Day Out – The Places We Will Go

Sudbury Hall – Derbyshire

Wed, 16 Jan 2019 07:38:06 +0000

We last visited Sudbury Hall about three years ago and thought seeing as it is fairly close to us and the kids would have forgotten all about our last visit that we would visit again and share with you …. This is a little atypical for National Trust (NT) places…

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Biddulph Grange Garden – Staffordshire

Fri, 11 Jan 2019 14:10:06 +0000

This weekend we visited the National Trust’s Biddulph Grange Garden. This National Trust property is quite well hidden on the north side of Stoke and while it is certainly worth a visit the journey for us went through what must be one of the most severely run-down areas of the…

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Shugborough Estate – Staffordshire

Tue, 06 Nov 2018 14:53:31 +0000

Beautiful and interesting: little more really needs to be said. While this blogpost will provide paragraphs and pictures to help you reach the same conclusion, I am sure my literary and photographic skill will really not do it justice. Save yourself some time and get in the car and just…

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Lydford Gorge – Devon

Tue, 18 Sep 2018 11:29:24 +0000

Lydford Gorge is steep-sided river gorge nestled on the western edge of Dartmoor owned by the National Trust. James had heard about it from a friend at work so we decided that on our way to Cornwall we would make a detour. We drove through Dartmoor National Park and took…

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Eden Project – Cornwall

Mon, 17 Sep 2018 11:17:28 +0000

We spent the last week of the summer holidays down in Cornwall. We hadn’t been to Cornwall since before the youngest two were born so were really looking forward to taking them down to explore. One thing that we had been wanting to do since it opened was to visit…

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Sherwood Pines – Nottinghamshire

Thu, 02 Aug 2018 08:15:15 +0000

Nottinghamshire venues just aren’t safe from the Places We Will Go. Today was the turn of Sherwood Pines. A large area of… wait for it: pine laden forest. Although we had been before (without the kids), to try out seg-waying for my 40th we had not returned since. Our visit today…

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Yorkshire Sculpture Park – West Yorkshire

Tue, 31 Jul 2018 20:03:07 +0000

I took the day off work last Friday so we could spend some quality family-time with the kids. We thought we would try to follow the great day we had at the sculpture park in Devon. Our target: Yorkshire Sculpture Park – a 500 acre outdoor art gallery just off…

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Thor’s Cave and Wetton Hill Walk

Thu, 26 Jul 2018 09:36:17 +0000

Last Friday James took the day off so we decided to go and do a bit of exploring. I had seen some photos on Instagram of Thor’s Cave so really wanted to visit. We didn’t really have a planned walk organised, we just decided we would find where would be…

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Broomhill Sculpture Garden – North Devon

Thu, 19 Jul 2018 12:34:57 +0000

A blistering hot day, a cool breeze brushes by and we arrive in a shaded car park at the bottom of a heavily wooded hill side. The car park by any standard was not particularly abnormal, well except for 2 of the largest most impressive gate posts. The posts 15-20ft…

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Coastal Walk – Croyde Bay to Putsborough Sands

Thu, 05 Jul 2018 13:31:11 +0000

When we were away in North Devon last week we decided we would walked from Croyde Bay to Putsborough Sands via Baggy Point. Every time we have been to Croyde Bay we have walked to Baggy Point but never gone further round to Putsborough, so this time seeing as we…

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