Travelling with Kids – Adventure isn't just about the plane trips!
California has boasted a culturally and linguistically diverse population for as long as it has been inhabited. Pre-Columbus, 70 distinct groups of Native Americans called this state home. By 1770, Spanish missionaries began establishing 21 Californian missions to convert the indigenous population to Christianity. On our family trip to California, we decided we had to …
There is no avoiding the Hollywood Walk of Fame when you’re in Los Angeles. Since 1958 when it was established, it has been a landmark that almost everyone is familiar. What you may not know is that it spans 5.6 km in total across two sections. Just like you’ll see in Pretty Woman, some of the areas are not …
The best way to guarantee a successful holiday is to ensure that everyone has an opportunity to plan adventures that they will love. Before flying to California, T and I sat down and wrote three Bucket Lists: all the things I would love to see; all the things T would love to see and all …
Did you ever read Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and wish that you too could visit a chocolate factory? I bet you did. I dreamed of stumbling across a Everlasting Gobstopper or Exploding Candy (both which would have been through rigorous testing by the Oompa Loompa’s and ready for safe consumption). A trip to …
For tens of thousands of years natural asphalt has been seeping up from the ground in what is now urban Los Angeles. Around Hancock Park the seepage has been enough to create areas large enough to trap animals who have been unable to escape and have perished, sinking into the asphalt which has soaked into their …
For the last year or so T and I have been creating our bucket list for our adventures in California. When it came to planning the Los Angeles leg of our trip I had at some point wistfully remarked that a stay at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel would be magic not actually thinking that it …