Category Archives: United Kingdom

Lanterns at Longleat
Visiting Longleat Festival of Light

I’ll start this post off by wishing my readers a Happy New Year for 2017. [...]

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06
Jan
First sight of the lemurs basking in the sun
Close Encounters of the Animal Kind: The Wild Place

Earlier this summer the Cub, Bee and I joined some friends for a day out at The [...]

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11
Nov
Westonbirt Arboretum in autumn; best things to do in the Cotswolds with kids
Autumnal Beauty at Westonbirt Arboretum

Autumn is here again and the leaves are changing colour for a few short weeks. [...]

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25
Oct
Royal Pavilion Brighton
Piers and Pavilions: things to do in Brighton with kids

If you want to visit the English seaside you could do worse than a trip [...]

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22
Oct
Warwick Castle Keep, Warwickshire
Walking the Walls of Warwick Castle

Warwick Castle is under siege.  It 1642 and the middle of the English Civil War [...]

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08
Oct
St. Michael’s Mount

Just off the south coast of the westernmost tip of Cornwall lies the tiny island of [...]

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22
Sep
Discovering the Real Secret Gardens

Imagine what it must be like to discover something lost to living memory. Rather like [...]

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30
Aug
Risking a few days in Fowey

As a native of Devon, it pains me somewhat to have to admit that I [...]

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11
Jul