Travelling with Kids – Adventure isn't just about the plane trips!
Riding in a Monster Truck is certain to be a Bucket List item for someone in your family. The very idea of driving straight over a terrain that typically stops other vehicles provides an interesting wave of excitement when you think about it. When I heard that there was a Monster Truck on the South …
Over the years we have been in the audience at many Circus performances, even a previous Cirque du Soleil. They have a certain rhythm, a certain predictability. I was expecting much of a muchness as we headed to the Entertainment Quarter at Moore Park to watch KOOZA by Cirque du Soleil. I humoured the kids, yes …
Ever wondered where museums hoard their antiquities and wonders that are not currently on exhibition? Have you ever dreamed about exploring these collections? Thanks to a collaboration between the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences (MAAS), Australian Museum (AM) and Sydney Living Museums, Sydneysiders can now answer this question with the opening of Museums Discovery Centre (MDC) …
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. …
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, …