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During our visit to Northern Ireland we couldn’t leave without heading over the border for a whistle stop tour of Dublin, as it is only a couple of hours drive from Belfast.
Hubby is a Guinness drinker, so visiting the Guinness Storehouse was the first thing on our list to…
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Northern Ireland’s Causeway Coast is home to some of the most stunning coastal scenery I have ever seen and a short drive from the Giant’s Causeway is the Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge.
Owned by the National Trust, the Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge is a famous rope bridge near Ballintoy in County Antrim,…
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Series 8 of Game of Thrones is only a few weeks away and during our visit to Northern Ireland in February half term we visited many of the shows fantastic filming locations, many of which are dotted along the Northern Ireland Coastal Route.
Numerous key scenes have been filmed in…
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Many of us take booking a holiday for granted, but what about those with limited mobility or those needing pet friendly properties for people with hearing or visual impairments?
Many places in the UK and abroad now offer accessible facilities to cater for everyone’s needs, but it is important to…
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Taking the kids out and about to interesting places can be an expensive hobby, but I have a sure fire way of saving money and giving the kids a whole year of fun.
Buying an English Heritage annual membership for two gives you unlimited access to over 400 historic places…
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Eliza is my little bookworm and devours entire books in a couple of days.
Her current favourite book series is The Worst Witch series by Jill Murphy, which I have fond memories of reading when I was at school.
If you have not read any of the books, in a time…
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If there was one thing that saved us a lot of money during our visit to Northern Ireland, it was our National Trust membership as many of the sites we wanted to visit were looked after by them.
Our first visit of our holiday was to the Giant’s Causeway and…
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One of the first buildings we caught sight of on our visit to Belfast was the stunning Titanic Belfast Museum, which was sat beautifully lit in pinks and purples on the banks of the River Lagan.
Titanic Belfast opened on the centenary of the Titantic disaster in 2012, on the…
Are we nearly there yet? is a new online blog run by me, Kara Guppy, and is named as such thanks to my daughter Eliza who always asks that very question when we are less than 5 minutes up the road heading off on our adventures. You may know me from my other family blog chelseamamma.co.uk
