Hips, trips, training and getting kids outside!
My Mother’s Day treat was a walk in the Yorkshire Dales, from Kettlewell to Arncliffe. We’ve done this walk and variations before, without the kids, starting from the Arncliffe, and a similar walk in the area with a big group of friends. We spent the previous weekend at the Outdoor Expo at the NEC Birmingham,…
A late January mid-week birthday, meant that I got to choose what we did at the closest weekend. Stump Cross caverns has been on my list of ‘to visit’ since I saw their campaign to keep the caves open and then keep them lit. These are ancient caves under the Yorkshire Dales, discovered in 1860!…
After a recent week spent staying near Whitby, here are 7 things not to miss if you’re in the area. Whitby Abbey You can’t visit Whitby and not have a glimpse of the Abbey. We’ve never actually been inside but this time bought a family ticket. There was a Viking event on the weekend we…
We’ve just come back from a long weekend in Alnwick, Northumberland. We’ve been wanting to go back since taking the kids nearly ten years ago. With its glorious coastline, abundance of castles and pretty villages there really is something for everyone. Which will explain why, along with obvious global reasons, it was so difficult to…
In the beautiful surroundings of the Yorkshire Dales is the village of Bolton Abbey, where the Catgill Farm’s camping and glamping site can be found. Just an hour away from where we live, we are regular visitors to the Bolton Abbey area and it’s somewhere I’ve visited since I was little. I’ve been following Catgill…
A half term pumpkin party sounded like just the thing to start off the holidays. I’ve been promising to take the kids to William’s Den for years. So long in fact I thought my eldest might be too old for it. Just under an hour away from Bradford, William’s Den is located at North Cave,…
How do Speed boats, horse riding and jeeps sound? We recently spent a week in Holguin Cuba over Christmas. It wasn’t all lazing by the pool, Margarita, in hand though. I find that ‘R’ word, really hard to do, what is it again? Oh yeah, relax!! With the opportunity to go out explore and have…
We’ve been promising the kids a visit to London for ages, so with a bank holiday it was a great opportunity for us to go down on the train. It’s just over three hours for us so we bought activity packs for the kids and they were happy to read their books and look out…