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Oystermouth Castle Mumbles Swansea Wales

24 hours exploring Mumbles, Gower, kid-free!

Published on March 3, 2020January 20, 2026 by Victoria1 Comment

Earlier this year I asked my mum if she’d have Bella and Reuben overnight for the last weekend of February. It’s the month of mine and Ben’s anniversary and we’ve now been together nine years. I wanted to go away for one night and explore somewhere new together. I wasn’t sure where, but as we only had around 30 hours in total kid-free, it couldn’t be too far.

We’ve been to the Gower in Wales two times before kid-free and love it there. We’ve previously been to Rhossili Bay and Oxwich Bay. We decided to go again as it’s not too long a drive, around two hours. This time we decided to visit Mumbles!

Read on to discover what we got up to in Mumbles and where we found lots of yummy vegan food!

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Bluestone National Park Resort twixmas holiday review & Kingdom of the Elves

Published on December 30, 2019April 13, 2026 by Victoria1 Comment

For the second year running we stayed at Bluestone National Park Resort for a ‘twixmas’ break. That’s the days after Christmas and before New Year if you didn’t know. I didn’t!

In this blog post you’ll discover my honest Bluestone Christmas review and photos for our Twixmas visit in 2019.

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female hiker victoria sully next to Pen Y Fan summit peak 886m marker

Brecon Beacons National Park Wales: Pen y Fan and Cribyn mountain walk

Published on October 20, 2019May 1, 2026 by Victoria2 Comments

Yesterday we had a kid-free day and I wanted to climb a mountain so we drove to the Brecon Beacons National Park in Wales. We headed to the Central Beacons which took one hour 50 minutes to drive from our home in Gloucester. We climbed two peaks: Pen y Fan and Cribyn. Read on to learn the route we took and see the incredible views of Welsh Mountains.

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Visiting Skenfrith Castle in Wales with kids

Published on August 27, 2019May 6, 2025 by Victoria1 Comment

On Saturday it was Ben’s Dad’s 70th birthday. We didn’t actually know it was his 70th, but we did know it was his birthday!

I did ask Ben how old his Dad was and he had no idea, so we had to ask.

For a treat, we picked up his Dad and his Dad’s wife and took them to explore 13th-century Skenfrith Castle with us.

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Snowdonia National Park with kids – 3 day travel diary & photos – Cadair Idris, Aberdovey, Harlech Castle

Published on April 24, 2019May 6, 2025 by Victoria2 Comments

In the recent Easter holidays, we ticked something off my 2019 travel bucket list which was to visit Snowdonia National Park. We stayed in Machynlleth which is in the Dyfi Valley at the southern tip of the park. In this blog post, I will share what we did for three days with kids in Snowdonia, Wales.

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