The half term holidays are rapidly approaching (meanwhile I am finding it hard to believe Lydia has been a school child over a month already!) and so I’ve put together this list of places to go and things to do in & around Birmingham this Autumn half term. With Halloween coming up, a lot of …
While we were staying with my parents during the summer, we visited the Tamar Otter & Wildlife Centre in North Cornwall. It is a wonderful family friendly place to visit, with lots of different animals to see. The grounds of the sanctuary are really beautiful, and they do several talks about their otters and also …
On Sunday morning we headed over to Merry Hill to explore Quest – a recreation centre aimed at all ages, built into the shopping centre.
As part of our role as ambassadors for the Birmingham Sea Life Centre, we have been given Sea Life annual passes for our whole family, so we are able to visit as much as we like. The great thing about the Sea Life annual pass is that it gets you admission to all of the …
On Friday afternoon, we headed to the intu Merry Hill shopping centre to check out their “Elf School” Father Christmas experience. Georgie and Lydia were joined by Georgie’s best friend Sophie and they were all very excited to be on an outing together! We ate some lunch then headed straight to the Elf School.
Ad disclosure: We were provided with free tickets in order to experience & blog about Hatton’s Enchanted Christmas Kingdom event. This post reflects my honest opinion on our day. We were invited back to Hatton Adventure World so that we could check out the Enchanted Christmas Kingdom event, and we went along on Sunday to take …
Yesterday we spent the morning at a local Brewers Fayre “Pub Restaurant” to celebrate the opening of the chain’s first “Play at Brewers Fayre” facility. The new soft play area at The Guild pub at Bromsgrove is the next step in their partnership with Beano, whose characters already adorn the kids menu.
We visited Cadbury World last weekend to check out their Christmas Celebration Weekends, and had a fantastic day. We are very local so it only took us 5 minutes to get there in the car. Parking is plentiful and free, but if you are travelling by train the Bournville station is just a short walk away.
On Saturday afternoon, we headed into Birmingham City Centre to watch the Disney on Ice show at the NIA. It was FANTASTIC.
We parked up in the NIA car park, and found the queue & entrance easily. Our tickets were checked as we entered and our bag searched. We found our seats easily, with the help of one of the many stewards that were dotted around the arena. The NIA is undergoing a refurbishment at the moment, which is nearly complete, and the new chairs were comfy and the loos much improved.
Samsung kindly sent us a Galaxy K Zoom smartphone to try out, along with a family ticket to Chessington World of Adventures, so that we could have a day out to test the 10x zoom camera on the phone. We invited my sister & her family to join us for a proper family day out, …
