Category: Holidays

  • Black Run

    Black Run

      Maddie’s skiing has come on in leaps and bounds and this year she did her first black run in Samoens, not only that but it wasn’t pisted and she didn’t fall over! Proud Dad moment! Just hope I can still keep up with her in the years to come.

  • Maddie at the Shard

    Maddie at the Shard

    We had a lovely short break in London as a family just before Christmas, might seem a bit weird when it’s only 20 mins on the train from where we live but it was really good fun. We stayed in this lovely boutique hotel called the Grazing Goat near Selfridges. Although it was only a…

  • Holiday of a lifetime!

    Holiday of a lifetime!

    If there’s one place in the world where extravagance and money to burn seems to be everywhere it’s Dubai. As an exercise in forward planning for tourism to replace oil it’s seems very insightful. One things for sure we are never going to forget some of the things we have seen and experienced. A single…

  • Facetime!

    Facetime!

    Away on a skiing trip I was reminded that it seems like only yesterday I used to go and get phone cards to call home and now with the wonders of modern technology we have video calling! At home it just seems like a novelty but when you are separated from loved ones abroad it…

  • Mermaid

    Maddie’s swimming has come on in leaps and bounds this year. (Currently in the green hat lesson at woodside). This now extends to swimming underwater which she was only too happy to show off for my new underwater camera! We had some great fun taking pictures and the one above is the pic of the…

  • Egypt

    It’s been the wettest year I can remember (particularly funny given the hosepipe ban) so when Mette suggested going somewhere warm in the Autumn half term we were all keen to go. We stayed at the Reef Oasis in Sharm and for the most part we crashed by one of the 3 pools. There’s more…

  • Daredevil

    We stayed in a great hotel in Egypt during half term, the highlight for Maddie was the family pool which had 3 great water flumes. This is her on the steepest of the three slides , a three storey vertical drop! Despite saying it looked too steep it took all of about 10 mins for…

  • Pool Babes

    We could hardly keep Maddie out of the pool on holiday so whilst most of us spent most of our time in the shade (it was around 4o˚!) Maddie was playing, floating, diving and swimming in the water and ended up with a better tan than all of us! Even with factor 50 on!

  • Beach Bum!

    A selection of some of the lovely pictures I managed to get of Maddie on Watergate Bay beach in Cornwall. The second one is now on our wall as a large canvas. Maddie was quite happy surfing or playing in the sand. No gigantic Dad sandcastles but then again the weather wasn’t great so we…

  • Monopoly

    Ok so who doesn’t remember playing Monopoly for hours on end as kids. Sheltering from the crap British weather in Watergate Bay Hotel bar we came across a vintage set of Monopoly which Maddie really enjoyed playing. (So much so that she got her own set for her birthday!) What’s even more amazing is that…