Australia

With so many beautiful gardens within the Blue Mountains Area it was hard to find just one to visit. After searching on the internet and asking around on Instagram I finally decided on the Blue Mountains Botanical Gardens! My decision was made based mainly on two reasons. Entry into the […]

Blue Mountains Botanical Gardens.

4 Nov, 2020 in Australia / family / Inspiration / recommendations / review / Travels with mum blog tagged Australia / blue mountains / botanical gardens by travelswithmumblog@gmail.com (updated 1478 days ago)

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 1487 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 1502 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 1604 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 1690 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 1731 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 1738 days ago)

New Years Eve 2019 was to be an experience to remember, with an overnight hike along the Main Range Walk in Kosciuszko to be the highlight. In the end it was a New Years eve to remember but not in the way I intended. This is what happened…. We left […]

Main Range Walk Overnight Kosciuszko

20 Jan, 2020 in Adventure / Australia / family / hiking / Inspiration / travel with kids / Travels with mum blog tagged hiking / hiking with kids / kosciuszko / main range walk / national park by travelswithmumblog@gmail.com (updated 1766 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 1774 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 1774 days ago)

If you don’t already know. I often gift experiences for Birthday and Christmas presents. This year my middle daughter turned 21 so we were off to The Western Plains Zoo to celebrate in style with a sleep over at the Billabong Camp! We began our journey at 6am on a […]

Sleeping at the Zoo!

19 Nov, 2019 in Australia / Camping / family / recommendations / review / travel / Travels with mum blog tagged billabong camp / dubbo zoo / overnight / taronga zoo / western plains zoo by travelswithmumblog@gmail.com (updated 1828 days ago)

Recently Tree Tops Adventure Park on the Central Coast opened a new area called “Net World” and its amazing!! Want to Know more about Tree Tops adventure park? Check out my blog post here! I had been watching all the fun people were having at this new adventure on various […]

Bouncing along at Net World!

9 Jun, 2019 in Australia / family / kids recommend / recommendations / review / Travels with mum blog tagged family day out / net world / tree tops adventure park by travelswithmumblog@gmail.com (updated 1995 days ago)