Feeling slightly jet-lagged and weary after the 12-hour flight from London to Hong Kong, entering the streets of Mong Kok was an assault on the senses. It was Saturday night and the…
Back in August last year we booked a trip to Asia. It felt so far away at the time but now it is suddenly here! Of course, I feel woefully underprepared for it,…
I doubt Jane Austen would have imagined the novels she anonymously wrote in the late 18th and early 19th centuries would still be read and studied 200 years after her death. Like…
Ah Sri Lanka! It’s tropical beaches, lush green tea lands and ancient structures. It has something for everyone and in recent years, with the civil war at an end, has opened its…
Last week my City Tripping co-host Cathy, and I, announced a slight change to the City Tripping linky we have been running for over a year now…67 links and counting! Going forward, the…
Just outside north London in the Hertfordshire countryside lies a wonderful family farm which not only has animals, fairground rides, trampolines, sand and water play and climbing frames but it is also…
Italy and food. The two go hand in hand…like Romeo and Juliet, Venice and gondolas, the Romans and…Rome. You catch my drift. The country’s passion for simple homemade dishes using fresh ingredients…
Spring is springing with the flowers starting to emerge and the sun breaking out from the clouds. What better time to make some fresh changes? Top of the list is a mini…
Imagine your other half was so thoughtful they assisted your little ones to buy a truly unique gift for Mother’s Day. How much did you have to imagine? If it’s a lot,…
Three months into 2017 and my travel wishlist isn’t shaping up too badly. Last month it was the London Transport Museum and now we’ve ticked the Science Museum off our list. I’m not…
How we’ve never been to the Science Museum before is a mystery. In our 12 years of living in London it seems to have passed us by. No longer. With it firmly on my…
Until recently we hadn’t done a huge amount of road trips as a family. Now we’ve started, it appears we can’t stop. In one year alone we took three of them covering over…