If your children have fallen behind in their Downton Abbey lifestyle skills (terrible, really), a half-term stay at The Gleneagles Hotel should fix them right up, what-what. The five-star Scottish resort with its revered golf course doesn’t content itself with a kids’ club stuffed with the typical distractions. Instead, it introduces kids to the countrifiedContinue reading “Half-term idea for kids: learn polo in Scotland”
Category Archives: UK fun and days out
10 things not to do in London
Travel and writing about travel has been my passion since I was planning my first trip as a sentient being – one not concerned only with the playgrounds and whether there would be ice cream. (Funny enough though, now that I’m a parent, it’s come full circle.) But finding informed, fun-to-read travel advice, not to mention full-fledgedContinue reading “10 things not to do in London”
Giffords Circus: one of the best things you could do this summer
“You have to come, the kids will love it!” we cried to our friends J and B. “It’s back after a year off so you don’t want to miss it!” we said, grabbing them by the lapels. If the Ringling Bros Circus was billed as “the greatest show on earth” Giffords Circus claims the titleContinue reading “Giffords Circus: one of the best things you could do this summer”