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Travellling Creatively with Kids, or Why Manchester Rocks

Posted by Rhonda Carrier on Thursday, February 2, 2012, In : travel with children

The following post is based largely on a blog I wrote for Takethefamily.com in autumn 2011.

I’ve written before about the joys of ‘holidaying’ close to home, and about the pleasure of short breaks with kids. This year I’ve been out and about all over the north of England with my boys, on day-trips, overnighters or mini-breaks. With the help of our money-saving Family & Friends Railcard, the opportunities for cultural excursions within easy reach of home are almost unlimited. York, Leed...
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Family Holidays: an Oxymoron?

Posted by Rhonda Mary on Tuesday, March 2, 2010, In : travel with children

Having just returned, exhausted, from our latest family odyssey – the Netherlands – I ponder the words of my Takethefamily colleague Dea Birkett on her latest blog:

“I suppose every holiday doesn’t have to be an adventure. Does it?’”

I’m wondering whether, conversely, all holidays don’t change our lives, even if we don’t realise it at the time? Each time we go away, don’t we get to know ourselves and one another a little better? Doesn’t every trip, whether conceived as a...