Food Travel
Family Days Out In Tuscany
When you’re visiting Tuscany, there’s a real temptation to stay put and enjoy the sunshine and facilities on your campsite or at your villa however, I would recommend that you pack a bag with some sunscreen, water and snacks and head out exploring this interesting and historical part of Italy. Here’s a list of places […]
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Parc Albatros in Tuscany with Canvas Holidays – Review
We’ve long been fans of family campsite holidays and have travelled many times with Canvas Holidays in the past, both before the children came along and with them. Up until this year we have only stayed in French campsites however after our amazing trip to Italy last year we wanted to go back, and this time […]
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Review – LUXURY Villa le Croci in Tuscany with Windows on Italy
What is about Tuscany that makes it such a special place? Maybe it’s the intoxicating smell of the lavender everywhere you go, the tingling of the warm sunshine on the back of your neck or the taste of the finest olive oil in the world. Whatever it is, once you visit Tuscany, it feels like […]
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Ringfort Stay Over at the Irish National Heritage Park – Review
Let me take you back, if I may, to the 1970s/80s and a children’s television programme called Mr Benn. In the show, Mr Benn leaves his house in Festive Road, walks to the fancy dress shop where the shopkeeper shows Mr Benn, along with his chosen costume, to the changing room and, once changed, Mr […]
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Talbot Suites Wexford – Review
Parents with more than two children will relate to the struggle to find affordable hotel accommodation for their family. Even when we can find one that will take us in a room as a family of five, we don’t really like staying in hotels as when we do, we end up spending the evening just […]
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Coasteering in Wexford – Review
At Saucepan Kids, we like to get out and about and take part in activities that push ourselves out of our comfort zone. Living by the Atlantic coast, we’ve always been keen on water sports so when the guys from Shielbaggan Outdoor Education Centre invited us to try coasteering, we had to go and try […]
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Family Day Out At Tayto Park – A Review
Yesterday we took ourselves off to Co. Meath to spend a day at Ireland’s only theme park and zoo, Tayto Park. We’d been once before and enjoyed it then but our kids were a lot younger so we wondered now how our older kids (aged 12, 12 and 14) would get on. It was a […]
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Acqua Village Waterparks Tuscany – Review
Follonica When we were in Italy last year we visited Aquafan water park in Rimini and we all had such a fun day, when we discovered that there was a water park near Parc Albatros, we made sure that we allocated a day to a visit there. We read on the website that it’s cheaper […]
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Review – LUXURY Villa le Silerchie in Tuscany with Windows on Italy
We arrived at Villa le Silerchie late in the afternoon tired from a day of travelling from the West of Ireland. I will never forget driving through the security gates, there was an audible gasp from everyone in the car. We had all seen the photos of the villa on the Windows on Italy website […]
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