Tag Archives: Lego

Behind the scenes with Legoland Master Builders

Master Builder Legoland Florida

Behind the scenes with Legoland Master Builders Who do you imagine builds Legoland? Kids in third world sweatshops working to blueprints drawn up in the Billund headquarters? Nope. Bespectacled professors of plastic? Wrong again. It isn’t a line of people in a grim northern factory, robotically slotting heads onto Ewoks while counting the minutes till [...]

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Riding the Polarcoaster.. at Legoland Billund

Polar Explorer, Legoland Billund

Ever been on a Polarcoaster? Not even sure what that is? We weren’t either until we put on our thermals and prepared to duck and dive with the penguins on the all new Polar Xplorer ride at Legoland. We just couldn’t resist a sniff of the Antarctic on our long journey to Iceland…. Ever been [...]

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Lego facts: 8 things you didn’t know about Lego

Lego facts: 8 things you didn’t know about Lego Lego is one of the world’s most enduring toys. And over the last few years it’s also become an increasingly popular family attraction. Along with the LEGOLAND resort hotels and theme parks like Windsor, LEGOLAND Discovery Centres are springing up in cities around the world. But [...]

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Feeling the Lego force at Star Wars Miniland

If you’re a Star Wars fan or live with one, either human or droid, you’ve probably already come across Star Wars Lego or Lego Star Wars games, but Legoland Windsor have just taken it all to a new level with their Star Wars Miniland experience. It opened the same week as the new Legoland Hotel so [...]

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Building bricks for happy family adventures? Legoland Windsor Hotel

If you like Lego, you’ll be in heaven in the Legoland Windsor Hotel. It not only looks like it’s built of Lego, it’s full of it. And what kid doesn’t like Lego? The saying goes if the children are happy then the parents will be too, but is it true? As part of our Twin [...]

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A Twin Theme Park Adventure

A Twin Theme Park Adventure In our family there’s a well established tradition that if you cycle at least 1500 kilometres without complaining, you’ll be rewarded with a day out to a theme park. (Ok, I admit there may be some low level grumbling from everyone including myself, but no one has ever seriously demanded [...]

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Happiness is a Lego brick: Legoland Billund

Legoland Hotel Billund

Happiness is a Lego Brick: Legoland Billund We had no intention of diverting from our route. It was nice, if a little dull. Denmark was consistently an uneventful combination of flat riding, pleasant weather, Viking centres and cabins available on campsites at the end of every day. But then we bought a vanilla slice at [...]

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Lake District Tobogganing in Bivvi Bag Style

Toboganning in a survival bag

Lake District Tobogganing in Bivvi Bag Style Unable to get away during Easter, and tired of the kids niggling each [...]

Adventure Ideas 7: Go Further for Less

Money and Piggy Bank

Adventure Ideas 7: Go Further for Less Budget Travel Tips: Make your Holiday Money go Further It’s nearly that time [...]

Adventure Ideas 4: Go deep, high, eco or mad

Diving lesson kids

Adventure Ideas 4: Go deep, high, eco or mad Do you remember when ‘family friendly’ meant a kids’ club and [...]

Why not pop in somewhere different?

Pop up Bike Shop Manchester

It’s so easy to go to the same old places, do you know what I mean? When desperate for a [...]

Can comic heros save us from death by detergent?

How do you save an iconic lake from death by detergent? It’s a job for superheroes and needs community involvement, [...]

Living with lava – family life under a volcano

Eyafjallajokull Visitor Centre

Family life in the shadow of Eyjafjallajökull How do you feel about volcanoes? Would you give your right arm to [...]

I believe in the creature from the deep

Ice Monster

Sorting out what Icelandic people really believe in is a time consuming business. But, having spent a week in Reykjavik [...]

Lake District Via Ferrata at Honister

Via Ferrata at Honister, Lake District Want to test your family’s head for heights on a low risk, high thrill [...]

Adventure! on the timetable at Adventure Schools

 Adventure! on the timetable at Adventure Schools If you live in the UK’s Capital of Adventure, why would you want [...]

Does a happiness revolution sound like this?

Is this the sound of a happiness revolution? After making music with carrots, I figure I should be able to [...]

8 things that make Iceland sooo creative

What makes Icelanders so creative? It’s perhaps an understatement to say that Icelanders are a quirky nation. But what makes [...]

Culture & happiness at Reykjavik Festival of Children & Culture

When we set out to visit the Reykjavik Children’s Cultural Festival we knew relatively little about Iceland, Icelandic culture or [...]

An unexpected cultural education: Vaisakhi Southall

An unexpected cultural education: Vaisakhi Southall Driving back from our Twin Theme Park Adventure we stopped at some traffic lights [...]

Magic behind the Magic: Harry Potter Studio Tour

Magic behind magic: Harry Potter Studio Tour Never before has a children’s story managed to combine real life and magic [...]

Feeling the Lego force at Star Wars Miniland

If you’re a Star Wars fan or live with one, either human or droid, you’ve probably already come across Star [...]

A Blue Sky Go Green Go Lake District Travel Plan!

10 Ideas for cleaner, greener Lake District travel As a family of cyclists the idea of holidaying without a car [...]

You can go to the moon… making dreams happen

The moon, dreams and making them happen The moon is the muse for a group of six artists exhibiting at [...]

Geocache City: Touring Krakow by Geocache

Market Square Krakow

Geocache City – Touring Krakow by Geocache We are in front of a shrine to Mary, in the centre of [...]