Travelling with Kids – Adventure isn't just about the plane trips!
There’s something exciting about fire engines and fire fighters that draws our attention very early on in life, often from toddlerhood. Both Striker and Sunshine have been a little obsessed at different times and we’ve often found ourselves exploring the local fire station. Despite this, the Museum of Fire didn’t appear on our radar until …
“Everything is awesome, when you’re living out a dream“, or at least that’s what I like to think Striker was humming as we arrived at Legoland Discovery Centre Melbourne for the first time. You see, both my kids are LEGO addicts, and finally arriving at Chadstone was akin to arriving at the centre of the …
Usually on display at the Shemanovskiy Museum in Yama, Lyuba the 42,000 year old baby woolly mammoth from Siberia has headed down into the Southern Hemisphere for the first time every. Frozen and preserved by lactic acid-producing bacteria, she is the most complete and best preserved woolly mammoth ever discovered. We couldn’t resist heading into Sydney …
The Mother Teresa Memorial House With Kids (??????-???? ?? ????? ??????) It would surprise most readers to discover that Mother Teresa was born in Skopje, Macedonia where she lived before leaving at the age of 18 in 1928 to join the Sisters of Loreto at Loreto Abbey in Rathfarnham, Ireland. In 2009 the Macedonian government opened the Mother Teresa Memorial House in …
Tokyo Samurai Museum With Kids Having practiced martial arts since he was three years old, the world of the Samurai and Japanese Martial Arts is one of my son’s obsession. When he heard my husband and I discussing a possible trip to Japan, his eyes instantly sparkled and he whispered “can we go and see …
When rain washed our outdoor adventure plans away on one of our Tokyo days, we decided that we may as well do what we do in Sydney on such days and head to the museum. We chose the National Museum of Nature and Science in Ueno Park. Tokyo’s National Museum of Nature and Science was open in 1871 and offers an amazing collection …