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Cornwall with kids: Polperro

Published on October 31, 2019September 18, 2025 by Victoria1 Comment

In this blog post I will share our quick visit to Polperro in Cornwall and our photos.

We worked out this is our fourth time to Cornwall (since me and Ben have been together). We’d been for a short trip before kids to Perranporth and stayed in Ben’s tiny tent. When Bella was perhaps one or two we stayed in The Victoria Hotel in Newquay. Two years ago we stayed for one week in the middle of North Cornwall somewhere and this time we have stayed for a week at Pentewan Sands Holiday Park.

Whilst I can’t really remember too much about the first two trips, we have typically had the worst weather on both our week long stays!

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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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Stonehenge: my review of this ancient wonder of the world

Published on August 18, 2019August 19, 2025 by Victoria2 Comments

Today was our four year wedding anniversary and we wanted to mark the occasion by doing something special, but also affordable. We’re saving the last of our spending money this month for the U.K. Vegan Campout, so we’re very aware that every penny we spend right now is less spending money on amazing vegan junk food in a couple of weeks!

With full tanks of fuel, we just needed an idea of where to go and that wasn’t hard as I was keen to tick another item off my 2019 bucket list and visit Stonehenge!

In this blog post, I will share my honest review of Stonehenge and lots of photos.

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