Our final stop on our Italian adventure, after Bologna and Florence, was the beautiful floating city of Venice. I don’t think anything can prepare you for the sensory overload of seeing Venice for the first time. For the first couple of hours of being in the city, we wandered around in a trance. I mean I know it’s famously…
Child-Friendly Italy: Bologna, Florence, Lucca and Venice by rail. Part 2 – Florence and Lucca
Florence was the next stop on our Italian adventure. Read Part 1 here. Famously beautiful, its compact city centre is a World Heritage Site and very simple to navigate on foot, making it easy to walk around with children. Many of the main attractions sit either side of the River Arno and are located around the Ponte Vecchio; a medieval…
Child-Friendly UK: Museums, Markets and Messing about on the river in Oxford
I do love a day out in Oxford. Just being there makes you feel clever. It has museums to rival London and its compact city centre means it is much easier to get around and see the sights. In the sprit of this, the University of Oxford have given an absolute gift to parents in…
Child-Friendly Italy: Bologna, Florence, Lucca and Venice by rail. Part 1 – Bologna.
The Italian cities are perhaps not the first places you think of when planning a summer holiday for your family; they’re hot, there’s *some* walking required and most children generally have minimal to zero interest in looking at the great art works of the Renaissance. But sometimes, you have to take a leap of faith….
Child-Friendly UK: The only guide you’ll ever need to holidaying in North Norfolk with kids.
Driving along the coastal road in North Norfolk, you’d be forgiven for thinking you might just be somewhere else. The sea glittering in the early evening sun making silhouettes of the paddle boarders and kite-surfers, towering pines stretching along the soft sands of Wells beach and the raging sea roaring at the wild beach at Holkham…