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One of our favourite activities over the Christmas period is seeing all the festive lights that people put up and this year, for the first time, Kingston Lacy lit up their beautiful formal garden.
Unlike many light displays, the Kingston Lacy ones were included in the price of our National…
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Last year I wrote a post all about our travel our year of travel in 2018 and remarked that we had nothing booked for 2019.
I feel like it is history repeating itself as we have yet to book anything for 2020, but 2019 was a really memorable year of travel for…
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Seeing the Northern Lights is something that eluded us during our visit to Lapland, so when we booked our holiday to Iceland, we looked into various tours that would give us the best chance of seeing them.
Northern Lights are best displayed under dark, clear skies, so you need to…
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Our first excursion during our visit to Iceland was with Reykjavik Sightseeing, on their South Coast Classic Tour and for the first half of the tour we visited Reynisfjara Black Sand Beach and this post covers the second half of our excursion.
Upon leaving the pretty town of Vik, we headed…
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Winchester Cathedral’s Christmas Market is recognised as one of the best Christmas Markets in the UK and we visited for the first time a couple of weeks ago.
Set in the grounds of Winchester Cathedral, it is inspired by German Christmas Markets, with wooden cabins and ornate stalls selling everything…
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On Saturday, we were invited to Lighthouse Poole to attend the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra’s family-friendly concert of Christmas music to get us all into the holiday mood.
The Lighthouse was filled with multiple generations of families and we were all positively encouraged to join in from the start.
The concert of…
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We are now firmly in the month of December and one of the highlights of the run up to Christmas is a good, old fashioned pantomime.
This year we were invited to the press night of Aladdin at the Pavilion Theatre, Bournemouth.
The story follows Aladdin, his brother Wishee Washee, and…
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
