Life's about experiences. These are mine.
After a couple of days of doing adult oriented events today was really about keeping the active toddler busy. Turns out that a long walk to the activity centre followed by roller skating, then football and then swimming in the afternoon is enough to wear out everyone in the party and not just a three …
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While the children were off doing childreny things this morning myself and my younger son again went on another adult activity. Before coming here we both went through the list of activities available and came up with a shortlist from which we picked two things that we were interested in doing. Yesterday we did archery …
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For the second year running we are back at Center Parcs Longleat for a family holiday. This year there are two more of us than there were last year as we now have a second granddaughter and our younger son is here too. It’s really nice to get the whole family together like this and …
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For my first day of (semi)-retirement we decided to visit the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew. It’s been quite a few years since our last visit, ten in fact. The last time was a blustery winters day so we thought it would be good to see it at a different time of year. It’s a …
WARNING SPOILERS AHEAD! If you haven’t been and want to keep the magic for when you do stop reading now! When it was announced a year or so ago that ABBA were reforming and would be performing I knew that we would have to go. ABBA has long been a guilty pleasure of ours. The …
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We have been vaguely aware of the Milestones museum‘s existance for quite a while now, seeing the signs for it every time we drove through Basingstoke. We’ve had no compelling reason to visit it until recently when we were looking for somewhere engaging to take our young granddaughter this holiday. Milestones is living museum that …
It has been quite a while since I have been down to the Historic Dockyards at Portsmouth but there is so much there that it is always worth a visit. Going there on what was predicted to be the hottest day of the year probably wasn’t the smartest move but we’d planned it for a …
One of the most annoying things, for me, about Center Parcs is being constantly asked “what’s your lodge number?” when going to pay for anything. It reminds me of being in a duty free shop at the airport and always being asked your flight number. They do this for exactly the same reasons – marketing …
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The last day of any holiday is always one of packing and waiting and Center Parcs is no different. You have to be out of the lodge by 10am but you can stay on until the end of the day if you wish. We had decided to stay until lunchtime and so once we had …
I’ve walked a long way today – 8.2 miles to be precise. This actually takes some doing as while Longleat Center Parcs is reasonably self contained you can cover quite a lot of ground if you don’t plan your sessions with some care. So it was that we found ourselves first thing walking over to …
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