Travelling with Kids – Adventure isn't just about the plane trips!
While a visit to the amazing African continent is just out of my family’s reach right now, introducing my children to the animals that roam the savannah is indeed possible thanks to the Werribee Open Range Zoo. Situated 35 kilometres west of Melbourne’s city centre, the zoo is a not-for-profit conservation organisation that focuses predominately on African species. It was …
Back in November, National Geographic released their Best of the World List for 2016. Whilst not one Australian destination made it to the list, a number of sites that we have visited with the kids were mentioned as well as some spots that I would love to visit in the near future. At the top for …
Melbourne is a vibrant city with the bonus of having a multitude of hidden delights awaiting your discovery. It was only last year that I heard about the Collingwood Children’s Farm. Suddenly it was appearing in my social media news feed with many of my Melbourne based friend’s regularly visiting and singingits praises. T and I didn’t …
The school holidays of my childhood are not full of the travel adventures that my own children are experiencing. It was fairly typical for my parents to be working and for me, being the eldest, to supervise my two younger brothers. We were fortunate to live on a small rural property where we created our …
Way back in 1986, my family settled in Woodend, Victoria after living in Darwin and Tasmania. I started a new primary school and for the very first time visited Melbourne zoo. It was the perfect year for an introduction to the site with the Butterfly House, the first every built in the Southern Hemisphere and …
Truth be told, I usually shy away from any theatre production that promises laughter because they very rarely meet my expectations. For this reason, I’m glad I didn’t realise that Richard Higgins & Matthew Kelly are a comedy duo when I headed off to see their production The Listies Ruin Christmas at the Sydney Opera House with …
As the calendar rolls over to December, the atmosphere develops a bubbling air of excitement as we move towards Christmas. It has always been my favourite time of year. The streetscape changes in my neighbourhood as lights begin to flicker along verandas and “Santa Please Stop Here!” signs appear in gardens. If only we lived in a …
Last year we posted our very first Yearly Subscription Sign Up roundup. Many of you have returned again and again to check out our recommendations and to source gift ideas for the kids in your life who have everything. This year we thought we would expand the list for the ultimate Gift Subscription Boxes for …
In between our discussions on LEGO, Super Heroes and Super-Villains are regularly the topic of conversation at our place. We’re all a little obsessed. News that an entire exhibition focused on Superheroes made of LEGO was arriving in Sydney made us all a little giddy. It wasn’t long after it officially opened that we found …
History exhibits are often presented in a way that is largely inaccessible to kids. The focus is on artefacts that they can’t touch, wordy descriptions with a plethora of dates and lots of “no flash photography” signage. I’m passionate about history and seek out opportunities that will engage my kids in the narrative of those before …
There are moments each day where I catch a glimpse of a still image in a magazine, on the net or even on the back of a bus, and wanderlust overwhelms me. I start to daydream about a spontaneous trip to that very destination….. Recently T suggested that I should create a “Places We Could Go” list …
Riding a bike is a skill, once learned, that is rarely lost. Learning how to ride is the difficult part. When I was a kid I had neither a balance bike nor training wheels. I pushed my new bike out onto our lawn and went from there. The beauty of living in the country, right? …
A few weeks ago now I received an invitation to attend an Instameet in Sydney to celebrate Qantas’ 95th birthday. A Qantas Instameet! I had no idea what that actually meant and had to immediately google instameet so I could get my head around what I would signing up for if I agreed to attend. Armed …