Taking your baby camping for the first time can be a daunting experience. I know, because I’ve been there! This review is here to help you keep your baby safe and warm at night, so that they can get a good night’s sleep, and you can too! The youngest baby I’ve taken car-camping was 5…
We really put helmets through their paces in this family! Here are our top picks for helmets for little kids and big kids, based on our experiences of using these helmets daily. Click on each one to see the detail about why we picked it. Best all-rounder and most innovative helmet: Woom Best helmet for…
Planning your first cycling tour with your child can be daunting. There are so many questions…how will we carry them? Where will they sleep? What will they do all day? Is it safe? In this article I’ve tried to answer all the questions that I had when we took our first baby on a cycling…
Brittany is my favourite place to bike tour with children. I used to holiday in Brittany as a child, and I have a huge amount of nostalgia for this land of sunshine, beaches, chateaux, crepes and ice creams! The vast network of quiet country lanes make it a wonderful place to cycle with children, and…
Orkney is a brilliant place for a family cycling tour, with amazing historic sites, sandy beaches, quiet roads, and boats for island-hopping. Read on for below for some route and accommodation suggestions and things to see and do on your Orkney bike tour. Getting to Orkney Stating the obvious, you will need to take a…
Since bike touring with kids, our gear list seems to have multiplied exponentially! These days I write a comprehensive list when we get back from a tour, listing what we took, what worked well, and what didn’t. Here is my gear list from our most recent tour, to help you get started. Every family is…
“So you survived then! We thought you were completely mad but we didn’t want to discourage you.” My Dad’s cheerful words on our return from our first family cycling holiday – our eldest was 8 months old. I had myself been harbouring a suspicion that we might be completely mad…I knew plenty of friends who…
