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 […]
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Lightwater Valley – Ultimate Fun at the Theme Park
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
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 […]
Rock Up & Climb Hull
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 […]
A Visit to the National Coal Mining Museum for England
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 […]
8 Things to do with the kids for free or cheap in North Yorkshire this summer
The summer holidays can be a nightmare for parents when it comes to occupying the children for 6 weeks while trying to avoid going bankrupt! It’s a challenge we face annually and when you have 4 kids as we do then the costs involved with many attractions can be challenging and prohibitive. Some places can […]
When a Fun Family Day Out Goes Wrong
I love the term “microadventure”. This is something I try and do with our girls to get them out of their comfort zone and trying new things. Microadventures for some people may be jumping on a train and seeing a new city, or like us getting out to a hidden lake and wild swimming. It’s […]