Here is the first of a few holiday posts – very delayed but we’ve been too busy since we’ve got back to update the blog. We went to the fabulous Bewilderwood in the middle of our week away on the Broads.  It was absolutely fantastic, a giant adventure playground with zipwires, slides swings and climbing frames that [Continue]

I’ve recently been on a skiing trip to Italy with my Aunt.I went for a week and did skiing every day I had three hours lessons which was really good. By the end of the week I was going down quite steep red runs and going at speeds of up to 30MPH quite speedy considering [Continue]

Warning: Keep Glühwein out of reach of children (and their aunts) if you do not heed this warning, you may find this to be the result: [Continue]

We’ve just come back from Frankfurt (Germany) where we went to go and see the Christmas market! We got really cheap flights of 1p!!!! The market was amazing. There were all sorts of yummy foods! We went for the, a little bit of everything approach!! There was a very, very, very big Christmas tree in [Continue]

The higlight of our recent CBBC tour was probably before it even started properly. A real former TARDIS parked outside Television Centre! Actually the whole of our worthy “Let’s go to London to help the kids out with their Tudor’s project” trip seemed to turn into a Doctor Who tour. Canary Wharf (Torchwood), the Globe [Continue]

Well we are well and truly back from our holidays now. I was so sad to leave the Netherlands and all the wonderful cycling (not to mention pancakes) that I actually cried! We had a good time in London with friends afterwards. The highlight was going to the CBBC tour at Television Centre. Ruth was [Continue]

The Dutch let us down today. Junction with signs to Breda in three directions for cyclists – not too helpful… Oh well, that’s not bad, that’s the first gripe to date. We followed a 25km ish route today joined by Aunty Jane on a hired (child’s) bike. They have a system of numbered junctions marked [Continue]

Spent today in De Efteling, The Netherlands’ top theme park. Great fun, brilliant rides and short queues! All has a slightly surreal feeling, typified by the Goose Herding parade thingy…. [Continue]

The following few posts were written down while on holiday, so posted on block. Post dates correspond to time of original pen ‘n’ ink writing. After hours in the pouring rain on Sunday affixing bikes to the car, we actually got to cycle in the sun today! We’re on holiday in Oosterhout, just outside Breda [Continue]