This is the second time I’ve visited Warwick Castle, but the first time since becoming a parent. I used to live in Warwick and I would have probably visited more often but for the ticket price being so expensive compared with most other castles. Unlike many other castles that are managed by English Heritage, Warwick […]

During our camping trip to Keswick in the Lake District we went to the Keswick Launch to have a boat ride on Derwent Water. We didn’t really know what we were going to do when we arrived so we parked in the car park and went to the side of the lake to see what […]

We started our journey on the Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway from Dalegarth Station near Boot. The first challenge is in getting to the station which is towards the west of the Lake District. Coming from Keswick the route is quite reasonable, but if you are travelling to or from the central Lake District the most […]

I have visited the Sealife Centre in Birmingham before, but it was several years ago and there have been quite a few changes since I last visited. We visited during a wet weekend looking for a day out that was out of the rain. Parking at the National Indoor Arena (NIA) car park Parking at […]

We went to the Midland Railway Butterley during a special event weekend with a car rally, narrow gauge railway, garden railway and modellers event. We hadn’t planned to visit on a special weekend, but looking at the timetable there are lots of events during the year so the chances of landing on one is pretty […]

We stayed at the John Fowler Ilfracombe Holiday park at the beginning of the school holidays in Easter 2011. There are three parks at Ilfracombe, but they are almost directly adjacent to each other and share the same facilities (including reception I believe). The sites are known as Ilfracombe Holiday Park, Golden Coast Holiday Park […]

It’s been a long time since I visited Twycross Zoo (Twycross Zoo with a Baby, and Animal Conservation) and there have been lots of changes since. This time I visited with my two children (5 year old and 3 year old) and a nephew (1 year old). The first thing is that they have changed […]

What does a steam powered pumping station and a hi-tech space centre have in common? They are both at the site of the former sewage works in Leicester. Perhaps a rather unusual thing to have in common, but there’s more as the Abbey Pumping Station which was responsible for pumping Leicester’s sewage is now Leicester’s […]

We visited Ducky’s Farm Park during our family holiday at Heysham, near Morecambe, but it is actually much closer to the Haven Lakeside caravan park at Flookburgh / Grange-Over-Sands; in fact it’s on the same road as the Haven site. Ducky’s is more along the lines of a commercialised children’s farm than the more traditional […]

Morecambe is a seaside resort in Lancashire between Blackpool and the Lake District. We visited Morecambe recently during our family holiday at Heysham Ocean Edge caravan site. On the first day we visited, as we first entered Morecambe it looked like a seaside resort that has closed down. The Frontierland theme park is now a […]