After the longest spell in the UK for over 16 years (nearly 13 months), we have broken the duck with a quick getaway to Paris - without the kids. I'll apologise for the brevity of this entry as there isn't too much we can write about what we got up to (Paris + no kids = ??????), and didn't do anything out of the ordinary either! Sally very cleverly won a return trip in a competition at work last summer - thanks "the Big Kick" - and we decided to wait until Hector was old enough to be left for a couple of days, which coincided with our 4th wedding anniversary too. Eurostar was dead easy - and very comfortable with standard premiere tickets.... St Pancras is a great departure point - Gare de Nord a ... read more

Ignoring all advice to take a local (European) summer holiday we decided to make the most of free air travel for Heidi whilst we can and went long haul to Cuba! It is a destination we nearly visited during our Central America trip some years back and is somewhere we have wanted to go to for a long time. We cheated slightly by booking an all inclusive but compromised with a few nights in Havana and also some trips from our resort into the interior - not quite backpacking - but with Heidi in tow we needed a bit of luxury and organisation! So, in true form Sally spent several hours on trip advisor to work out which hotel did the best buffet, found a good deal, upgraded our flights to Virgin Atlantic - and we ... read more

The last 6 months have been a bit of a blur with our little new addition and a few days away was the perfect way to slow down and relax. Neither of us had been to Prague before so seemed like a pretty good place to go - especially as it was to be Heidi's first overseas trip! We managed to make the most of the UK bank holiday extravaganza with Easter and the Royal Wedding meaning 3 days of annual leave turned into an 11 day break! After a lovely family lunch on Easter Sunday we headed to Luton Airport early Monday morning to catch our flight to Prague. Wizz Air was our chosen budget airline (not that cheap when you add a bag in the hold and Heidi - I thought Babies went for ... read more

19/08 - London/New York The long awaited opportunity to write a new blog was finally upon us, this hobby is becoming quite expensive! In order to keep things interesting for all our followers we had asked some friends to get married in America - just so we could go on a road trip around the “wild west” afterwards and fortunately they obliged! So in true form we had planned everything down to the last detail, flights - check, hotel for the first night - check, and that was it! To make things a bit more interesting we had also decided to move house the day before flying and just about remembered to keep our holiday things separate - details of that adventure to follow. I went off to work in the morning and left Sally to ... read more

Not having been away for a while and to coincide with our 1st anniversary as a married couple (and the Bank Holiday weekend) we took advantage of the kind offer from Jo and Paul to spend a weekend in Argentiere. The sales pitch was relatively easy, skiing in sunshine, sunbathing if we didn't feel like skiing and lots of tasty food thrown in, all in the beautiful Chamonix Valley and spacious homely apartment! (click on the link below, it might be available over the coming summer/winter but gets booked up quickly) Paul's Apartment Deal done and flights booked we left work on time on Friday evening and after a few delays at the airport (not the volcano this time) we got to Geneva and picked up the hire car! Paul was really chuffed when at the ... read more