Cuisine & Culture the Chinese Family Way
It has been a tough Winter but Spring has finally arrived. Now it is time to ditch the thick duvet and welcome the cooling blanket! This Elegear cooling blanket has come just in time for this season. This cleverly reversible design blanket is made with two different kinds of materials for all seasons. On one side, it is made from 100% cotton for spring and autumn use which keeps you warm and cosy, while the other side is made of Japanese cooling fibre to stay cool on our hot summer nights.
Travelling by car with your family is a great idea. You can get close and have a lot of positive emotions. In addition, if you have a van, you can easily buy a rooftop tent. Such a device will be very useful, as you can get a lot of new options. Here are seven reasons to buy a rooftop tent for family travel.
Twitter party alert this Wednesday 31st March 2021! You are all invited to the Big Little Tent Festival Twitter Party, which will be this Wednesday from 7 to 8 pm! So remember to save the date and make yourself available! I will be taking part in this Twitter party along with other bloggers to learn more about the Big Little Tent Festival and the joy of camping! Please follow our host @biglittletent on Twitter.
It is the camping season but have you got everything you need? If you have followed our blog recently, you may have read that we did a garden family sleepover in our new house. It is a good experience to start our children on as they have not done camping before. Camping from home is a luxury to have as we can take advantage of the comfort of home facilities!
If this is your first time camping or you are thinking of trying camping with your children, why not start from home. Get yourself and your children use to sleeping in a sleeping bag and building your tents before moving on to cooking your own food!
Did you know that a quarter of UK adults are classed as physically inactive and only a third of children in Britain spend more than an hour a day outdoors? This is why, in 2016, Explorers Connect founder Belinda Kirk started the Wild Night Out. Millets have gotten behind it and once a year, they encourage people of all ages to get outside and enjoy the outdoors for the evening. This year’s Wild Night Out fell on the 29th June 2019. Did you join in too?
Stargazing Pods is Alton Towers Resort’s brand new accommodation that had just opened to the public on the 12th April 2019! These unique and cosy pods are set around a picturesque village where guests can embrace the outdoors and use the telescopes to look at the night sky with easy access to the theme park.
Chessington World of Adventures Resort’s Explorer Glamping is opening to the public on the 27th May 2016 and includes 35 permanent tents! There are 31 round ‘Glamping’ tents comprising of one double bed and two singles which are able to sleep four. There are also four premium ‘Amboseli Tents’ with a double bed, and separate second sleeping area with three single beds and additional living space.
Last week, I was invited to attend the first-ever Genuine Thermos Brand Coffee Masterclass. Taking inspiration from the huge success of the ‘Overnight Coffee Challenge’ that took American coffee lovers by storm, I was invited to experience the remarkable heat retention capabilities of Genuine Thermos Brand Stainless King™ Vacuum Insulated Beverage Flasks.
They have partnered with the renowned Prufrock coffee house (in London) to allow for one-on-one engagement with the expert baristas to provide a truly immersive environment for an in-depth introduction to the perfect home brewed coffee and share some insider tips on how to buy better coffee – from decoding coffee bag label information to understanding just how important the quality of the beans really is. Besides that we also learnt how to froth the milk and make espresso! I have no clue in coffee tasting despite drinking a fair bit of coffee! It was a very interesting class from smelling to swirling to sipping the coffee with a loud noise (like eating a bowl of noodles). I am a sweet tooth and normally add a lot of sugar and milk into my coffee. Having to sip it as a black coffee almost killed my tongue! The aroma was great but too bitter to taste after tasting 10 different types of coffee. But it helped me to appreciate the different brands of coffee and where they are from play an important part too!
Two weeks ago, we received the Certainly Wood S’Mores kit which included a fire starter kit with kiln dried logs; kiln dried kindling; Flamers Natural Firelighters; CW matches plus a package of digestives; marshmallows; chocolate; wooden sticks; a s’mores recipe and a graphic showing you how to make this delicious BBQ treat in a fire pit or chimenea.
I’m so glad that Spring has finally arrived and now it’s time to get out to enjoy some outdoor activities. We have not tried glamping before but it is definitely something I would need to try to tick off my top 100 bucket list.
