We recently had the pleasure of visiting Monk Park Farm. In fact, we visited in April and more recently this past weekend. A visit to a play farm is like a right of passage for any parent – I am yet to find one that hasn’t taken their little cherubs to one. Who doesn’t love […]
Lotherton Hall in north Leeds used to be somewhere we would take the girls a couple of weekends each month. Before the pricing policy change in 2011 we would go there and park for the day for about £5 and have access to the playground, countryside walks, the gardens and the bird gardens. It’s a […]
Last summer, you may remember, I wrote a post about our visit to GoApe at Dalby Forest in North Yorkshire. That trip, as I said at the time, was gifted by GoApe and we’re very grateful for that. This time, however, we paid for it ourselves and guess what? Spoiler alter! We had just as […]
In 2014 we moved from the old Yorkshire rag trade town of Dewsbury to the border of the North York Moors. Suddenly we were surrounded by what used to be day trip destinations for us. So why we have waited five years to visit this beautiful place is quite beyond me. Spoiler alert: Rievaulx Abbey […]
Happy New Year and welcome back to the Yorkshire Dad of 4 blog for 2019! A tradition we have in our family is that on New Year’s Day we go for a walk. Now, keen followers may wonder what’s special about that given that I am forever out walking. You may have a point. But, […]
As we live just down the road from Dalby Forest we are frequent visitors there. On every visit, I stop and watch the folk whizzing down the zip lines of Go Ape. Although I’ve not got a brilliant head for heights I’ve often wanted to try their treetop adventures with the children. We visited during […]
Lightwater Valley theme park is near Ripon in North Yorkshire. It’s a theme park I haven’t visited since I was a young teenager myself so I was looking forward to taking the family for a day out there. This is another visit in our summer of microadventures and here’s how it went. We’d not told […]
York Chocolate Story is an experience we’ve wanted to do for a while. Every time we’re in York we walk past and say something like “we’ll do that next time”. Except we have never done it. Well, we were given the opportunity to visit this past weekend and found it a brilliant family experience. Here’s […]
This past weekend we visited Rock Up in Hull to try out their climbing walls as part of our summer of #microadventures. Read on to find out about our day out what we thought of the place. Why Rock Up indoor rock climbing? When you have four daughters ranging from 8 years old to 14 […]
The last time I remember visiting the national coal mining museum for England I was about twelve years old and it was on a school trip. I remember this trip in particular because there had been a miscalculation and there weren’t enough seats on the bus for everyone. I drew the short straw and had […]
