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I have a very special birthday coming up, not mine but my mums. It is her 75th Birthday this year and I wanted to have a special day with her and my sister. I knew that I wanted to go up to the Blue Mountains, but my experience of the […]

Bygone Beautys… ...

26 Oct, 2020 in Australia / Inspiration / recommendations / review / Travels with mum blog tagged blue mountains. / bygone beautys / high tea / tea rooms by travelswithmumblog@gmail.com (updated 1279 days ago)

So, when I found out my sons last soccer game of the season was up at Port Stephens I took the opportunity to find a place to camp and come across the Koala Shores Holiday Park it look enticing and it was literally less then a kilometre away from the […]

Big 4 Koala Shores Holiday Park…. Port Stephens.

11 Oct, 2020 in Australia / Camping / family / recommendations / review / travel / travel with kids / Travels with mum blog tagged big4 holiday parks / Camping / camping australia / camping with kids by travelswithmumblog@gmail.com (updated 1293 days ago)

During this time of craziness we are calling Covid many people have been going mad with online purchases or just buying stuff in general! The shops have been full ( post isolation) with people buying stuff and online purchases have sky rocketed. Now generally speaking I am not a big […]

Top 5: Favourite Covid Purchases!

12 Aug, 2020 in Equipment / recommendations / review / top 5 / Travels with mum blog tagged covid / kathmandu gear / travel gear by travelswithmumblog@gmail.com (updated 1354 days ago)

Recently we were so excited to be invited to the amazing Illawarra Fly Treetop walk on the South Coast of Australia. It was an experience we will remember for a long time. Entry and drinks were gifted to us, but all opinions are my own. Check out our YouTube video […]

Illawarra Fly TreeTop Walk

1 Jul, 2020 in Adventure / Australia / family / kids recommend / recommendations / review / travel / travel with kids / Travels with mum blog tagged gifted / illawarra fly / review / tree top walk by travelswithmumblog@gmail.com (updated 1396 days ago)

I love giving experiences for gifts, I have written about this before here, here and here. So, when my son turned 12 last year I gifted him a day of abseiling with a local company, Out and About Adventures. It took a while to get it all organised with so […]

First time abseiling.

6 Apr, 2020 in Adventure / Australia / Inspiration / kids recommend / recommendations / Travels with mum blog tagged abseiling / adventures / family adventure / out and about adventures by travelswithmumblog@gmail.com (updated 1482 days ago)

So I have found myself having “NO spend ” weekends. It have enjoyed the challenge to have a great weekend without spending any money and I thought I would share some ideas on how we do this. Firstly our “No Spend” weekends came about not only because some weekends we […]

Saving for Travel Series: No Spend ...

2 Mar, 2020 in family / Inspiration / recommendations / Saving / saving for travel / Travels with mum blog tagged no spend / saving / saving for travel / weekends by travelswithmumblog@gmail.com (updated 1517 days ago)

Mountain Biking for the first time! So we thought we would try mountain biking. The kids were keen… me, not so much. But we were in the best place to give it go, the Kosciousko National Park, with Thredbo mountain bike park being a prime spot for beginners like us! […]

Mountain Biking with kids…

25 Feb, 2020 in Adventure / Australia / family / Inspiration / recommendations / travel with kids / Travels with mum blog tagged kosciuszko / mountain biking / thredbo by travelswithmumblog@gmail.com (updated 1522 days ago)

We were looking for a quick camping trip for the weekend, one that was near water, resonably priced and not too far from home. Mungo Brush Campground in the Myall Lakes National Park ticked all the boxes, so we loaded up the car on Sat morning and drove the hour […]

Mungo Brush Camping

17 Feb, 2020 in Australia / Camping / family / Inspiration / recommendations / travel with kids / Travels with mum blog tagged Camping / camping with kids / mungo brush / nsw National Park by travelswithmumblog@gmail.com (updated 1530 days ago)

My greatest dilemma when preparing for my Kokoda trek was what socks to wear!! It kept me up at night, because I had heard horror stories of socks rubbing and forming blisters and feet getting wet because the socks held moisture… I didn’t want my choice of socks to ruin […]

Best Hiking Socks

10 Feb, 2020 in Adventure / Equipment / hiking / recommendations / review / Travels with mum blog tagged best hiking socks / hiking socks / kathmandu gear by travelswithmumblog@gmail.com (updated 1537 days ago)

Ok, so I know that we are already half way through January but lets cast our mind back to last year and check out what Travels and Adventures we got up to here at Travels With Mum. January 2019 – Tokyo / Hakuba, Japan In January we took an amazing […]

2019 – A photo review!

13 Jan, 2020 in About me / family / Inspiration / recommendations / review / travel with kids / Travels with mum blog tagged 2019 / photo review / travel by travelswithmumblog@gmail.com (updated 1565 days ago)

It’s been about 15 years since I visited Sea Life Aquarium in Sydney… and my younger two children have never been.. so when I was approached wtih the chance to visit, I jumped at the chance. Please note I was gifted with tickets to Sea Life Aquarium Sydney but all […]

Sea Life Sydney Aquarium..

21 Dec, 2019 in Australia / kids recommend / recommendations / travel with kids / Travels with mum blog tagged gifted / recommendation / reviews / seallife sydney / sydney by travelswithmumblog@gmail.com (updated 1565 days ago)

I think we just had a weekend at one of the best Holiday Parks on the Central Coast… the NRMA Ocean Beach Holiday Resort at Umina Beach! I was looking for a spot to have an weekend away, that was close to home, offered unpowered campsites, was on the coast […]

Ocean Beach Holiday Resort

15 Dec, 2019 in Australia / Camping / family / recommendations / review / travel with kids / Travels with mum blog tagged camping australia / camping with kids / holidays / holidays with kids / nrma holiday parks / ocean beach holiday resort / reviews by travelswithmumblog@gmail.com (updated 1565 days ago)