Food Travel
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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Pristine Sistine – Vatican Tour Review with Walks of Italy
Right at the top of our to do list on the Rome leg of our tour of Italy, up there with the Colosseum, was the Vatican. More specifically was a visit to the Sistine Chapel to see Michelangelo’s masterpiece. We’d read a lot about the length of the queues to get into the Vatican and how busy […]
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How Parma ham is made
Ham, salt and air. That is all it takes to make Parma ham, or Prosciutto di Parma to give it its proper name. Sounds easy doesn’t it? Calling it easy though would be a huge disservice to the skill and mastery of the staff at Ruliano S.P.A. in Riano di Langhirano, near Parma, in the Emilia-Romagna province […]
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Welcome to Rome Twilight Tour Review – Walks of Italy
I have to admit that, in the days leading up to it, I wasn’t particularly looking forward to this evening walking tour – Rome Twilight City Stroll and Gelato Tasting with Walks of Italy. For starters, it was the first day of our tour of Italy and we were going to have to get up at 3:45am […]
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Venice Food Tour Review – Walks of Italy
As regular readers will be aware, at Saucepan Kids we love food and travel so what better during our tour of Italy than a food tour of Venice? Venice was the final stop on our tour and is renowned for its food so we teamed up with Walks of Italy to learn more about the […]
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Best of Venice and Doge’s Palace Tour Review – City Wonders
Debbie and I adore Venice. We had visited only two years before during Carnevale (when fancy dress and masks are the order of the day) for a weekend break without the children and fell in love with the place. So we’d been wanting to come back with the kids ever since. When we planned our […]
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Dark Rome Colosseum Tour Review – City Wonders
It was an early start on our third day in Rome on our Tour of Italy as we woke at 7.30 so we could take the 25 minute walk to the Colosseum for our Dark Rome tour with City Wonders. We would have loved to have taken the underground tour which includes access beneath the […]
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Best of Florence – City Wonders Tour Review
It was with mild trepidation that we arrived at 8:45 in the morning at the Piazza San Marco for our City Wonders Best of Florence walking tour. Not the kind of trepidation you might feel going to a job interview or the dentist – it was a holiday after all – but the worry that […]
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