Over the March long weekend we enjoyed our third visit to Glen Cromie. Being only an hour from Melbourne along the Monash Freeway it is a very easy long weekend or weekend getaway. The park itself is only 10 minutes from both Warragul and Drouin. The park is set on 35 acres in a [...]
Things to do around Bright and Porepunkah with kids There are just so many things to do around the Bright and Porepunkah area with kids. We had a week and we enjoyed a great mix of relaxing around the camp ground and also getting out and exploring. If camping is not your thing, there are many, many [...]
It probably wasn’t the wisest move deciding to visit Legoland Discovery Centre at Chadstone when we did: A Saturday School Holidays 43 degree day But Ross, Ned and Olive are all massive Lego fans and were beside themselves with excitement. Where is Legoland The Legoland Discovery Centre is within the Chadstone Shopping Centre. The address is: [...]
We had a fabulous time camping for a week at the Porepunkah Bridge Holiday Park over the new year period. Here is our review of the park and the facilities. We love the area around Bright and the High Country and have always wanted to spend more time camping up there. It's one of those places [...]
The Peninsula Picnic is one of the Mornington Peninsula’s premier family friendly food, wine and music festivals and we were excited to attend both the 2017 and 2018 events. Our first introduction to live music with the kids was The Lost Lands which was awesome. So we were keen to experience more live music events. The [...]
Ross and I took the kids to see the Hoodoo Gurus at a Melbourne Zoo twilight concert in perfect summer weather in February 2017. It was awesome! Our introduction to live music was The Lost Lands Festival and now we can’t get enough live music events as a family - we also love the Peninsula Picnic. There [...]
Mmmm – fresh raspberries and blackberries – need I say more! Fat, ripe blackberries At The Bramble Farm in Langwarrin you can pick as many berries as you like – as we did Christmas Eve - it is very easy to spend an hour or so here picking your own berries. The Bramble Farm [...]
Roaring T-Rex Do you have little dinosaur lovers in your family? If yes, then I think they would love to visit Dinosaur World, located in Somerville, if you are heading down to the Mornington Peninsula. Whilst staying at my Mum and Dad’s over Christmas we decided to finally visit Dinosaur World – it’s been [...]
The South Melbourne Night market is back for 2018 and it started off with a bang tonight! The event runs every Thursday night from the 4th January to the 22nd February from 5.30pm. Olive at the South Melbourne Night Market We have been the past few years and Ross made the call tonight that it would [...]
If you haven't been camping at Lake Catani yet then you need to get there! Lake Catani is situated at the top of Mt Buffalo and you are able to camp as well as visit for the day. We had been camping up there once before kids and were itching to get back up there with [...]
