Category: Holidays

The end is in sight

Normally, the words “the end is in sight” are met with huge relief, but this time they refer to the end of the school holidays and small daughter is not relieved at all.  We’ve...

Time out

With big daughter’s Peru trip just under 2 weeks away now, we’ve been away this weekend to spend a bit of time together as a family without the usual hustle and bustle of routine life before...

Getting away from it all

The schools in England are on half-term holiday at the end of October.  My girls were so ready for a break, and the last week before they finished seemed to drag endlessly. We had...

Beside the seaside

It’s been lovely looking at all the seaside photos in Blogland recently, especially as we hadn’t planned to have a holiday this year after our big adventure last year, but it had got to the...

Summer 2014 – New York

It’s only a short hop from Ottawa to New York – 45 minutes on the plane if that.  The planes have been getting progressively smaller too, as we’ve travelled north from Orlando and this...

Summer 2014 – Ottawa

It took longer than we would have imagined to get to Ottawa; a flight to Toronto and then a connecting flight to Ottawa.  It’s a surprise that it’s not easier to get there seeing...