Bamburgh Castle - cannons, armour and a North Sea beach
Cannons pointing at the sea, rooms full of armour, winding stairs and grassy slopes the kids rolled down. Bamburgh was the last castle of our UK road trip.
Hadrian's Wall and Loch Lomond - from England to Scotland with kids
We squeezed through stone gaps on a Roman wall, built a dam in a stream on Loch Lomond and met the Scottish midges. Plus a flat battery and tropical glasshouses in Glasgow.
Ullswater and Aira Force - a tent in the mud in the Lake District
Lunch with an old work friend in Macclesfield, a tent pitched in the mud like Shrek's swamp, and the 20-metre Aira Force waterfall in the Lake District. This is how our day in the Lakes went.
Puzzlewood - a magical film forest and bingo at Whitemead campsite
Mossy rocks, roots that look like dinosaurs and numbered points to find: Star Wars was filmed in Puzzlewood, and our kids turned the walk into a big treasure hunt. In the evening, bingo and an Olly Murs tribute concert at the campsite.
St Michael's Mount with kids - a causeway at low tide and crabs under the stones
You can only walk to this island with a castle for a few hours a day, when the sea goes back. We crossed the causeway to St Michael's Mount and found crabs under the stones on the sea bed.
Land's End and Porthcurno with kids - at the very end of England
You cannot go any further west in England. An evening at Land's End, the turquoise bay of Porthcurno below a theatre in the cliffs, and a night when the wind almost blew our tent down.
Lady's Mile in Dawlish - a campsite with a pool for rainy days
Rain every day, narrow roads and a dialect we could not understand. We stayed at Lady's Mile in Devon twice, and now we know where to hide with kids from the British weather.
Stonehenge with kids in the rain - how the visit works
Stones from the postcards, hoods up and a bus across a field. Stonehenge in the rain was a little disappointing, but the Stone Age houses and a huge stone to pull were great fun for the kids.
Great Britain 2019 - England, Wales and Scotland with kids in a tent
Three weeks, four kids, a tent and almost 5,000 km: from a kilometre-wide beach in Gravelines, through crabs at St Michael's Mount and the magical Puzzlewood forest, all the way to Loch Lomond. Our day-by-day plan and what the British rain taught us.
