Travel diary of gardens, nature reserves, walks, houses and historic places to escape to and explore in the UK, USA and Portugal. Includes travel photography, botanical stories and ideas for a family day out with kids.
I’ve been quiet for quite a few days and what do I have to say…blooming marvellous. Or blooming marvelous if I use the American instead of British spelling. I’ve been on holiday – or, once again, on vacation as they say in the US – in Savannah, Georgia. Every day my children and I walked around […]
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What do you do with kids after a winter blizzard? Make angels. Jump in snow. Shake snow off bushes. Shovel a drive. But the best thing to do is get out the sleds and head for a hill. A slope which you can whizz down at full speed. And swirl down backwards. And dash back
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We visited the magical world of Grandfather Mountain in North Carolina while on the road with our kids. We bought entrance tickets at the gate but this was no theme park. This is a real mountain that dates back over a billion years. The legendary American frontiersman Daniel Boone (1734-1820) once hunted among its rocks. We
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We decided to get in the slow lane and drive on the Blue Ridge Parkway in the Appalachians. Tired of motorways, we headed to “America’s Favorite Drive.” Like Route 66 it’s legendary. I soon discovered why the Blue Ridge Mountains are called blue. A week or more could be spent on the road with kids following
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I was looking for a place for lunch and a break in our drive when I discovered the Adirondacks Wild Center. On the road with kids from Connecticut, USA to Ontario, Canada we needed a break in the journey. Leaving the major highways, we chose a route through the vast six million acres of wilderness
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It’s called the New Forest but it’s ancient and magical to visit with kids. When I was young, I spent weekends and many holidays sailing in the waters off its shore. My father was a keen sailor so we kept our boat in Lymington, a Georgian market town on the southern edge of the New
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