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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Limburg
For the girls half term holiday we went to Limburg, which is an hour and fifteens minutes drive from Brussels. We got a bit unlucky with the weather because it rained everyday we were there when there had been an almost 2 month long drought in Brussels just before we left. There is so much… Read more
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Easter 2025
We had another Easter in the Lake District and this time got super lucky with the weather – it only drizzled one morning out of the week we were there which is unheard of! The girls are finally able to do some longer walks without too many complaints, so we made it up Sale, Binsey,… Read more
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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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