Playgrounds

Our P45 Tour taking in the wineries , the fun fairs and the playgrounds of Europe.....and many many ice-creams

... little town. We spent the day walking and bike riding along the beach and foreshore with the kids having a great time on the playgrounds and the skate park. The following morning we were up early for a quick trip over to Tin Can Bay which has a very ...

After visiting the frozen lake I spent another 3 days on a train going to Moscow. In Moscow there are lots of parks and small playgrounds. Most of the children live in tall buildings so they don't have any yard to play in. Instead they go to a playground ...

... left around 8 pm. We got to know Willis Street pretty well, though we also saw more of the city. Wellington has a lot of great playgrounds...or maybe that was just because we did not get much sleep on the night bus... anyway this is what we saw: - ...

Andrew was up at silly o clock again and I had a lie in, well it always seems like a lie in when you compare it to what time Andrew rises. Steve had taken Ryan and Jasmine swimming and I was just up in time to see them come back and Ryan have to start ...

With an early start, we visited Knotts Berry Farm at Buena Park, a theme park of life in pre-war California: it was quite well done and a pleasant place.   Then it was on to Disneyland in nearby Anaheim.  The best shows in Disneyland were ...

We arrived in Nice at about 4.30 and were able to secure a room to ourselves with toilet and shower, some normality, heaven. Dumping our stuff in the room and headed for the tourist office which was practically across the street. Sorted out all the info ...

We went to Sovereign Hill yesterday and I got a gold bell and Tom and Darcy got a pop-gun. Today we played mini golf in Ballarat. We drove to Colac. We went ot a big big playground that was made out of wood and we went on the merry-go-round.  It ...

September 30, 2011 Nice and Cannes France boasts a little stretch of  expensive Mediterranean coastline known the world over as the Côte d’Azure. Monaco, Nice and Cannes are all part of this glamorous little enclave as celebrities and the ...

I started today at Iron Knob and I loved the exercise equipment that was under the shed at the playground.  It was good too because it had monkey bars.  I loved that playground beacuse it had good monkey bars. I also saw a big big pink ...

We slept especially well last night, considering we had spent the best part of 24 hours in transit. Glad to sleep in a bed, to be honest. We went down to have our breakfast and enjoyed scrambled eggs and bacon. The kids ordered pancakes each. All was ...

Tom took the kids back (again!) to the sand / water part of Jardin du Luxembourg. After a nice morning, Sue and Tom went to Joel Robuchon's restaurant for an excellent lunch. A few hours later, we emerged and strolled along the Champs de elysees home ...

While Farmor and Tyler went shopping, Sue, Evie and Tom went Montmartre for some views and some art. Evie did a drawing for Farmor near the famous artist's square and we had a lovely lunch of Croque Madame and frites. Yum!! Later that afternoon, we went ...

Based on Tom and Tyler's discovery, we all headed to the Parc du Villette for some playground time. A good time was had by all, including some of Europe's best ziplines. We eventually had to move on, when we were informed that they were for the 7 and ...

Tom and Tyler explored futher a field and discovered the "jumpy pillows" of Parc du Villette while Sue and Evie explored the Jardin du Toulieres and the Notre Dame. We took an early evening tour to the Eiffel Tower and called it a day.             ...

First Stop: Meteora Meteora is home to the fearless monks! ha ha.  There are several monasteries here that are situated on cliffs.  The access to these monasteries used to be a rope and pulley system.  Or, you could climb the cliff to ...