Things to do in Shrewsbury

Shrewsbury is a little historic English market town set in the beautiful countryside between Birmingham and mid-Wales. It is just 9 miles (14 km) from the Welsh border and about halfway along a north-south line running from the Wirral peninsula to the Bristol Channel. It is the County Town of Shropshire. It’s as well Nick’s […]

Best Free London Museums for Kids

Although known as one of the world’s most expensive travel destinations and one of the most visited cities in the world, London still has plenty of free things to do.  That includes the kind of London Museums that have the kids bright eyed and excited. Knowing that most of these are national and municipal institutions […]

Charity Shops Shrewsbury

Are you trying to minimise our impact on Planet Earth, reduce our usage of plastic, packaging, energy and water?  We are.  It’s not always easy – but one of the simplest things we can all do is to reuse things that other people have bought new and then discarded.  This saves all the manufacturing and […]

A Farm in London? Is This Possible? – Mudchute City Farm

Farm in London London for me is a city with countless (free!) museums, street art performance and office people in white shirts, well-fitted suits and freshly polished shoes. I never thought that in all of this I could find a farm in London. Mudchute Park and Farm. Mudchute Park We found Mudchute city farm and […]

Camping in October

I don’t usually sleep in a bobble hat, but usually, I don’t sleep in a van either; especially in October. Camping in October in the UK seemed crazy. But we wanted to show the girls a bit of England, and I couldn’t resist the invitation from Quirky Campers to try one of their vans, so […]