The Exploring Five Blog

We visited Lapland the week before Christmas 2022 and stayed in Levi. We also spent a day in Helsinki and a day in Rovaniemi taking the...

To begin our 2 week French adventure we caught the overnight Brittany Ferry from Portsmouth to St Malo. We boarded around 6pm and we...

For the second week of our French adventure we drove from the Vendee to the Il De Re, an island just off the coast near La Rochelle but...

After researching ALOT we decided to spend the majority of our time in Levi, 3 hrs further North than Rovaniemi and way inside the Artic...

🎅 Santa Experience- Elves Hideaway. (£320) 9am-12pm. (No rush to leave on time though) We took a long time choosing where to meet Santa...

A few years ago we did a fantastic trip to Italy, our children were 3&1 at the time. We flew into Pisa and stayed in a cabin on a...

Roompot Beach Resort Nieuwvliet-Bad,Holland After our stay at Efteling (read here for Efteling and here for the hotel) we drove back...

If I’m honest I always was put off Majorca and I don’t know why. Maybe the travel snob in me remembering 18-30 type holidays in Magaluf....

A theme park with a fairy tale theme. Rumour has it that it's where Walt Disney got his inspiration from? We visited with 4 adults and...

Our Easter break 2023 was a trip to Holland inspired by Little Clogs. We took the ferry Dover to Calais and headed up to Efteling theme...

After we spent a few days in Billund visiting Legoland (which you can read more about here). We hired a car and drove to Odense, we...

A few years ago we had a wonderful week in Denmark and an amazing trip to Legoland, Billund. This is the original Legoland and next the...

Oh we love Lake Garda. We went once about 8 years ago when our oldest was 18 mths and again in the summer of 2020 with our 3 children who...