Family
Return to France
Penny was playing a napkin in her drama group’s production of Beauty and the Beast last weekend and so to us that seemed the perfect excuse to revisit our favourite French neighbours. France has so many lovely foods and activities it was the perfect way to spend a sunny weekend. Last time we visited we … Read more
Denmark
A friend of mine is working with a Danish company and she brought me back some liquorice from a trip to Copenhagen. Over a drink she told me all about the philosophy in Denmark of ‘hygge’ (sort of cosiness and comfort) and after a really stressful week for all of us it seemed liked the … Read more
The UK (London Edition)
OK OK… I know it’s cheating because we are actually in the UK, but having decided to visit London over half term we thought in the spirit of our blog, it would be fun to play at being tourists and to make sure we were as British as possible! In another blog post I tell you … Read more
Return to New Zealand
Penny asked if we could have another New Zealand day as it was one of her favourites (she’s a half Kiwi kid – of course it was!). We wanted to make sure this day was different from the last, so we made a number of changes. Windmill Farm This gorgeous farm has a petting zoo … Read more
Thailand
One of my friends is the Director of the stage version of ‘The King and I‘ which was on at the London Palladium and now has come to Manchester, where the Kiwi and I are finally getting to see it tonight! Inspired by this we decided to spend Saturday in Thailand. Breakfast Coconut pancakes seemed … Read more
Canada
I’ll admit that this visit has been largely motivated by my discovery of two amazing and independent cafes in Liverpool which sell some of my absolute favourite foods! These foods are a bit (a lot) fattening though, so we included some fun winter Canadian style sports to burn off the calories… As such, Canada was … Read more
Morocco
Last week, while on holiday in Spain, we took the children on a day trip to Morocco. It was brilliant fun, but we felt that we had only scraped the surface of this amazing place and so it seemed exactly the right adventure to go on from our home in Liverpool this weekend. Breakfast Research … Read more
