Picture this. It's Boxing Day 2017, and while still recovering from the food coma of Christmas Day, you're leisurely scrolling through the list of discounted airfares and you find a deal to Hawaii that is SO GOOD you book it on the spot. (OK, maybe it was a few hours later once Mr SnS caught up with my enthusiasm). In fact those airfares were cheaper than flights to Bali in August - say … [Read more...]
HONG KONG: What To Do, Where to Eat, Where to Shop & Where to Stay
I was lucky enough to spend 6 nights in Hong Kong, or, as I like to call it, Honkers, last week. As someone who LOVES a big city and can spend weeks exploring them - NYC and London among my faves - I found plenty that was fabulous about it. It's unlike any city I've visited and when I've pondered why, I keep coming back to Hong Kong being a city of contrasts. There's the English influence … [Read more...]
33 Awesome Things to Do in China
Before my recent visit to China, it wasn't really on my radar. Sure I was interested in China - our three boys are learning Mandarin at school, we all love dumplings and I read Wild Swans and went through a Chinese women in fiction phase in the '90s - but I wasn't sure how I'd go actually travelling through China. Especially with kids. An opportunity to visit on a school tour got me … [Read more...]
Bali with Kids
Back in 2014, Mr SnS and I took our three boys, then aged 7, 5 and 2 - they were pretty little back then - to Bali for the first time. We had an awesome holiday - you can read about it in detail here - but, as is typical of this stage of life, our holiday reflected the pace of this exhausting and hands on stage. Our days were slower, punctuated by early starts, a day sleep, plenty of rest … [Read more...]
Family Holiday Tips, Destinations and Ideas – Part 2
Welcome to the second post in this series on Family Holidays - Ideas, Destinations and Tips (you can catch up with the first here) in which I've asked some of my favourite ladies on the interwebs for their hot tips and traps on all things Family Travel. Why this series I hear you ask? Well, for some us of us, family holidays can be a bit of a mixed bag. When they "work", they're awesome but … [Read more...]
Family Holiday Tips, Destinations & Ideas – Part 1
There's never a time when I'm not planning my next holiday. Whether's it's a weekend away with friends at a caravan park or a family holiday somewhere tropical, I'm always looking ahead to the next thing. I know holidays can be a good idea in theory but hard work in reality - especially when the kids are babies and toddlers - but I still persist. I like to have something to look forward … [Read more...]
