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My childhood consisted mostly of me tearing around my inner-city neighbourhood with the other local kids, free to roam and explore on our bikes and scooters. I walked to and from school and ran errands for my parents, all utterly unsupervised. And I lived! Flash forward something something years and my kids have a childhood […] Read more…
Built on the shores of Lake Wakatipu and flanked by the utterly remarkable Remarkables mountain range, Queenstown is busting at the seams with fun for kids of all ages. Whether you want to ski it, jump it, raft it, climb it, zip it, thrill it. chill it or eat it, there’s something for every family […] Read more…
I’d heard so much about the award winning True South Dining Room at The Rees in Queenstown, which made me a little worried, because sometimes these places just don’t live up to expectation. I needn’t have worried because True South Dining Room is everything it’s cracked up to be and so much more. During the […] Read more…
The mere mention of a visit to New Zealand is enough to get my quarter kiwis in a tizz, having become raving fans of the place last year on a visit to the South Island’s Dunedin. And they’re so obsessed with below zero temperatures they’re practically Elsa. So you can imagine the reaction when I […] Read more…
Raff is extremely proud to have joined one of his environmental idols, Andy Ridley – Founder of Earth Hour and founding CEO of Citizens of the Great Barrier Reef – and Bikini Bottom’s most famous resident, SpongeBob SquarePants, as an official ambassador for Junior Citizens of the Reef. This ocean conservation program for kids has […] Read more…
, A recent visit to Perth had me falling down a rabbit hole, knife and fork in hand, into the culinary wonderland that is Fremantle Markets. Here, food vendor after food vendor beckoned, “Eat Me” with their pillowy bao buns, enchanted egg brioche, spell-binding pastries, fairytale fudge, sweetly magical honey cakes and more. And yes, […] Read more…
My arty farty kids love a gallery, but Singapore’s ArtScience Museum is a particular favourite. On our latest dash to the Lion City, visit number 14 for this Singapore addicted family, we couldn’t resist a return visit. As the name suggests, ArtScience Museum – part of the at Marina Bay Sands complex – fuses art and science with […] Read more…
Sentosa Island is bit of a Singaporean kids’ central. Home to some of its best beaches and too many world class family-friendly attractions to mention, the action-packed island playground already has long had my kids hooked, but with the brand-new Village Hotel Sentosa upping the ante on family fun, they’ve become raving fans. Here we share why we think families should […] Read more…
,a Its more than a touch problematic that anything even remotely resembling an aircraft has me reaching for the smelling salts as I spend an absurdly high proportion of my life in the sky. Because, given my unfortunate lack of feathers, I have no choice but to resort to hitching a ride on a big […] Read more…
The sleepy town of Joshua Tree is just a short distance east of Palm Springs, but the difference is startling. Modernist architecture is supplanted with huge weather-smoothed boulders and in place of the beautiful people Palm Springs is renowned for, you’ll find … well, a bunch of resident pricks. Of the cacti variety. Of course, […] Read more…
Travel doesn’t always have to be about the journey or the destination. Sometimes it’s more about the moments. Some of them are inconsequential in the grand scheme of things but others leave their mark on you forever. A pilgrimage to Nan, a province on the Laos border of North-Eastern Thailand, delivers just such a moment. […] Read more…
“Guangzhou is lit!” squeals my son, pun totally intended, his face illuminated by a giant radiant pig. He’s spot on, the city is luminously lovely from the thousands of red lanterns lining its streets. An epic lantern fair in Yuexiu Park takes things next level, and we can’t resist joining the throngs of families to […] Read more…