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travelling with teenagers

  • Our Walt Disney World adventure

    Tweet Travelling with teenagers is not like travelling with small children: they are much more independent, they are even more strong-willed, they are basically vampires (they sleep most of the day, then they wake and want…

    February 23, 2016
  • The One Where I’m on TV

    Tweet So unless you’ve been hibernating all weekend you’ll know by now that me, English Mum and the Deathwish Child appeared on Channel 5 on Sunday morning. The programme was Making the Magic, a brilliant documentary…

    April 17, 2012
  • Disneyland Paris 20th anniversary celebrations

    Tweet Got a slightly sulky teenager? Take them to Disneyland Paris. We spent a fun-filled time there last weekend celebrating Disneyland Paris 20th anniversary and from the moment we arrived by Eurostar at Marne-la-Vallée …

    April 5, 2012
  • Ah Vienna – why the Austrian capital is great for kids

    Tweet ‘I can’t see the blood,’ my son said in a disappointed voice. ‘Where’s the blood?’ The blood in question was on the jacket Franz Ferdinand was wearing when he was assassinated, which as…

    February 24, 2012
  • Gamescom 2011 Day 2

    Tweet So after the excitement of the previous day anticpation levels from No 1 Son and the other kids (oh alright, and the grown-ups too *cough*) had reached fever pitch as we headed to…

    August 22, 2011
  • Gamescom 2011 Day 1

    Tweet This week I’ve been mostly offline because we were in Cologne, Germany at Gamescom 2011 – an enormous exhibition of all the new computer games and gadgets for the coming year. We were…

    August 20, 2011
  • Me, Dumbo and pride really does come before a fall

    Tweet   It was all going so well. There we were in Disneyland Paris, celebrating the launch of the Magical Moments Festival. We were having a brilliant time going on our favourite rides (including…

    April 4, 2011
  • Totally tropical paradise

    Tweet Try telling a teenager that they’re going on holiday for a week and you’ll probably get a reaction similar to the one I got when I ‘broke’ the news to my son that…

    January 15, 2011