Norwich Castle Family Guide (Honest Review For 2026)
A detailed review of Norwich Castle covering the highlights, ticket prices, what to do and key information to know before you go.
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Our Review Of The Winter Wonderland Norwich 2025 (Read This Before You Go!)
Winter Wonderland Norwich has become a family tradition, featuring a large free ice skating rink, rides, a Christmas maze, and a Santa experience. Admission is free for 2025, enhancing its appeal for holiday outings.
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Norwich Easter Activities 2025. Free Events Or Affordable Events With Kids
I will start this post with a disclaimer: we won’t actually be in Norwich this Easter! We’re going to be away travelling for the whole of the long Easter holidays. But if we weren’t travelling then there’s nowhere we’d rather be than Norwich, which always has such a fun and festive atmosphere at Easter and…
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Exploring The Christmas Lights In Norwich, 2024
Spending time with kids and giving them a good time doesn’t have to be all theme parks and expensive flights. We’re big fans of free fun too! To celebrate the start of the Christmas season, we decided to take a walk around Norwich (our closest city) and see all of the Christmas lights in the…
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A Great Review of Pettitts Animal Adventure Park
Another day, another post about one of our local adventures! This time a review of Pettitts Animal Adventure park, which is based in Reedham, and is close to both Great Yarmouth and the Norfolk Broads. Pettitts offers theme park rides, animals as well as animal encounters, parks and playgrounds, and entertaining shows. It is a…
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Is The Time and Tide Museum Worth Visiting? A Family Review
The Time and Tide Museum in Great Yarmouth is an attraction we didn’t expect to love, but it turned out to be one of the best indoor things to do in Great Yarmouth. Housed in a former Victorian fish curing factory, the museum tells the story of Great Yarmouth’s fishing heritage, seaside history, and local…
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Challenge Woods at The Nest: A New Adventure in Norwich
Another new adventure for us, and another local adventure too. The Challenge Woods is based at The Nest, which is the Norwich City Football Club Community Hub. Friends of ours had visited, and raved about what a fun (and affordable) experience it was, so we decided to give it a go! The Nest’s Challenge Wood…
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Delicious Eats at Norwich Junkyard Market
Today is one of those rarest posts and rarest occasions: a night out without the kids! And as a dedicated lover of food carts, junk food, and cocktails, there was no better place to go than the Junkyard Market in Norwich, which started as a pop-up and is now a permanent feature in the city….
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A Lazy Saturday Afternoon in Wroxham
We haven’t been on any ‘Big Adventures’ this week, but I thought I would share one of our favourite ways to spend a lazy Saturday afternoon: eating chips and feeding swans in Wroxham! Wroxham is considered the jewel of the Norfolk Broads, and if you’re visiting the area for your summer holiday then you’ll find…
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Brilliant Beccles Lido: Fun With Kids, or Without!
I like to think my boys have inherited a lot from me: my sense of humour, my blue eyes, and my love of travel, to name a few! But one thing that they definitely share with both me and my husband is our love of being in the water; we are a family of fish!…
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Walking in Whitlingham Country Park
If you find yourself near Norwich and at a lose end, then it is possible to get away from the hustle and bustle and enter an idyllic countryside space without actually leaving the city. Whitlingham Country Park looks like one of Norfolk’s famous broads, but it is actually a man-made water space, built on the…
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The Camel Park Oasis in Suffolk is a Hidden Gem
Camel riding is something you think of doing when on exotic holidays in distant, faraway locales. But this weekend we visited the Camel Park Oasis in Suffolk and rode camels in the UK! Camel riding is something that our oldest son has always wanted to do, so we were delighted when we found out about…
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Great Yarmouth Pleasure Beach Review: Traditional, Seaside Fun on a Budget
I have a soft spot for slightly run down British seaside towns, probably because I grew up in one. And if you’re looking for a fun, no-frills, shabby seaside resort then Great Yarmouth definitely fits the bill! Today we took the boys to Great Yarmouth Pleasure Beach. In a pre-Covid world you could buy either…
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Norfolk Adventures: Pirates Island Adventure Golf, Blofeld
As we are lucky enough to live in the Norfolk Broads, a destination I know is popular for Brits looking for Staycations (and let’s be honest, more of us than ever will be staying in the UK for our holidays this year) I thought I would share some of our favourite day trips and adventures…
