In the year and a half that we have been pretend travelling I have realised just how many unique, exciting and independent dining options that there are in my home city of Liverpool. Almost every time I think of a place to visit, we find that there is a restaurant ready to serve us delicious … Read more
We had so enjoyed our pretend trips to Brazil and Argentina that we were keen to explore more of the continent of South America. Peru was an obvious choice – especially since the kids have been really into watching Paddington Bear lately and he is from Peru. Making Pionono Having successfully created Dulce de Leche … Read more
Our very first pretend visit was the USA and the photo below is the very first photo I took! I was bored of cooking and had decided to theme each day of the one week holiday to a different country and then cook the food of that country, or find a restaurant. We started with … Read more
In both our real world and our pretend travels we have always been in love with the Mediterranean Sea. Gentle, rolling and blue; it was the first sign of Europe that Mark saw from the plane window when he was 8 years old and the location of Homer’s ancient epic – the Odyssey, which is … Read more
Over the last year we have really appreciated the rich and varied culture of the incredible continent of Asia. We have pretended to visit Japan, China (twice), Thailand, India and Turkey and yet there is so much more to see! I would love to pretend to visit Nepal, South Korea, Vietnam and Israel and Jordan, … Read more
To cheer ourselves up in lockdown, having had to cancel our trip to Disney World, we decided to recreate our favourite moments from the last trip we took as a family and to cheer up my quarantined parents too. Now we actually did these three events over three separate weekends – you could do them … Read more
It was Chinese New Year last week and I had heard amazing things about the celebration on Liverpool which has the oldest China Town in Europe. So a pretend visit was most definitely in order! If you want to read about the first pretend visit we made to China you can find it here. Getting … Read more
The USA was the first pretend visit that we even did and so it had been a long time since we had ‘been there’! Yet it remained one of Penny’s favourite pretend destinations and she was very keen to go back. I’ll be honest – we are obviously surrounded by American culture in the UK … Read more
