A couple of times a year, instead of choosing half a dozen travel posts to highlight, I throw the round-up open to everyone and compile a list of blog posts you would like me to mention. It’s a great way for readers to find lots of suggestions for day trips in the UK to far-flung holiday destinations abroad. Here’s your selection, with a few I spotted myself along the way.
UK
Scotland
Festival City 2013 – Nana GoGo
10 Reasons to holiday without the kids – Sceptical Mum
Things to do in and around Gairloch – A Family Day Out
Our Holiday in Pictures – The Crazy Kitchen
North West
Blackpool Rocks – Toothpaste On Your T-Shirt
East
Pleasurewood Hills, Lowestoft – Boo, Roo and Tigger Too
South East
Grand Days Out – St Bloggie de Riviere
8 things you need to know about the Moorgate Travelodge – Joanne Mallon’s Opposable Thumbs
Bekonscot Model Village, Beaconsfield – Jennifer’s Little World
South West
Gromit Set Loose – Family Travel Times
Bristol International Balloon Festival – Practically Perfect Mums
Coombe Mill – Damson Lane
Fun on the Farm – Mummy Central
Doodles on the sand – Chez Maximka
Trevella Ticked all the Boxes – Emma and Three
South West of England Days Out Round Up – Plus 2.4
Portland Marina, our new home – Thinly Spread
Our road trip continued – Cakes Photos Life
Our First Camping Trip – One Busy WAHM
EUROPE
Austria
Monkey Mountain, Minimundus and Magdalensberg – Mum’s Gone To…
France
Restore – InstinctiveMum
Paris with a Toddler – A Blissful Life
Annual Trip to the South of France – Funky Wellies’ Random Thoughts
Giverny – Claude Monet’s house and gardens – Mari’s World
Greece
Sit Back and Think of Kos – Crystal Jigsaw
Holland
£9.50 Sun Holiday – Park 272 Duinrell – Pinkoddy
Italy
Best Hotel on the Amalfi Coast? – Family Affairs and Other Matters
Photos of Taormina, Sicily – Mammasaurus
A Fortnight of Food and Drink in Bella Italia – Foodie Quine
Portugal
Our Holiday in Portugal – Honest Mum
Romania
Our holiday at the Romanian Seaside – Romanian Mum
Russia
St Petersburg, Russia: a brilliant city for a family break – The Mum Blog
Slovenia
White Water Rafting on the Soca River – The Family Adventure Project
REST OF THE WORLD
Barbados is so laid back, it IS horizontal – Mummy Barrow
Panning for gold in California’s Gold Country – A Modern Mother
Summer in the States – Dorkymum
Ana Snapshot: Postcard from Florida – The Ana Mum Diary
How to avoid the queues at Disney World – Mums Do Travel
Meeting Kyoto – A Bavarian Sojourn
If I missed anyone out, huge apologies. I know there are more holiday posts out there so please pop them on the linky below to tell us all about your trip.
About Trish Burgess
Trish Burgess started her blog ‘Mum’s Gone To…’ with a series of posts called ‘Mum’s Gone To Iceland’ where she was extremely ill on a whale-watching trip and thought she would die snow-mobiling on a glacier. Thankfully she survived and continued with less scary family trips: ‘Mum’s Gone To…Canada, Cyprus, Barcelona, Berlin etc. Originally from Newcastle upon Tyne she now lives in South Lincolnshire and travels with her husband and occasionally with her son, who is now at university. Trish can be found on Twitter at @mumsgoneto
Thanks so much for including me Trish! 🙂
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Had to include one of your posts from Japan – they were excellent.
Thanks for adding me to the list, Trish. I really appreciate it. Lots of fabulously sounding holidays here, looking forward to trawling through them. Great job you’ve done here!
CJ x
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Thank you! Happy to include you, Kathryn. I remember having a great holiday in Kos many years ago, pre-children!
What an amazing list! I’m sure I’ll find inspiration for our next trip in here. Thanks for the mention too x
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It was great to get lots of different posts to mention. Hope you find inspiration. Thanks so much for sharing on Twitter and Google+ too x
Many thanks for including me in the round-up! I see someone travelled to Russia, that will be my first post to read among many others.
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Liz will be pleased you’re going to read her post. Hope you enjoy it x
Wow, no September blues in this house as we decide on where to go next. What a fabulous collection to work through
I know! I’m torn between a trip to Russia and the Amalfi coast!
If you go to Russia, you might as well have a river cruise from Perm to Moscow and visit all the beautiful small and not so small towns on the way like Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod, Kostroma,Yaroslavl, Uglich.
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Now there’s an idea! Thank you 🙂
Thabk you for the feature. Sounds like we have all been having an amazing time. Off to read 🙂
Enjoy your armchair travels!