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Travelling with the Kids, In-Car Entertainment 1

This entry was posted in Car Competition Entry Holiday Tots100 Travel and tagged boys Car Cornwall Devon DVD Jen journey kids play Wales on

@travelsupermkt  #JollyJourneys Competition with @Tots100    I read on Tots100 that TravelSupermarket are after travelling tips for keeping little folks busy in the back seats on long journeys. Well, this is right up my street.   We drive to places like Wales, Devon or Cornwall for holidays. We are normally going camping, so the boot is often pretty full.  Where we drive to, Cornwall On the longer journeys we have in car DVD players we recently purchased, but we only take a few films. Its for boredom relief if we get stuck in traffic, rather than the main entertainment option.   Often we talk for the first hour or so. Car Snap is Jen’s favourite game. This means he watches every car we pass and shouts snap as fast as he can if he sees the same make or model. When we are in Daddy’s car we don’t allow the colour […]

TravelBug competition

This entry was posted in Competition Entry Travel and tagged Greece outdoors prizes son travel win on

Good afternoon folks, My son has entered the Content and Calm travel bug competition on facebook to try to win us a holiday to Greece, sadly it is a voting competition and he would love any votes please. If you go into that app then look at “gallery” you should be able to find our entry. The competition is to be a “travel bug reporter” which means if he gets first place we will go to Greece together for him to review, or if he’s one of the 9 runners up we would get sent on a family outing to somewhere like Legoland or Cattle Country. We sat outdoors and talked about our camping holidays, as shivering outside seems appropriate for a camping review! Sadly the promoter extended the voting closing date until September which is really a very long time, so I thought I would share it on my […]

Sea life center by night

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On Friday we drove up the motorway in the snow for a Christmas VIP evening courtesy of @visitSEALIFE on Twitter. My boys loved it, especially Layla the leoapard shark, and “dressing up shark” which was an employee dressed in a big blue shark costume. My eldest kept threatening to rugby tackle him, Erm, no! Thanks Sea Life, kids loved it. Layla the Leopard shark.  Little fish swimming around a rusty captains wheel, like on an old shipwreck. These are rays with smaller fish and giant lily pad type leaves.