White Ladies Priory and Lilleshall Abbey Visit
As this year we haven’t been able to go away for our weekend camping trips because of Coronavirus, we have visited some outdoor attractions that are local to us. As I had to finish...
Category: Places / Days Out
Visit to Creake Abbey & Baconsthorpe Castle
We are on holiday in Hunstanton, Norfolk and as we are members of English Heritage we looked at what is close by and decided on these to Baconsthorpe Castle & Creake Abbey as well...
What Our Family are Doing Concerning Coronavirus
First my heart goes out to families that have lost someone to the coronavirus. At the moment me and the missus are away on a 5 day break in Norfolk just at a caravan...
Potteries Museum & Art Gallery – Stoke-on-Trent Visit
We try to go to different city shopping centres when we go out shopping as going to the same towns with the same shops gets stale. Stoke-on-trent from us is about 45mins away. The...
Visiting the caravan and camping show at NEC – Lego Adventures
Having a day out at the caravan and camping show at the NEC Birmingham. As we are avid campers it is nice to see what is available. We don’t need a new tent as...
Lego Mini Figure Adventures
This is a section started a few years ago first I did a section following the adventures of Doctor Who, in both Lego type (Matt Smith 11th Doctor) using the Character Building sets and...
Moss Howe Farm Campsite – Grange Over Sands – Visit and Review
For a week break we decided to visit the lake district area for a few days then go around the York area for the rest of the week. We looked at a few camp...
Lego me visiting the smallest car boot sale
As we like going around car boot sales, mini Lego me decided to go to car boot, but this one was 120 miles away from home grate farm in kendal and then when we...
Treetops Campsite in Hedgerley – Slough Visit – Review
We go away camping alterative weekends, this time we decided to go down towards High Wycombe / Slough area, so did a quick Google search and found one called Treetops Campsite. As we had...
Weekend Camping break June 2019 in Porlock by Minehead
First day of weekend break camping, we were going to Bath, but on way down decided to go to Minehead, Julie looked at what was around with national trust, English heritage etc and seen...
Tyntesfield House & Gardens Visit
We had a weekend away in Brean, Somerset and as we are National Trust members look at what was around the area, We decided to go to Tyntesfield House which is more near Bristol...
Upton House And Gardens – Edgehill Near Banbury Visit
While we was having a weekend away camping we went to Upton House and gardens in Edge Hill near Banbury. As we are National Trust members entrance is free though prices are Adults £10.90,...
Farnborough Hall Near Banbury Visit
We are National Trust members and while on a weekend away we visited Farnborough Hall after visiting Upton House which is nearby. Entrance for national trust members is free, normal entry prices for house...
Coventry Transport Museum Visit
A few weekends we had to drop our daughter off to Leamington Spa, so we decided on the way back we would visit Coventry, I persuaded the missus to go so could go round...
Mottistone Gardens & Compton Bay & Downs Visit
Mottistone Gardens Mottistone Gardens is on the south coast of the Isle of Wight and is part owned by the National Trust, Entrance is £5.80 Adults, £2.90 Children, £14.50 Family (non gift aid prices)....
Godshill Model Village Visit in The Isle of Wight
While on holiday on the Isle of Wight we had to visit Godshill Model village, as I love visiting model villages. Godshill model village it tucked away on the high street of Godshill village...
Barnstones Caravan & Camping Park Great Bourton Near Banbury Visit
As we are new to camping we just like to go away after work on Friday and come back on the sunday, so we don’t like to travel that far on the Friday as...
Visit To Packwood House & Baddesley Clinton
We had to pick some furniture up from Knowle and as we are National Trust member we decided to visit two local attractions which were Baddesley Clinton & Packwood house, so here are quick...
Visit To Kinver Edge & Rock Houses
Our recent visit to the national trust Kinver Edge and rock houses, lovely place and a very nice walk , my review and photos
Brick Wonders Exhibition at Wolverhampton
Recent visit to the touring exhibition of Warren Elsmore’s Brick Wonders, over 70 Lego models on display from small models to full scenes at Wolverhampton Art Gallery
Monkey Haven – Isle of Wight
On our last day before setting back home from the Isle of Wight we decided to go to the Monkey Haven – Primate rescue centre, which is just outside of Newport. Prices are £10...
Dinosaur Isle (Isle Of Wight) – Visit
While on holiday on the isle of Wight we had seen in the welcome pack of where we were staying an advert for Dinosaur isle in Sandown, so thought we would go and have...
Carisbrooke Castle Visit – Isle of Wight
Carisbrooke castle is just outside of Newport on the Isle Of Wight and is owned by English Heritage. Entrance prices are £8.80 Adults, £5.20 Children. £25.20 Family (2 Adults, 3 Children) (non gift aid...
Our first experience in Camping
We decided that myself and the missus would try camping and at nearly 43 this will be the first time I have been camping in about 30 years and the missus in over 20...
Visit To Tutbury Castle
On the way back from a visit to Sudbury Hall & Childhood museum, we decided to visit Tutbury Castle, Staffordshire. We visited on Sunday 29th May and we didn’t realise that there was an...
