Category: Travel

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Loch Lomond 2015 – Day 2

Inchcailloch After our little stroll into Balmaha yesterday, we had decided that we wanted to take a boat trip out to the island and Nature Reserve of Inchcailloch. It’s only a couple of hundred yards off shore from Balmaha and I was going to swim out to it, but decided against that as I would...

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Loch Lomond 2015 – Day 1

Our summer of long weekends continued last weekend with a trip to Scotland, camping on the shores of Loch Lomond. The primary objective of the trip was for Morgan to visit his friend Cameron who moved up here earlier in the year, but we obviously wanted to enjoy the scenery too. The Drive Up –...

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Sheep Hunting in Bristol – Shaun in the City

We were at my parents house for the weekend ready for a large family picnic on Sunday, but had no real plans for Saturday. I went for a nice little early morning bike ride before breakfast. We then we decided that a game of Crazy Golf might be fun so phoned my brother Jay to see if...

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School Ireland Visit – Day 4

On day 4 we went to Tayto Park. We got up and did our morning routine. Got dressed and got on the bus to Tayto Park. Tayto Park is a theme park based upon the Tayto Crisps, the Irish version of Walkers. When we got to Tayto Park the first sight of a ride was...

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School Ireland Visit – Day 3

On day 3 we went to Dublin for the Day and learnt about it’s history with the vikings. First we got up and did out daily shower routines, with all the singing. We then got our stuff ready to go to Dublin, we got on the bus and played cards all the way there. When...

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School Ireland Visit – Day 2

Day 2 we went to a school that our school was paired with. When we woke up we had to work our who was having a shower when, we decided last night that all the Year 6s have their showers in the evening and the Year 5s had their’s in the morning. I was second...

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Children’s Games for Car Journeys – Ratalingdong

That familiar cry of ‘Are we nearly there yet? Here’s a great game for children to help alleviate the boredom of long car journeys. We are fairly sure that my Grandad on my Mum’s side invented this game and we’ve yet to find anyone else who plays it so that could well be true. It’s...

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Holiday to Dorset – Moors Valley Country Park

As was now customary on this holiday, I headed out first thing in the morning for an early morning walk to find some geocaches. This time I headed in a different direction along the network of Cycle Paths and found a nice little nature reserve to stroll through. I found a geocache as well, but...

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Holiday to Dorset – Dorchester & Chesil Beach

I can’t believe it’s Friday already, we may have packed a lot into our holiday so far, but there was still so much to do. Today started with an early morning walk for me where I found three geocaches and as usual returned with croissants for breakfast for Anna and Morgan. We then headed off...

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Holiday to Dorset – Climbing (not) and a day in Weymouth

Wednesday morning dawned bright and sunny once again we had no sleep as the room was so hot. I therefore went out for an early morning walk into the reeds of the Lodmor Country Park as the sun rose.   I returned with croissants for breakfast for Anna and Morgan. We complained about the ridiculous heat...