For nearly every holiday I’ve been on since 2009 I’ve tried to do a cartoon ‘map’ that records all the funny silly sayings and most important things that happened on the trip.
In 2019 as a family we stopped flying because of its insanely high carbon footprint, and also because of how bad it is in terms of immediate noise and air pollution. It has meant our holiday destinations have become less exotic, but it really doesn’t matter when you are with friends or family! If you need tips for flight free holidays check out: flightfree.co.uk .
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Sister time!
My sister, her husband and their two children came to visit us last month and we got very lucky with the weather and had two great forest walking days and a morning of hitting the big sites in Brussels (all of which Verity aged 2 slept through!). Read more
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Willingen 2
We went back to Sonnenpark Familhotel in Willingen where we spent the October half term holiday in 2022 again this February half term. It was a really nice, easy holiday, which is not something one can usually say when travelling with children! But we knew the hotel, the food was great, the girls had a Read more
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Christmas ’24
I spent the first four days of the Christmas holidays in bed with the flu, but luckily was able to rally for the main festivities and our trip to the UK to see the rest of our family! Read more
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East Frisia
Continuing our no-fly holidays, this autumn we drove to a Kinderhotel in Norddeich in East Frisia, Germany. It turns out very few international tourists and even fewer English tourists ever go to this part of Germany and everyone in the hotel was completely baffled as to why we were there, but once I got over Read more
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Exmoor
It’s been ages since I last posted because of our house move in September which seems to have taken all of my time and energy. Finally feeling somewhat settled in the new house so I’ve some time to do some drawing and I’m catching up on holiday cartoons! We went to Exmoor in the summer Read more
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Vikings
My friend Catherine had a Viking themed festival in a field 40th birthday recently which was awesome. She’d somehow managed to call on the Norse weather gods and it was beautifully sunny the entire time, which for a May weekend in the north of England was amazing. I can also highly recommend the Into the Read more
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