WIN an Outdoor Adventure with Steve Backshall and The Brave Bones Club

At the weekends you can often find us climbing trees like Tarzan, rummaging through fallen leaves looking for bugs and searching for fairies among the bluebells. We love the great outdoors as a family and if we aren't exploring forests and woods in the UK we are playing in sand and splash pools abroad, just like we were last week in Zante!

If you too enjoy the fun and fresh air of being outside this competition is probably ideal for you. Steve Backshall has teamed up with The Brave Bones Club, (an initiative set up by Cheestrings and Yollies) which encourages people to have safe but brave adventures and this is the perfect way to build confidence while making magical memories outside. 

Check out the video below for more details...

Family Fun at Greenwood Forest Park

Named the best family attraction in North Wales for the past 4 years, GreenWood Forest Park caught our eye while travelling around Snowdonia during April. Entry for the four of us would have been just under £40 so for a day of entertainment that's really good value. The setting is very natural and relaxing and dogs are welcome on site too which is certainly a bonus when on holiday with pets.

Aimed more so at younger children, the attraction has a combination of indoor and outdoor play areas plus some furry and feathered friends to see too. It really is a place of adventure, fun and confidence building with the challenges to get involved with. We began our day by going on the Green Dragon Coaster which is a people powered ride, the only world's only, where you can email the snap shot to yourself to print at home for just £1.50 at the end. I thought this was such a great idea!

There's No Such Thing As A Gruffalo...

As many children returned to school on Monday but the Mini Mes had a teacher training day, we decided to make the most of the beautiful empty woodland and check out the Gruffalo Trail.

Salcey is our most local forest and it's a lovely one too with a cafe, play area and a treetop walk to enjoy. With our discovery pass providing free car parking we like to call by as often as possible for some outdoor family fun. So, we popped the poochie in the car, as dogs are more than welcome, and we set off with our wellies to see what characters we could spot from the well loved story.

'A mouse took a stroll through the deep dark wood...'

Our Family Adventure with Eurocamp: Part 1

I'd heard many good things about Eurocamp with several friends returning year after year, so I was very excited to be invited to stay at a site of our choice to end the summer off nicely. I'd usually opt for a hot beach resort in a tropical location (to work on my tan and lounge by the pool of course) but I instead took this opportunity to explore Europe and to try somewhere a little different to the norm. After looking on the website at the 160 sites it was Birkelt, Larochette that really appealed to me. It's the only Eurocamp site available in Luxembourg and I was immediately drawn to it because it looked reasonably small and peaceful from the descriptions (426 pitches), yet it had enough entertainment and nearby attractions to keep us occupied for the Sunday-Friday break. 

I wanted to be able to relax and have beautiful surroundings without the risk of being bored. 

This was just perfect for us.

Silent Sunday

    

Adventure - The Gallery

Having just finished reading The unlikely Pilgrim of Harold Fry, the first of my 50 books to read this year, the topic of adventure was quite appropriate for this weeks Gallery theme. Harold finds himself walking over 600 miles wearing a suit and yachting shoes (not quite so appropriate!) to visit a friend that he hasn't seen for 20 years who is terminally ill. His adventure takes him across fields, through hedgerows and along busy roads to reach his goal.

Although we enjoy the great outdoors too, the biggest adventure I have experienced with the Mini Mes so far is our first holiday abroad as a family to Cyprus.

The new foods, the heat and humidity, the different language and even the flight itself was a big adventure for us as a family, but particularly for the Mini Mes who had never been away from English soil before.

I love how Minxy is trying to be cool in her swimwear and their expressions at seeing such huge drinks with flags in!

I can't wait to fly away to somewhere hot again soon... the sooner the better.


What has been your biggest adventure?

The theme this week is Adventure.