Travelling with Kids – Adventure isn't just about the plane trips!
With a plethora of free things to do in Canberra with kids, it continues to be one of our favourite places to visit as a family. In our opinion, it is Australia’s most underrated city to explore with a bounty of experiences awaiting the kids to experience. Canberra boasts numerous FREE world-class museums, galleries, and …
A visit to Canberra just won’t be the same without a visit to the Royal Australian Mint with kids. A chance to look up Ramint coins and notes just can’t be missed, with many valuable and rare Australian coins on display to see and learn about. Join a free guided tour and learn all about …
Canberra ACT, long thought of solely as a place full of parliamentary visits, has become Australia’s hot travel destination for families, offering a plethora of activity, accommodation and dining options to suit every budget. There’s a bevy of things to do in Canberra with Kids that you will enjoy too! Every time we visit our …
Whilst the Fountain of Youth is a legend, I strongly believe that trying new things helps keep us young. Well, young at heart. On each of our travel adventures I like to seek out new experiences for our family. Sometimes I find these quite challenging, especially if heights and speed are involved. When the kids …
Travel was redefined for our family when my children arrived. Rather than the two of them fitting into our routines and travel plans, it appeared that we would be following their routines and that our adventures would predominatly centre around them as well. It made us happier, our travels a whole lot calmer and life extremely joyful. For that …
The locals of every town or city you visit are likely to hold close a whole lot of insider knowledge about where to eat, explore and even sleep which tourists are unlikely to be privy. Seeking this out can take a little strategy as well as time. However, on our recent trip to Canberra we discovered …
The Australian War Memorial in Canberra commemorates the Australians who have died in war and is a vehicle for assisting us to remember, interpret and understand the Australian experience of war and its enduring impact on Australian society. Dedicated to ensuring the generations of today and into the future remember, it is more than a shrine of …
One of the downsides of growing up is that the playspaces that amused our children as toddlers and preschoolers start to wane. Spaces with more concrete for scooters or flat fields for ball games start to be sought, with the playgrounds of their younger years no longer truly functional for their size. I was hopeful that the National …
Every moment of every day we are creating memories with our children. Some of them will stick only for a day or two before they float off into the ether. Others, the very precious ones, will remain vividly within their memory banks. A visit to Cockington Green Gardens in Canberra thirty odd years ago is a …
The Australian Institute of Sport was at the very top of my son’s bucket list when we began planning our spring holiday to Canberra. With aspirations to one day play soccer for Australia, he felt that it was the perfect time to become familiar with the grounds where he may one day play (kids!). A little …