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Woodlands Theme Park Santa’s Grotto – the best Santa experience in Devon
What to expect from a visit to the Woodlands Theme Park Santa’s Grotto – a top Devon Christmas day out for families
Claire is an award-winning UK travel blogger who has been writing about family holidays and outdoor adventures for nearly 15 years. She is also the blogger behind the Devon with Kids and Oman Wanderlust websites, which share her expert knowledge of these two niche destinations
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The Complete Travel Checklist: a guide to packing lists & holiday essentials for families
Planning a holiday and need a travel checklist? Feast your eyes on our guide to family packing lists and travel essentials for trips with kids
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Family Afternoon Tea at China Fleet Country Club in Cornwall
Something that we’ve been very happy to embrace since moving to the South West is a cream tea – even if the ‘jam or cream first’ debate does cause tension! However, if those scones and cream happen to be accompanied by a full afternoon tea then we usually just simmer down and tuck in. Make…
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Tin Box Traveller family travel diaries: November 2018
November was a bit of a funny month. Navy life properly kicked in, gobbling up Mr Tin Box for weeks and then spitting him back out for our benefit. A part from that welcome interlude we’ve been hunkering down and getting on with things knowing that the business of Christmas is just around the corner….
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Reviewed: Waterside Resort near Bodmin – lodge holidays in Cornwall
Our obsession with Cornwall continues! If you’re a regular reader you’ll know we hang out there a lot – like, several times a year. But there was one type of break we’d not tried before…until recently. If you’re looking for lodge holidays in Cornwall then you’re going to want to read this review of Waterside Resort…
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Children’s activity packs for travel from Are We There Yet?
How do you entertain children while travelling? In our five years as parents we’ve tried and tested a number of tactics: snacks, music, car games, toys, magazines, snacks (yep, that’s not a typo – snacks happen a lot while we’re travelling). Something that we’ve not tried until now are pre-made children’s activity packs. *Advertisement feature*…
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Stonehenge Campsite review – the closest campsite to Stonehenge for glamping and touring
If you’re looking for a campsite close to Stonehenge or somewhere to go glamping in Wiltshire then we’d recommend checking out Stonehenge Campsite just off the A303. As the name suggests it is within a few minute’s drive of this iconic World Heritage Site and makes for a great base for visiting it, plus the…
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48 hours in Salisbury with kids – a short break in October half term
If you are looking for places to visit within easy reach of London then Salisbury must be on your destination list. But rather than do the standard day trip why not put down roots for a few days and really get to know the city? This is what we did in Salisbury with kids over…
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Norwegian Breakaway ship tour: where to eat, drink and have fun on an NCL family cruise
Back in September NCL’s Breakaway visited Southampton and we were invited onboard to see what the ship has to offer families cruising with kids. With Mr Tin Box off on his own Royal Navy ‘cruise’ and me stranded in Devon with the kids I tasked my friend Lorraine from My Secret Mum Blog with tackling the Norwegian…
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Saving for travel – are you putting aside enough to help your children?
When Tin Box Tot arrived in our lives I remember one of the very first jobs I did – once the haze of child birth had lifted – was to open her a savings account. We paid in £10 and then…spent every other penny we received on baby paraphernalia. I’m ashamed to say that when…
