Category: For kids & families
Last year we went along to the Big Day Out in Mote Park, Maidstone, Kent, which happened to fall on the smallest’s second birthday. You can read all about our day here; we had a great time and the kids really enjoyed themselves at their very first festival. The Big Day …
Adventure Avenue is a brand new addition to The Martlets Shopping Centre, Burgess Hill. It is officially opening today and along with my blogging pals Katie and Lisa (and their children!) we were invited along for a sneak preview! Adventure Avenue in Burgess Hill is ‘A place where kids can feel free …
The Fenn Bell inn in Allhallows, near Rochester is a 17th century pub which serves food and drink. However there is something rather usual about Fenn Bell Inn. In the pub garden, as well as the usual benches and umbrellas, there is a zoo and a miniature railway. We do …
Little Street Maidstone is what pre-schooler dreams are made of! Entertaining pre-school children in the school holidays is, as I have said before, a bit of a challenge. This is particularly true when the weather is rubbish, and it really has been. Good lord. I remember when summer was – …
Ruxley Manor is a garden centre in Sidcup, just outside of Swanley. Recently they opened the Pixie Manor experience and so we paid a visit. Ruxley is not far from Swanley Park (which we reviewed here) and it’s about half an hour’s drive from where we live in West Kent. …
This post continues my list of free (and really cheap) places to go in the West Kent (Tunbridge Wells, Tonbridge, Sevenoaks and Maidstone) area. Parts one to four of this list can be found by clicking here and parts five to eight can be found here. I’m so pleased that people …
It was the small one’s second birthday at the weekend. I still can’t believe he’s two. In many ways, for example his ability to argue back, he seems so much older, but he’s still my youngest baby. We decided to forgo the party and instead have a day out to …
A little while ago, I was invited along by Red Letter Days for a Tea with a Tiger experience at Paradise Wildlife Park in Broxbourne, Hertfordshire. Red Letter Days provides experience days which you can buy as gifts for those people who actually do have everything already. In a pre-child life, my husband …
Welcome to my second list of free things to do in Tonbridge, Tunbridge Wells and Sevenoaks. I hope you find it useful! Parts one to four of this list of free places to go in West Kent can be found by clicking here. Parts nine to 12 can be found …
Living in Tonbridge in Kent, there are some amazing things to do with kids locally, especially when the weather starts to perk up. You can see some of the places we’ve been to under the ‘Travel and days out‘ tab – which I am slowly adding to as time permits. …
