I’ve always had a soft spot for Paris. I lived there for eight months when I was eighteen, as part of my language requirement for my degree. When I lived there I had less than no money, my job came with accommodation and pocket money pay. I made my tiny…
We visited Gardaland when we stayed at Camping Bella Italia in 2019. (Read all about that trip here) There are a number of theme parks nearby, we chose to visit Gardaland. There’s tons to do for all ages in the park, just pick the right bits for your adrenalin appetite!…
In the summer of 2019 we finally visited Bella Italia in the Lake Garda area of Italy. I say finally as I’d been fascinated by Lake Garda and Bella Italia campsite for a few years, in part inspired by watching other bloggers’ holidays. I’d heard that it books up fast,…
I like to get in early with booking my holidays, I love to have something to look forward to. Last year we booked almost a year in advance, so as soon as we got home from Bella Italia this year (OK, full disclosure I may have googled from the deck…
We had seen many many signs for Fiesa Sandsculpting on both our trips to the Algarve and it looked impressive. So, on a very hot day in July 2018 we decided to go visit. It’s located near Lagoa, which is between the bigger towns of Albufeira and Portimao. We drove…
I recently (February 2019) spent two nights in Amsterdam with some friends on a girls’ weekend away. It was my first time in Amsterdam, and after a great weekend I am determined that it won’t be my last. A weekend isn’t enough to see everything but it’s plenty to take…
You’ll have read about all the activities we got up to on our Family City Break in London on previous posts, but here’s the practical information that made our trip work. How we got there We flew Ryanair to London Gatwick, with return flights for the 5 of us during…
It’s so long that I wrote the last post about our London Family City Break at Easter that I need to write a little refresher for you. We went to London, the five of us. On Day One of our adventures we went on the London Eye – read all…
We are not the type of people who sit still too much on holidays so last year when we went to the Algarve we hired a car and got around! We were based in Portimao/Praia da Rocha. Here are our top day trips from the Algarve (in no particular order). Sagres/Cape…
We’ve holidayed in Park Albatros in Coastal Tuscany twice now, in 2012 with two small boys and in 2015 with 3 kids under 7. Given the age of our kids we did a lot of day trips that involved eating ice creams in different places, and very few museums. We are…
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