What do you do when you have 10 days without the kids and a chance to go on a holiday. Plan a 2700km car journey and 900km train ride across the US and Canada, taking in the culenary and natrual beuty along the way. Finishing up in New York. Part 1 - Journey to Halifax and Halifax area Part 2 - Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick Part 3 - US Road Trip - Main to Niagra Falls Part 4 - Toronto and New York City Maine USA The following morning we stopped at the...
Kiwico crates - first impressions
While searching around on the net a month or so ago I came across a company called KiwiCo. They do age appropriate boxes of fun activities to promote STEAM (previously stem, Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Maths) from 0 to 104 (according to their site). You can get individual crates or a monthly subscription. The concept looked great so I ordered a 12 month subscription. A week or two ago Kieran's first KiwiCo create arrived and we worked together today to make it. The instructions are very simple to follow, all the parts are pre cut and there...
Kilimanjaro Hike 2019 with Kilimanjaro Brothers
I would suggest going and getting yourself a cup of tea and some biscuits, as this is going to be a long one. Way back at the start of 2018 we decided to put together a Kilimanjaro trip and started recruiting friends for this idea and looking into the logistics behind it. You have many options when you look into a trip up Kilimanjaro. You can do it all yourself (expensive and guide still required from what I understand) or go with one of the many tour companies who are both foreign and local. We had took the advice from...