Touring

Water Parks 

Armacao de Pera Inflatable Aqua Park

Zoomarine

Falaraki Waterpark

Yas Waterworld

Theme Parks

Disney World Florida

Universal Studios Florida

Kennedy Space Centre

Coney Island

Legoland

Zoomarine

Hoi An Memories Land

Books

All

The Northern Lights by Phillip Pullman (audio book)

MT

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (Not finished yet!)

The Sandness Story by the Sandness History Group

St. Leger, The Family and the Race by Moya Frenz St. Leger

12 Rules for Life, An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan Peterson

The Shortest History of Greece by James Heneage

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Shots for Lower Scoring by Beverly Lewis

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Standy, Gentlemen by Laurence Stern (Abandoned – too hard!)

KO

The Diary of Anne Frank

The Shortest History of Greece by James Heneage

The Squiggly Career by Helen Tupper and Sarah Ellis (lost)

DT

Tune It Out by Jamie Sumner

The Diary of Anne Frank

RT

Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone by JK Rowling

The Fart That Changed the World by Stephen Mangan

Items lost/broken

Eye mask [RT]

Cochem christmas decoration [KO]

DT’s Nikes 😦 are in Vietnam somewhere  [DT]

Santorini Hat – [KO]

Shorts [MT]

Suitcase (lost a wheel on an Athens bus) [KO]

The replacement suitcase – handle, lock mechanism, zip (so far) [KO]

Denim shirt [DT]

Book [KO]

Yankees cap [MT – somewhere on the cruise ship]

Items packed, not used

Yr3 homework book

Digital camera and charger

iphone running case

Items should have packed

More sun cream (MT)

More chargers/adaptors (KO)

Purple boots (RT)

Over rated/priced activities

Buckingham Palace – Scaffolding, about 10 rooms and half of it closed, through in an hour.

Hoi An, Basket Boats – if only we knew that this was actually crabbing in a mozzie infested backwater…

Santorini – pretty but way over priced and hyped. If you really travel there just to get an Instagram photo – you are a loser.

Under rated/priced activities

Yankees game – Juneteenth special offer, party atmosphere, family entertainment

Coney Island – you only pay for what you want to go on + it’s old school fair rides

Titanic Museum, Belfast – this was really good.

Fredericks – 10 quid for a kids three course meal – love you!

Armacao de Pera Inflatable Aqua Park – 1 hour of epic fun

Vietnam, generally

Modes of transport

Plane

Train

Tram/light rail

Walking

Tube/subway

Ferry

Hire cars

Taxi 

Aston Martin DB11

Horse drawn carriage

Cyclo

Golf buggy

Electric Buggy

Pedlo

Coach

Bus

Scooter

Bike

Nick’s old van

Cable car

Cruise ship

Tender

Basket boats

Tuk Tuk

Canoe

Missed Opportunities

Istanbul’s mosques

Footy game in Istanbul

Santorini donkey ride

Notre Dame, Paris

Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

Most random people/places/activities

Firth buying us Chick-Fil-A for dinner [KO’s nomination]

David’s Becfola fairy tale terrace, Belfast [All]

Basket Boats in Hoi An [MT]

Roxy meeting her classmate in an Hanoi hotel [RT]

The “steak and kidney” Scouser [KO]

Daisy and Roxy trying to understand Gifford’s accent [DT]

Jorge from Panama [DT]

20,000 + step days [KO’s count]

23,412 – 24 June 2025 – Palace of Versaille

23,306 – 30 June 2025 – Edinburgh City Centre

23,644 – 13 July 2025 – Dublin City Centre

26,165 – 30 July 2025 – London with Katy

20,090 – 26 August 2025 – Amsterdam City Centre

21,673 – 7 Sept 2025 – Athens (Shopping and Parthenon)

20,518 – 9 Sept 2025 – Chania, Crete

25,108 – 14 Sept 2025 – Istanbul’s non visit of the mosques

Places Roxy faded on us

Ephesus – it was hot, hot, hot

Dubai’s Grand Souk – a classic Dad idea…

Hanoi – walking around the lake

Hoi An – the last night

HCMC – the mental market (‘Please can we stop Dad…’)

Key attractions covered in scaffold

The Flat Iron Building, New York

Palace of Versailles

Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris (to be fair this one was not a surprise)

The Royal Mile, Edinburgh (I’m counting hoarding off the entire road down the Mile)

Buckingham Palace

Every ruin in Athens

The Blue Mosque, Istanbul

Notre Dame Cathedral of Saigon, HCMC