Travelling with Kids – Adventure isn't just about the plane trips!
Leah 
My inner geek was first revealed in public way back at the turn of the millennium when I headed to Melbourne so I could meet James Marsters aka Spike at a Buffy the Vampire Slayer convention. I’ve so far sheltered the kids from my true geekiness but decided that this year was the year to divulge a little of this at their …
Sydney has suffered periods of time where the city was rife with disease. Smallpox, typhoid, Spanish Influenza and even the Bubonic Plague scarred and wiped out large portions of the population as they swept over the colony. It was scary time where the medical interventions of the time had little impact of the disease once …
In the mid 1980s, Woodend Primary School in central Victoria developed a program where Grade 4 students travelled to a ‘farm school’ for a semester. For those 6 months, the students were immersed in a rural curriculum where the day saw them tending to their plot within the vegetable garden, caring for the farm animals and …
Reading The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert was all it took to convince me that I needed to pay more attention to the plants around me, even moss. When I discovered the existence of the Australian PlantBank I knew I had to visit, even more so when I realised that it had partnered with Kew …
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” ? Dr. Seuss Reading and travel are indescribably linked. Passionate readers know that the careful selection of a good book is the cheapest way to travel, enabling you to travel to faraway lands, even magical lands with …
Up early on a Saturday morning and wishing the laundry, dusting, vacuuming and all those other domestic chores would disappear? I’ve found the perfect solution. Dress the kids, herd them out to the car and head straight to The Picnic Burwood for breakfast. Sure, sure….you may find everything waiting for you when you get back home, …
When news started flooding my social media that Disney’s Aladdin the Musical was heading to Sydney all the way from Broadway, I was overcome with nostalgia. In my early adolescence, Aladdin was one of the first movies I watched at the movie theatre….without my parents. Each and every song is committed to memory. I may …
Australia’s earliest Aboriginal Dreamtime legends tell of the first Australians arriving by canoes from islands to the north of our continent around 50,000 years ago. Some 48 thousand years later, Dutch and English sailors started to arrive. By 1788, the first European arrivals settled (or rather, invaded). What each group had in common was a strong affinity to the water. …
Art Galleries are often viewed as adult spaces where children must be kept on a tight rein if they do somehow find themselves visiting. Immediately, upon walking into a gallery, children are told not to touch, to whisper, to quietly walk, all for fear of them intruding into this adult realm and time with the masterpieces. …
A number of talented chefs have packed their bags and left Sydney, building thriving cafes and restaurants in rural towns further afield. Just beyond the Blue Mountains, Bathurst is becoming a foodie paradise with a plethora of amazing cafes and restaurants now serving gastronomical delights that will have you heading back on long weekends. Bathurst has become a …
Through Monster Jam trucks, Adam Anderson is living the dream. The dual Monster Jam World Finals Champion has continued the family legacy, hopping behind the wheel of his father’s truck GraveDigger and travelling the world with his sons at his heel. Today the Kid Bucket List is sitting down with Adam to talk about Monster Trucks, …
During the later part of the winter school holidays we headed off to the Sydney Opera House to watch Jack and the Beanstalk. Both T and I were super excited to introduce the kids to its stage adaptation having both viewed it as children ourselves. Nothing could quite prepare us for what we were to …
Singin’ in the Rain splashed into Sydney’s Lyric Theatre over the weekend after a wildly successful sell-out season in the West-End and a roaring debut in Australia at Melbourne’s Her Majesty’s Theatre. Thanks to Nuffnang, we were in the audience for the preview night and what a night it was! As many of you would …