Family Holiday Harmony or Family Holiday Hell?
Travelling with a Family Tips https://youtu.be/yBERKTBazM8 There are lots of tips for handling holidays with tiny-tots or teenagers, but far less information around for managing harmonious travel with grown up, or almost grown up children. Travelling with a family can be a challenge. One excellent exception to this claim is this blog, flashpacking family.com which is great fun […]
A Guesthouse that’s Good Enough for a Middle-aged Mum?
Choosing a Hotel Having used these travel tips for packing our cases, I felt confident that we would be well prepared for our Northcoast500 adventure. I hadn’t realised, though, how challenging choosing a hotel, a guest house or a B and B could be. If only we had rDuring our Northcoast500 adventure we’ve experienced the ‘same same, but different’ […]
Northcoast 500: Grown up Family – Same Same, but Different
Travelling the North Coast 500 Day 2 of our ‘Northcoast 500 in Scotland trip has started fairly well. We’ve waved off MrytleBank Guest House in FortWilliam. The staff were very friendly, with their ‘wee this’ and ‘wee that’; the view from our room was stunning; and the facilities were excellent (just as well as we […]
Is ‘B’ good enough?
Is B a Good Grade? I often ask myself what is a good grade. Is a B grade good enough?School GradesAt school if I’d self-assessed and averaged out my grades I am pretty sure I’d have been a stock standard Grade ‘B’ student. I’d maybe reach an ‘A’ for the odd English piece; in French […]
Swimming Woes – What type of fish are you?
Types of Swimmers Fish as swimming metaphors can get complicated! I’ve tried to be patient. I’ve tried to be fair. I’ve spoken positively of my local pool. I’ve tried not to make negative comparisons between it and Thana City’s multiple swimming areas – all bathed in a warm, balmy, sunny 35 degrees glow, edged in 5 […]
Post Exams and Empty Nesters
Empty Nest Syndrome So the results are in. Our drive to Edinburgh (on results day) for a weekend break was tinged with nerves and trepidation. We are lucky. Betsy did well so will be heading off to York University in September! I say lucky, but I don’t want to detract from how blooming hard she […]