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We love exploring, either close to home on an afternoon out, slightly further afield on a weekend away, or to a far flung destination picked because it happened to be on page 83 of the travel guide and we were asked to pick a number between 1 and 230.
Alton Towers Stargazing Pods This weekend, to mark “Look Up at the Sky Day” Alton Towers Resort’s opened their brand new Stargazing Pods for the summer season and we were invited to see them for ourselves. Sadly I couldn’t make it but Caity and Dan were all too happy to travel up to Derbyshire and try them out for us. How many Stargazing Pods are there at Alton Towers? There
Gringotts Wizarding Bank You would think that after visiting over a dozen times Ellie would be over visiting Warner Bros Studio Tour, but nope. Actually nothing could be further from the truth. And you might think that having been so many times there would be nothing new to see. Not so. Especially this year as Gringott’s Wizarding Bank opens in its biggest expansion. Lined by towering marble
Thinking of visiting Iceland? These are my top tips if you are visiting the east coast of Iceland anytime soon This is my second post detailing our stay in Iceland. Part one is here: West coast of Iceland, in and around Husafell and covers days one to three. Day four and we left Husafell with heavy hearts and headed to our next hotel, on the east coast of Iceland for
The first of our travel diaries from Iceland. This first one is of our first few days in Iceland when we were on the west coast, staying at Hotel Husafell. Lots of people have asked me where we stayed, the names of the places we saw, and generally what we got up to during our recent week in Iceland. So what better way than to post our diary! Trouble was
This is waffling but I have just been to an Elevate event and I am feeling a bit philosophical. You know I love a window, right? So much so that I did a whole load of blog posts called Window Wednesday because I wanted to share my love of windows. How they frame a picture beyond. Allow you to be drawn to them whilst in the room. Or just blow
Planning a couple’s holiday after the kids have left home THIS IS A COLLABORATIVE FEATURE It sort of crept up on us really. There was no big fanfare. No countdown. Nobody saying out loud “you do know that you can now go on holiday outside of term time, and in fact you can leave the kids behind, don’t you?”. But this is the situation we now find ourselves in.
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I have been travelling for almost my entire life, having gone on my first holiday (to Benidorm) when I was 18 months old. Since then I have been very lucky to get away most years, and even spent six years an an ex-pat flying back and forth a number of times a year. This means that I now see myself as a bit of a travel expert and thought
When I saw that Into The Glacier were based in Husafell, the same location as Hotel Husafell, our first hotel in Iceland I decided to book it for our first day. Generally we wanted our holiday to be governed by the weather and to not be looking at our watches every day but we decided to book this one trip as we were worried it might get booked up. Into
10 Reasons why you need to go to Iceland Having just got back from a week in Iceland, on what could quite possibly be the best holiday I have ever been on, I thought I would share my 10 reasons why you need to go to Iceland. Because you do. Flight Time From the UK it is only a three hour flight and there are flights from Gatwick, Heathrow, Stansted
Top tips for planning a multi-generational holiday This is an AD Feature We have done a few multi-generational holidays over the years so I thought it was about time I shared my top tips on how to plan them! The first one we did was with Mr B’s parents and mine, plus my kids, Caity’s then boyfriend (now husband) and my granny. A grand total of eleven of
Everyone seems to have just got back from Iceland recently, or are planning a trip to Iceland. Mr B and I currently fall into the latter group as we are planning a trip to Iceland next month, and so for the past few months I have been reading up on what to do / where to go / what we need. All of it useful info that I thought