off the last month of the…
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England | UK | Wanderlust
Revisiting the London Natural History Museum dinosaurs
Grey skies + Christmas planning hecticness + house moving stress (or house possibly moving stress) + three-year-old who grumps at going outside in the cold but melts down with cabin fever otherwise = a bit of a…
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England | UK | Wanderlust
Room on the Broom trail, Yorkshire – review
The witch had a cat and a very tall hat, and a succession of adventures and animal friends which make it perfect as one of the most recent Julia Donaldson-themed trails. There’s already been the Gruffalo and Superworm, not to…
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Book review: The Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen
Fairy tales are dark. I don’t even mean the original stories, I mean the child-friendly versions too. Death. Attempted murder. Evil magic. Unexpected vegetables in beds. Somehow, I seem to have forgotten that over the years – when we…
