We’d got to that point where a “weekend away” meant driving forty minutes to a shopping centre with a slightly nicer food court. Nobody was relaxed, everybody had a phone out, and by Sunday afternoon we were just as frazzled as we’d been on Friday. So when a friend sent me a video of alpacas […]
Castledare Miniature Railway – Ride the Little Trains in Wilson
We found this one the way most good Perth day trips get found, someone mentioned it in passing and it took a Google search to work out where it actually was. Castledare Miniature Railway isn’t somewhere you stumble across. It only runs a handful of days a month, it’s tucked along the Canning River in […]
Yesign Chocolate Gallery Docklands – What the Chocolate Painting Workshop Is Actually Like
We were about three days into the school holidays and I’d already run out of ideas that didn’t involve a screen, so when a friend sent me a video of someone painting with actual chocolate, I sat up. Not chocolate-flavoured paint. Chocolate. As in, melted, tempered, real chocolate standing in for oils and watercolours. The […]
Power Play Sydney Reviews: Prices, Hours & Is It Worth It?
We had heard a few other Sydney parents talking about Power Play before we booked, so we went in with fairly high expectations. It still managed to surprise us. Nine rooms, two kids, one very sweaty hour later, we walked out already talking about when we’d go back. If you’re after something for the school […]
50 Fun Scavenger Hunt Clues for Kids (Free Backyard List)
Day four of the school holidays. The kids were upside down on the couch, doing that thing where they announce they’re “SO bored” like it’s my fault personally. I didn’t have a plan. Didn’t have a Pinterest board, didn’t have anything, really, except a biro and the sudden realisation that the backyard had been sitting […]
TreeClimb Adelaide Review — Prices, Height Rules & What to Know Before You Go
Took the boys to TreeClimb Adelaide over the holidays, it’s up in the Park Lands, we’d driven past it loads of times and finally got around to booking it. There’s three locations now actually, we only found out after booking, one out at Kuitpo Forest and a newer one at Salisbury that opened sometime last […]
Best Places to Go With Kids in Adelaide
Adelaide doesn’t get the hype Sydney or Melbourne does when people talk family travel, and honestly that works in its favour. Nothing’s far. The city’s basically wrapped in parkland, the beach is a tram ride away, and you can be feeding an alpaca or standing on top of a mountain within an hour of leaving […]
Deep Creek National Park – What to Know Before You Visit
What to know before you visit Deep Creek National Park We did this one on a weekday, which turned out to matter more than expected. Deep Creek National Park is about two hours south of Adelaide on the Fleurieu Peninsula, right at the end of the peninsula where the ferry to Kangaroo Island leaves from. […]
Alpaca Farm Near Adelaide: Ambersun Alpacas Guide
If you’ve already ticked off the usual Adelaide city walk and you’re wondering what’s left to do on a day trip, here’s one that keeps coming up in conversations with locals and visitors alike: driving out to Mount Compass to spend an hour surrounded by more than a thousand alpacas. The farm is called Ambersun […]
Abbey Medieval Festival Guide: Tickets, Camping & Costumes
We’d never been to the Abbey Medieval Festival before this year. Knew nothing really, just “medieval costumes, out near Caboolture.” Don’t do what we almost did. This thing sells out every single year, general entry and the Friday Family Fun Day both, and 2026’s tickets were gone completely before the festival even happened. Early bird […]