Here in the U.K today is Mother’s Day. This is a shout out to all those mums who take their children off on adventures around the globe. This is also a shout out to our mums wherever they took us. When I was little my mum felt too concerned due to feelings of claustrophobia to […]
After a trip a few years back to Corfu in which Lyla spent most of her time face down, snorkel on, staring at fish, I knew the Great Barrier Reef was a must visit during our trip to Australia. To get from Perth to Alice Springs, then onto Port Douglas added a considerable sum to […]
Lyla has her own YouTube channel where she posts regularly about all things that interest you when you’re ten. Today she uploaded her film of our recent road trip. Here it is Road trip UK
Brown Willy was a bit of an anti climax if you’ll excuse the pun. It’s basically a hill that we couldn’t easily get to in the rain. We couldn’t find any signs for it either. The most impressive thing is that Brown Willy is 1,378 feet high. Butt Close in Glastonbury was somewhat overshadowed by […]
I sought this one out because I couldn’t quite believe it! Butt Lane, Shitterton. Our best find yet! This will take some beating. We also passed the River Piddle on the way back to our Air B&B. A good day for rude place names.
After staying in the Red Centre we took a flight to our next destination, Port Douglas. We flew in from Ayers Rock airport which is about as big as my living room! Whilst we were staying there, Lyla befriended another girl from Pool, Dorset and spent a lot of her time hanging out with her […]
When I first heard about the i360 being built, I was like a lot of local residents, opposed to it. Since seeing it go up I had slowly come around to the idea. Yesterday afternoon at around 4.30pm I decided to surprise Lyla with a trip on Brightons latest tourist attraction . I just told […]
I read an article recently explaining the science behind car sickness. I suffered from this terribly as a child and couldn’t travel further than half an hour in the car without being ill. Luckily Lyla doesn’t suffer from it, our road trip around Europe would have been very different if she did. Apparently because humans […]