Food Travel
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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A visit to Eden Project in Cornwall with the kids – Review
We always wanted to visit Eden Project. It had been recommended to me by LOTS of people who said that if you’re ever down that way in the UK, you HAVE to visit. So, this Easter, we all headed to the world’s largest indoor rain forest for the day. Watch the video of our day […]
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Ladram Bay Holiday Park, Devon – Review
Luxury, tranquil and fun are not words I would have imagined I would be using to describe a holiday park on the South coast of England. However holidays parks have seriously moved on since I was a child. Gone are dark, pokey caravans (think Fr. Ted), noisy caravan parks and cheesy evening entertainment. Ladram Bay […]
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10 Family Travel Tips For Planning The Perfect Family Holiday
Thinking of planning a family holiday this year and not sure where to start, where to go or what to do? We think family holidays are vitally important. I read an interesting article recently where Britain’s leading child psychologist, Oliver James, said that ‘parents shouldn’t be wasting hundreds of pounds on toys, they should be […]
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