Ad disclosure: As Sea Life Ambassadors we have been given annual passes for the purpose of blogging about our visits to the centre. We headed over to the Sea Life Centre in Birmingham to check out the Spooky Seas event they have on this half term – Halloween themed fun with facts about the spookiest …
We were invited to go along to the Jurassic Kingdom event at The Birmingham Botanical Gardens, and the girls were excited to go and see all of the dinosaurs on display!
Last weekend we headed in to the City centre to visit Santa in his grotto at the Bullring Shopping Centre. The grotto is actually located outside the main shopping centre; in St Martin’s Square. From the outside, I have to admit it’s not that enthralling – a couple of white tents, a few white deer statues, and some little Christmas trees in pots, finished off with a North Pole signpost & a “Santa’s Grotto” banner attached to the fence.
A few weeks ago we visited Wonderful World of Trains & Planes, a fairly new attraction that can be found in Birmingham city centre. It took us just a few minutes walk from the Snow Hill car park which is a favourite of ours, as it is reasonably priced at weekends.
Birmingham is a great city to live in, if you want to keep your kids well entertained every weekend. It’s a fantastic place to visit as a family, too. The big attractions like Cadbury World and the Sea Life Centre are great, but they will always top the lists for “places to visit in Birmingham” and usually require pre-booking, especially at busy times.
I’ve been asked by Travelodge to talk about some of the more overlooked places to visit; those that are dismissed due to their size, location, or just because they aren’t quite as well known; Birmingham’s Hidden Gems.
At the weekend we headed to Bournville to join a scarecrow hunt! It was time for the annual Bournville Scarecrow Festival, and the girls were really excited to find all of the scarecrows. The theme of the Festival was “favourite children’s stories” and we easily recognised almost all of the wonderful scarecrows. The scarecrows are all …
During the Summer holidays, we were invited along to Strada in the Mailbox for lunch with a bunch of other lovely bloggers. We got to try out the set menu, along with the kids menu – and the girls even got to try their hand at pizza making with their chef!
We have been having a great time this Summer hunting for owls all over Birmingham. With another few weeks left before the Owls leave their posts, we are determined to find some more! This Sunday we are going to head into the City Centre to attend the Pirate event at the Sea Life Centre, and …
Last weekend we headed to one of our local green spaces (Birmingham is full of them), that runs alongside the Worcester and Birmingham Canal, and spent a couple of hours at the first annual Kings Norton Canal Festival. The (true) saying goes that Birmingham has more miles of canal than Venice… of course, Birmingham also has …
This week we visited the Birmingham Wildlife Conservation Park, formerly known as the Nature Centre, for Georgie’s Pre-School trip. Lydia got to come too – she’ll be starting at the pre-school in September for three mornings a week so it was lovely to see her playing with some of the kids she’ll be going with …
