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Writing a travel wishlist for the year is always trickier than a days out one as a lot depends on being able to get time off work and having the money to do it.
Our travel plans have already changed this year with our holiday to Disneyland Paris during the…
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Have you heard of Novasol before?
No?
If I am honest, neither had I before they asked me to run a fun quiz in my house with a bunch of my friends, all about the locations in Europe where they have holiday homes.
Novasol Holiday Homes is part of the Wyndham Holiday…
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I always find it fascinating looking at my stats and seeing which posts have been the most popular in the last year – it is rarely the ones you think it will be and this year is no exception.
I enjoy researching travel almost as much as travelling itself and…
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It is that time of the year where we are in limbo between Christmas and New Year and my thoughts have turned to booking a holiday for 2017.
The kids are all desperate to go to Disney as our last visit was 4 years ago. Unfortunately, Florida is out of…
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Do you have a Star Wars fan in the house?
Hubby is Star Wars mad and has passed his love of it onto both Callan and Kian, with Isaac (8) starting to like it now too.
In super exciting news, did you know that you can now fulfil your Star Wars…
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The fourth port we docked in on our Mediterranean cruise aboard Carnival Vista was Livorno which is a short coach ride from Pisa and Florence.
We made the decision to just visit Pisa and take the kids along for the ride as it was a relatively short excursion in comparison…
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We have just returned from an amazing holiday aboard the Carnival Vista cruise ship which has so much to see and do onboard that you don’t actually have to step onshore if you don’t want to.
Some activities only run on sea days and we only had one sea day…
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Back in February we made the journey from Poole to St Malo in France for half term.
It was a holiday we thoroughly enjoyed, although surviving a ferry journey with kids in bad weather was a steep learning curve.
Taking the ferry is far less hassle than travelling by air, as…
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Our recent cruise aboard the Carnival Vista first took is to Messina, Sicily, then Naples where we made a visit to Pompeii and the next stop was Civitavecchia, the port closest to Rome.
There were plenty of planned tours to purchase onboard the ship, however, we made the decision to explore Rome…
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When we first found out we were docking in Naples on our cruise aboard the Carnival Vista, a visit to Pompeii was a must.
Pompeii is a Roman town frozen in time, thanks to the devastating eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD and is the only place in 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
