Today we ventured to Gibside in County Durham. We were greeted by a VERY welcoming host who told us that Gibside was extremely family friendly and all about exploring the great outdoors with different activities on every week. She carefully explained pushchair friendly routes around the grounds and gave Harry his own adventure booklet. We started our day in Strawberry Castle play area which is one of the best parks I think I've been to. ...

Craster is a small fishing village in Northumberland famous for it's smoked kippers! It is out mission to explore Northumberland this year and with blue skies above us, we decided to pay a visit. We arrived just after noon with 5 very hungry bellies! There were 3 main choices for lunch:- The jolly fisherman which looked like a friendly country pub with lovely fresh seafood platters and crab sandwiches on the menu, A little cafe serving homemade s...

We visited Wallington hall in Northumberland for the first time this weekend. We primarily visited as they had a special event on in which the premises were invaded by Roman's. Our first part of the day was taken up with Roman activities - we bought the kids some Roman helmets so they could get into the swing of things then wandered around a Roman camp admiring traditional crafts, we met a real life Roman soldier and tried on his helmet and shield and were amaze...