Rievaulx

Rievaulx Terrace vs Rievaulx Abbey – with kids!

Nestled into the sleepy hills of the North Yorkshire countryside lies the charming village of Rievaulx where there’s both Rievaulx Abbey and Rievaulx Terrace. One is owned by English Heritage and the other by National Trust. These places are distinctive…
Museo de ninos

Balls Galore, Museo de Los Ninos, Guatemala

Whilst we really like Guatemala, Guatemala city just didn’t appeal. With 12m inhabitants, traffic jams and queues everywhere, a bad reputation for (tourist) violence and not that much to see or do, it seemed like just a stop-over gap whilst…
Ciucas

The strange shapes of the Ciucas mountains

Autumn was fast approaching, Brasov had its first sprinkling of snow, the trees were turning from lush green to that orangey-browny colour, it was freezing cold and I still had the Ciucas mountains and the bears to visit before we…
Edenland

Edenland: Want to go zip lining in Romania?

When you think of Romania, the first image that your brain conjures up is definitely not zip lining. Right!? So imagine our surprise when we found out that Romania has an adventurous zip lining park on the outskirts of Bucharest.…
Sibayak

How to trek Sibayak Volcano with kids ALONE

As we had no car (stupid mistake) and no mode of transport in Berastagi, Sumatra we decided to hire a tour guide to hike us up the active Sibayak Volcano, visit a ghost town near Sinabung and take us for…