Travelling with Kids – Adventure isn't just about the plane trips!
Looking for a new zoo to visit? Perhaps you are heading to Australia for the first time and wondering which Australian zoo or wildlife park is closest to your accomodation. Maybe you’re just after somewhere different to explore. When talking about Australian Zoos and Wildlife Parks with kids you are spoilt for choice. There are …
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 …
On our trip to Fremantle we made a pit stop at the Fremantle Market – fremantlemarkets.com.au where we were promised a foodie heaven and an animal farm to keep the kids busy. Oh my how we were spoilt! There were so many options we didn’t know where to start. Whilst the markets are considerably smaller than …
In all honesty I am not a social butterfly and even on holidays I am not always comfortable approaching strangers unlike T who charms just about anyone as soon as they meet him just by smiling. I have learned that when travelling and searching for a top place to eat it doesn’t hurt to ask a …
I have been told that you haven’t really experienced Margaret River, Western Australia if you haven’t stopped by the Margaret River Chocolate Company. With visions of a Charlie Bucket experience, we enthusiastically added it to our itinerary and made it one of our first stops in the early morning. Who doesn’t like chocolate for morning tea? …
My children’s godmother, in a moment of spontaneity, booked a trip for all of us to head down to Margaret River on our recent holiday to Western Australia. It was a magical trip with so many different places to see and food to sample. Oh my gosh the food…..we sampled so many yummy things! Something that …
Science is an incredibly exciting field of study allowing children right up to adults who make it their occupation to build and organise knowledge through developing hypothesis which we then test to develop our own idea of how things work in our universe. Obviously there are many branches of science. For those of us who have …
Eating out with kids can be lots of fun if you choose your restaurant or cafe well. Don’t choose where to dine simply on their kids menus, we rarely order from these anymore preferring to order a main which we can divide between our two or an entrée each. No, look for restaurants with space, great …
Spending so much time near the water is certain to eventually lead to a bunch of questions from the kids. “Are there sharks in there?” “Where do the fish go to sleep?“ “Who rides the seahorses?“ Of course I never have the answers to all their questions. I freely admit this when I don’t know, …
I must admit that The Western Australian Maritime Museum wasn’t on our original Fremantle itinerary, but when we spotted we quickly detoured and went inside. We were quickly rewarded for our spontaneity. The Fremantles Maritime Museum houses a number of exhibits which explore Western Australia’s long relationship with the sea. We were lucky to visit on the second Tuesday of …
In mid 2013 I found myself reading The Light Between Oceans by Australian author M.L. Stedman. Set on a remote island sitting between the Indian and Southern Ocean, the novel explores the story of a lighthouse keeper and his wife who face a life-changing moral dilemma. It is a stunningly beautiful book, but is also very …
Have you ever wanted to walk out into the ocean into the horizon? Ever wondered how it would feel to walk that far without getting wet? We’ve walked along many a jetty here in Australia but they are largely only a hundred metres or so long. Not in Brusselton, WA. Here the jetty is an …
It all started with an innocent question: “how is money made, Daddy?” which led to the inclusion of this particular item on our Bucket List. When visiting Perth, WA we added a visit to the Perth Mint to our itinerary- it was sure to answer many of the questions our two kidlets had about coins and …