Visit to Birdland in Bourton-on-the-water
While on a day out to the lovely village Bourton On The Water we decided to visit a few attractions within the village. One of the places we visited was the Cotswold Birdland Park...
Hall Green Greyhound Stadium Demolition
Hearing in the last week about the closure of Birmingham’s Hall Green Greyhound stadium it made me remember of a time I went there a good few years ago. At the time of writing...
Quick Walk Around Hayhead Wood Nature Reserve – Aldridge
We decided to take the dog for a walk around Hayhead Wood nature reserve in Aldridge. The nature reserve is off the A454 Aldridge Road and is set in 17 acres. The reserve has a mixture of woodland, wetland and grassland habitats. The now nature’s reserve was originally part of the hay head work which mined limestone,
Nature Walk Around Beacon Park Lichfield
The other week had an hour or so to spare while the missus was at interview in Lichfield town centre I decided to take my camera and have a wonder round by Beacon park...
Motor Museum Visit – Bourton-On-The-Water
While on a nice day out in Bourton on the water we visited a few attractions one of these was the Cotswold motoring museum and toy collection, price are £5.25 Adults, £3.74 Children (4-16yrs)...
Model Village Bourton-on-the-water Visit
While on a day trip to Bourton-on-the-water for the bank holiday we visited the model village, we had been to the model village before but this was about 15 years ago, so thought would...
National Space Museum Visit
We recently visited the national space Museum in Leicester, which is just outside the city centre. We got tickets using the must see three, which is one price for three attractions in the area...
Visit To Tropical Birdland
This week because our daughter had a day of school for teacher training, we decided to go out for the day, I had originally planned to go to the space centre in Nottingham as...
Conkers Outdoor Play Visit
We went to Conkers a outdoor adventure attraction on bank holiday Monday. It is described as “enter a world of adventure & discovery at the heart of the national forest” Conkers is in Moira,...
Stratford-Upon-Avon Butterfly Farm Visit
We recently had a visit to Stratford-upon-avon and I decided to go round the butterfly farm. My daughter had been before but myself and partner hadn’t s thought It would make a nice family...
Moseley Old Hall Visit
We decieded as we had a free afternoon to go visit Moseley Old Hall which is located in Fordhouses, just north of Wolverhampton. Entrance prices are Adult: £6.75, Child: £3.35 and Family ticket: £16.85...
Liverpool Museum & Albert Dock
Last year while we were on holiday in Southport we decided to have a day out in Liverpool. We decided to go the Albert Docks around the dock are several museums. These are the...
Upcoming Local Family Events
Here is just a quick list of some upcoming events in the Walsall, West Midlands and Burntwood / Lichfield, South Staffordshire Between May and August 2014. These events we have been too in previous...
High Peak Junction Walk
After recently catching up on the Tony Robinson TV Series Walking through history, in the first episode I noticed him looking at a building on part of his walk and it reminded me that...
Attingham Park & Mansion
I visited Attingham park today, as I had finished sooner on some work in nearby Shrewsbury, and because have a family membership to the National Trust though I would just have a quick look...
Wall Roman Site (Letocetum)
A few months ago we visited the Wall Roman site (Letocetum) just off the A5 Watling Street, Staffordshire. Now I have lived around the are for most of my life but never visited this...
Wookey Hole & Caves
While we was on holiday at a Pontins holiday park in Brean Sands we decided to visit Wookey hole near Wells in Somerset , it was the choice between Wookey hole or Cheddar Gorge,...
First Time Ice Skating At Silverblades
The other weekend we went ice skating for the stepdaughters birthday which there was eight kids iceskating, we went to silverblades in Cannock normal price for entry is dependent on the day you go...
Chasewater Jan 2014
Its hard to believe that it is 4 years since Chasewater reservoir started to be emptied, see my previous posts in 2010 and 2011 for details. Having a hour free this afternoon I decided...
Hornsea Museum – Yorkshire
Last year we visited the Hornsea museum in East Riding of Yorkshire, The museum looks small from the outside, but loads to do and discover inside. So don’t be put off when you walk...
First Time Doing Geocaching
Recently the missus discovered geo-caching. The basics of geo-caching is were you explore different places using your smartphone or GPS device to find a box with items in. First you need to goto the...
Castle ring
We live pretty close to castle ring so we do enjoy walking round there and there is also a very nice pub there “the park gate” so nice to have a walk then a...
Sudbury Hall & Museum of Childhood
We visited sudbury Hall and the museum of childhood recently, which is a national Trust property. Entrance cost to both the hall and the childhood museum is £13.50 adults, £6.75 children, £20.25 family (1...
Heritage Open Days 2013
Just a quick reminder about the national heritage open days this weekend, I had forgotten about this yearly event as it was from Thursday 12th – Sunday 15h September. This is were over 4000...
John Bull’s World Of Rock
John Bull’s World of rock is situated about 2 miles just outside of Bridlington, North Yorkshire. Admission prices are £2.50 adults, £2.00 children and is open term time 11am to 3:30pm Monday to Friday...
