I love travelling and discovering new places with my little family but one thing I learned after our recent trip to Milan is that our holidays now need to planned slightly differently to when the kids were younger.With Miss Frugal now at the grand old age of 14 and her brother slightly younger at 12, we've been through the years where they got along like a house on fire and actually enjoyed each other's company and the (thankfully) short phase where they hated the sight of each other. We're now in the much more comfortable phase where they manage to tolerate each other for the most part … [Read more...]
Visiting the San Siro Stadium in Milan….
The minute I booked our little trip to Milan, Master Frugal was on his phone searching for information about how to get booked on a tour of the San Siro Football Stadium.He's football mad just like his Dad so a visit to the San Siro was naturally the first thing he thought about when we mention Milan and it was top of my list of to-do things when I was planning our trip as I knew how much they would both enjoy a tour of the iconic stadium. To be fair, we've done a few stadium tours as a family in our time (Old Trafford, Nou Camp, Barcelona, Anfield and the Riverside) and we always enjoyed … [Read more...]
Easyjet Vs British Airways….
I'm all for saving money when we travel but I must admit that I was very reluctant to book a trip with Easyjet because I've heard such bad reports about them in the past. In the end we booked through them for our trip to Milan because the price was literally unbeatable.I was very pleasantly surprised with our Easyjet experience and having traveled with British Airways recently, I thought I'd share my experience with you so you can decide whether to book your flights with Easyjet who are known as a 'budget' airline or their more premium competitors, British Airways. Cost First of all, … [Read more...]
Is a New York Pass worth the money?
Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links which mean that I might get paid but all products or services that I recommend are ones that I highly recommend. I won’t put anything on this page that I haven’t verified and/or personally used and I won't ever be less than honest with my opinion.This post about the New York Pass is probably only going to be of interest to someone who is planning a trip to New York so if that's not you then I'm really sorry but it might make interesting reading anyway and I promise I'll throw in a picture of a cake at some point just for you. ;-)So, the … [Read more...]
Essential New York Photos – 5 of my favourite photo spots in New York….
Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links which mean that I might get paid if you make a purchase but all products or services that I recommend are ones that I highly recommend. I won’t put anything on this page that I haven’t verified and/or personally used and I won't ever be less than honest with my opinion.Before we went to New York I had high hopes of taking beautiful artistic photos to keep forever as memories of our trip - you know the kind of photos I mean, the ones that are so good that people look at them and say 'that's amazing, you should definitely get that one printed … [Read more...]
The Gardens at Wynyard Hall in the Spring….
Last weekend we decided to leave the kids at home in bed for a cheeky Sunday morning lie in and head to Wynyard Hall Gardens to have a look around as we keep hearing about how they're a lovely place to spend a few hours.I had a look on the website before we set off and found that there's lots to do there - there's a Walled Garden, a Marquee Garden, an Edible Garden, a Victorian-inspired Glasshouse, a little Farm Shop and a Café serving yummy looking homemade cake. I think it was the cake that swung it for Mr Frugal as he's not really a wander around a garden kind of guy - he says it … [Read more...]
