18Apr/14

Harewood House, Leeds, West Yorkshire

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Harewood House near Leeds is an 18th Century stately home and gardens, which are open to the public. It is one of Yorkshire’s leading attractions, and is a lovely day out for families.
Harewood House is associated with many notables, including Capability Brown, and the artist JMW Turner. It will be the starting point, Grand Depart, for Le Tour (The Tour de France) in Summer 2014. 

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12Apr/14

The Maritime Museum, Hull, East Yorkshire

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The Maritime Museum (known locally as the Town Dock Museum) is one of Hull’s free city-centre museums. It is a collection of all things nautical, particularly local history, and things connected to trawling and whaling. It is in one of Hull’s most famous buildings – the 19th century Docks offices buildings which were used, amongst other things, to administer migration from Eastern Europe to the Americas. If you love boats, local history, and sea-faring adventure, this museum is pretty good.

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22Mar/14

#TeamHonk for Sport Relief in Hull and East Yorkshire

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on Sunday 23rd March 2014, the #TeamHonk baton reaches John O’Groats. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, where have you been?

The baton set off in January and it has been taken on an epic journey up and across the British Isles. It has done over 3000 miles, over 38 regional legs, involving over 200 members of the UK blogging community plus a veritable host of willing volunteers. Continue reading →
19Mar/14
Penguins at The Deep Hull

Meeting the new penguins at The Deep, Hull

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The Deep is somewhere we have visited many, many times. It is the biggest attraction in our region and gets thousands of visitors every month. You can see my review of The Deep here.
 
With the twins recovering from chicken pox and needing somewhere to burn off some energy on a windy day, we decided to go again and have a look at The Deep’s latest arrivals – four Gentoo penguins. So with our own penguins in tow, off we went.

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13Feb/14

Disney on Ice presents Worlds of Fantasy

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We are very excited to be going to the latest Disney on Ice show Worlds of Fantasy. We will be going to the First Direct Arena in Leeds on the 8th March and we are really looking forward to it.
 
Worlds of Fantasy is a story of Mickey and Minnie’s road trip, taking in Tinkerbell and Pixie Hollow, Ariel and her undersea friends, Cars, and Toy Story 3 with Barbie and Ken. There is also “help” in the form of favourites Goofy and Donald Duck. 

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07Feb/14

#TeamHonk update

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You probably are wondering what is happening with #TeamHonk?

You may have seen the baton winding its way up the country mile by mile. You may have seen Honkopoly and the baton’s epic trip around the London streets of the Monopoly board, or wheeling along Brighton seafront, and be wondering when the blithering-heck it’s going to be our turn. Continue reading →