I’m so sorry that none of us has written any blog posts recently. There’s been a few reasons for this: It turns out internet throughout the UK is pretty patchy unless you are in a big city – and sometimes even then. When cottages or hotels/guest-houses advertise that they have […]
Yesterday we went to Gloucester Cathedral. Gloucester Cathedral was used for parts of the Harry Potter movies. We found the Gryffindor common room, Professor Flitwick’s classroom and the great hall (we think it was the great hall anyway). We also found the hallway where Harry and Ron stood laughing at the […]
In our continuing journey of visiting a new church each week and crossing more and more places off the All-Star Churches to Visit Before you Die list, we decided that being in London we had to go to Hillsong. We attended the central Hillsong campus located in the Dominion Theatre […]
So last week I saw an advert for bloggers to review the 2016 New York City Guide from Independent Guidebooks. Well, I figured, another guide book never goes astray, especially if it’s up-to-date and can be put on my iPad to read whenever I want. Plus we are wanting to […]
UPDATED AUGUST 2017 I’m not sure what sort of places we will have in other parts of the world, but we are trying to do self-catering houses/cottages/apartments for our UK accommodation. A quick search on Hotels.com will show you that you generally won’t get decent hotel accommodation in many UK locations, for a family […]
We recently went on the Big Bus Tour in London. There were three tours around London: The red line, green line and blue line. RED LINE On the red tour we had a live commentator and I enjoyed the tour but we had to get off for a toilet break. This […]
He just loves Doctor Who, so when asked what he wanted to write his London blog on, that was the only thing he could think of: “Places he has been that have also been in Doctor Who”.
Let’s face it, visiting the Tower of London with kids, or any over-crowded, major tourist attraction around the world, can be difficult. Add in the fact that there are two young kids who are just getting into the hang of visiting historical sites and museums, instead of things like Disneyland and aquariums. […]
Sunday the 3rd of January saw us venture out again to visit a new church. This was definitely one to cross of the All-Star Churches to Visit Before you Die list. Holy Trinity Brompton, also known as The Alpha Church. Now it’s not called the Alpha Church because it was […]
It takes a lot to plan a year away, back packing on a budget with a young family. This is where our planning is at so far.
