Some of my absolute favourite pretend travel over the years has been to Eastern Europe. Poland, Romania and Russia have shown themselves to be fun of joy and culture and warmth. Below is a run down of some of our favourite activities and how you can recreate them at home! Crafts There is nothing we … Read more
The Japanese 7-5-3 (shichi go san) Festival We love exploring the world and we love festivals and celebrations so we thought we would combine the two and find celebrations from all over the world to celebrate with our children. Now, before I talk about our fun day exploring Japanese Shichi Go San (7-5-3) festival I … Read more
Freddie loves dressing up and he most loves to dress up as a vampire. I’ve always loved vampires too – I read Bram Stokers Dracula at Uni and was even in the Dracula Spectacular at school. So, I knew that the legend of Dracula came from the real life historical character of Vlad the Impaler … Read more
Portugal is on the UKs green list. Despite that we won’t be travelling to Portugal any time soon so instead we decided to pretend to travel to Portugal using the theme to enjoy the weekend with the kids! We had a wonderful day of custard tarts, mini golf, football, cork creations and salted cod. Now … Read more
Pretend trips exploring Oceania including Christmas in June, and visits to Samoa, New Zealand and Australia. Pretty much the first thing I did when both the kids were born was apply for New Zealand citizenship for them as Mark is New Zealand born and bred. So, very early on in our pretend travels we went … Read more
As a part of our pretend travel days we have explored many places, including exploring Africa by pretending to travel to Kenya, Egypt, Morocco and Nigeria. Africa has turned out to be the most beautiful and diverse of places and has been a joy to discover. I know there are so many more countries for … Read more
Although we often plan pretend travel days for our kids we love real days out too. And one of our favourite places to visit is London. I lived in London as an adult for 15 years before moving to the North West and so I like to think I know it well – though with … Read more
The truth is that this day has been inspired by an incredible Nepalese restaurant just down the road from us called Da Mount Gurkha! I was beyond excited to taste their locally famous food but as I started to research Nepal – a whole incredible day took shape. So here is how to pretend to … Read more
I can’t remember a time when I didn’t know about the Lake District, living as I do in the North West. From childhood adventures to school trips, it was one of the first places I took Mark to when we came up to visit my parents and we were living in London. But never has … Read more
I’ve never been to Vietnam and, being a history teacher, much of what I know is seeped in tragedy or horror. But friends who have been there insisted to me that this is not the Vietnam that they have seen and I had a natural desire to explore the real place, beyond the images I’ve … Read more