A blustery Rhossili bay walk
One of the things I love about holidays is getting out and about. I’m not great at getting out around home, unless we go out for the day, but on holiday there’s always places I want to see and do. …
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It’s too damn hot – day out at Feast Waddesdon Manor
I really don’t deal with heat well. It’s obviously a family thing because our mum hated the hot weather (despite or maybe because of living in various hot countries as a child) and my brother despite tanning really easily, isn’t…
Enjoying natural play at Anglesey Abbey and Gardens
We’ve pretty much been to every National Trust property near us, but holidays mean there’s more opportunity to explore and discover new places. Many appear on other blogs I’ve read, but on our way home from Norfolk, I wanted to…
Exploring National Trust’s Felbrigg Hall
As children we holidayed a couple of years in north Norfolk, so I was keen to return to some of the places we’d visited back then. It was a real blast from the past although I tend to only remember…
Easter Egg hunt at Upton House
It’s been a while since I’ve been to our nearby National Trust property, Upton House. And a few years since I took N for a Cadbury easter egg hunt there. The first time we took N’s youngest cousin with us,…
Mottisfont – an outdoor National Trust visit
With National Trust membership, I always feel like we should make the most of it whenever we’re away. So on our February break in the New Forest, we stopped at Mottisfont on the way home. N wasn’t impressed at doing…
Friends together at National Trust Stowe Gardens
We met up with friends at Stowe Gardens to see the snowdrops and get the boys outside. We explored new areas to us – the chinese house
Winter walk at Stowe Gardens
We had a really lazy Christmas holidays. Usually N can’t wait to get out on the farm, but this holiday, he mostly only went out for an hour or so. My anticipated free time to spend blogging didn’t happen, and…
A Waddesdon Manor Christmas festive visit
This year I’m really struggling to persuade N to come out with me. I guess most families go out all together, so if the OH came out then he’d be more willing. But this week the guys were turkey picking…
Dashed high expectations of National Trust’s Claydon
You know when you decide to go somewhere on a whim, don’t really take much notice of the information provided beforehand and end up at a place that isn’t really suitable or what was expected? That’s exactly how I felt…
Second National Trust property in a day – Chastleton House
On my big National Trust weekend (3 properties in 1 weekend), I popped over the Chastleton House one afternoon. I’m not usually a fan of properties that open in the afternoon because I much prefer getting to places early and so…