Tag: days
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Nausicaa Sea-Life Centre only an 1.5 hours from London!
I had no idea there was a Sea-Life Centre, in Boulogne, which in only 1.5 hours from London. We hopped onto the Eurostar at St. Pancras International and within an hour we were in Calais. The Sea-Life centre is only 20km from there. The journey through the tunnel was enough excitement on it’s own for…
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Butterfly World
If you haven’t been to Butterfly World, near St. Albans, in awhile you may be surprised at some of the improvements. When it first opened it was a bit of a disaster; very overpriced, including the café and it was pretty much a building site. It was nice to see all the improvements yesterday, they’ve…
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Win tickets to a Kid’s Festival in August!
Thanks to the lovely people at Lollibop I have a family ticket (4 people) to give away on the blog (value £80) for the Festival on the 5th, 6th and 7th of August in Regents Park. We’re gutted we can’t go as we will be at a family reunion in Canada but it looks like…
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Twelve Days of Christmas! Kiwi Style
Next contacted me to help promote their Twelve Days of Christmas, it immediately reminded me of New Zealand. I originally trained as a teacher in Canada but there wasn’t a lot of work for teachers. At the time, NZ had a shortage of teachers and were offering $3000 to relocate. You didn’t have to ask…
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Dinosaur Days!
We accidently had a Dinosaur themed weekend. Someone recently suggested ‘theme-ing’ your week with your kids (e.g under the water, at the Zoo, etc.). However, to be honest I thought it sounded a bit wanky and far too organised for me. Nonetheless, in this case it worked out well. Last week a friend recommended Knebworth…