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Broklands Museum
Travel Bites: a family day out at Brooklands Museum

Travel Bites: a family day out at Brooklands Museum

Having a husband with a passion for classic cars and motorbikes, we occasionally attend related, themed events and meetings. While sometimes I would rather stay home with the dog, other times it makes sense to make these a day out and make the most of them. One place we’ve visited a few times is Brooklands Museum, near Weybridge in Surrey. Yet we had never visited as a ‘family’; the Mini event seemed a good opportunity do such a thing, especially…

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Amber in the Jag - Visiting London with a dog
Visiting London with a dog

Visiting London with a dog

Dog friendly cities: London As I am finally planning my first journey to Italy by train, with Amber of course (why else would I spend two days in the heat of August trying to reach the beaches of Southern Italy?), I found myself researching how dog friendly Paris is, as we’ll be spending a few hours lay over on the way down and a night on the way back. As it turns out, Paris is not that dog friendly (and…

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Pastabites in NYC
Visiting Manhattan: Lower East Side

Visiting Manhattan: Lower East Side

Escape to New York After exactly two years (a time during which quite a lot happened!) I was finally able to return for a long weekend to one of my favourite cities, New York. With the very same bunch of friends of last time, I travelled solo for a few days baby, dog and husband free. Did I enjoy my time? Of course I did, and I rediscovered the pleasure of being alone too, as well as roaming the streets…

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Lanzarote
Lanzarote as a family holiday destination

Lanzarote as a family holiday destination

Baby friendly holiday in Lanzarote? Until now, my holidays (other than trips to Italy for regular breaks such as Christmas and August) have been in pretty exotic locations, usually with a lot of scuba diving thrown in. But life has changed a lot in the last year, and this time, the holiday requirements were a little different. Gone the super long haul flight, gone the high humidity, high heat temperatures, gone the fancy boutique hotel or basic barefoot dive resort….

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Pastabites in Lavenham - Afternoon tea
Travel bites: a few days in Lavenham, Suffolk

Travel bites: a few days in Lavenham, Suffolk

*** updated 2019 *** It is no secret to those who know me well that recently London has become a little unbearable for me. As much as I love the opportunities, the events, the culture and the friends I have, I hate the traffic, the noise, the dirt, the chicken bones on the floor (it should be an offence to litter with those!) and so forth. I was longing to spend a few days away, but somewhere we could take…

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