My son has been carrying the same three dinosaur picture books around the house for weeks, correcting anyone who calls a Triceratops a Stegosaurus, so this school holidays we more or less surrendered and did the full dinosaur circuit — DinoFest out at Nortons Park, the dinosaur trail running through the zoos, and a longer […]
Best Dinosaur Parks near Sydney
We’ve done two dinosaur-themed day trips out of Sydney now, in opposite directions and for opposite reasons — one for a big day out that happened to include dinosaurs, one because we were already in town for the car racing and stumbled onto something better. Dinosaur Valley at Scenic World, Blue Mountains We went for […]
Must Visit Dinosaur Parks near Brisbane
We weren’t planning to spend three days chasing dinosaurs. We were just passing through outback Queensland, and someone at a caravan park mentioned “the Dinosaur Trail” the way locals mention things they assume you already know about. A quick search later, we’d rearranged the whole trip around it. Australia’s Dinosaur Trail links three towns — […]
Koala Park West Pennant Hills – Kangaroo Feeding, Prices & Tips
We went to Cherrybrook to see the cherry blossoms near the station. Nice, but honestly a bit boring once you’ve taken the photos — there’s only so long you can stand under a row of trees before the kids start asking what’s next. So we kept walking. About half an hour down Castle Hill Road, […]
Little Amigos Southland Review
We went back to Little Amigos at Southland on a quiet weekday morning, deliberately avoiding the weekend rush. It’s on Level 2 of Westfield Southland, and the easiest way in is through the Village Cinemas entrance, that side of the centre puts you almost right at the door. If you’ve got a Westfield membership, it’s […]
Playgrounds Near Forest Hill
Every time I’m around Forest Hill I have the same problem: I genuinely don’t know where to take the kids. There’s no big drawcard playground worth a special trip out here, and even the free kids play space up on Level 3 at Forest Hill Chase is pretty forgettable once you’ve been a couple of […]
Kidsday Chatswood Chase: Price, Age Range and What We Really Thought
I got lost on the way in, which is embarrassing to admit because I know Chatswood Chase reasonably well by now. Kidsday sits up on Level 3, the rooftop car park level, and I still did a lap of the whole centre before I found the right lift. If you’re heading there for the first […]
CubeTown Glen Waverley Review
A Sweaty, Screen-Free Way to Burn Off School Holiday Energy We had already done the library, the trampoline park and two wet-weather playgrounds by day three of the holidays, and I was running out of ideas. A friend mentioned she’d taken her kids to CubeTown on the fourth floor of Kingsway Central in Glen Waverley […]
Cubby Kiosk, Forrestdale – What to Know Before You Go
If you live anywhere near Perth’s southern suburbs and you haven’t been to Cubby Kiosk at 11 Acre Farm yet, put it on the list. We’d heard about it for months before we actually made the trip out to Forrestdale, and it’s now firmly on our repeat-visit list, which for us is the real test […]
Brick Valley Yumcha, Glen Waverley — Is the Lego Restaurant Worth the Trip With Kids?
Brick Valley had been open a few weeks before we finally went. The reviews online were already split down the middle, and with two Lego-obsessed kids at home, we were never not going to find out for ourselves. The Lego Theme Isn’t Just for Show We heard it before we saw it properly — both […]