Holidays Archives | Gemma in the Cotswolds

Gemma September 6, 2019 Brand Collaborations

Travelling with a large family – tips & tricks for a stress free holiday | AD

The summer holidays are over, and back to school is in full swing – along with the cooler, damper mornings. Instead of mourning summer and days on the beach, it just makes me want to plan another family holiday. Life can be incessant, particularly when you have school age children, as you are always thinking about homework, after school clubs and trying to get everyone out of the house on time. For me its important to have something to look forward to – whether thats a big holiday abroad, a trip to the coast, or a long weekend away. With…

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Gemma May 29, 2018 Holidays

OUR WEEKEND STAY AT TREVORNICK, CORNWALL | Review

As a child some of my favourites memories were our holidays to Devon in a static caravan – and for Ell, although his family stayed in Cornwall. It’s actually a tradition we’ve carried on since having our own children – they love caravan holidays, and they love Cornwall. We were so excited to be invited for a weekend stay at Trevornick, Holywell Bay in one of their brand new static caravans. Trevornick is a 5* family owned site 5.5 miles from Newquay, with over 600 camping and touring pitches, 36 fully equipped Eurotents, and from the start of the 2018…

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Gemma November 8, 2017 Holidays

Our Holiday to Bluestone Wales – October 2017

We are huge fans of a self catering holiday. As a family on the ‘larger side’ it is usually the most affordable option for us. It is also the easiest option, as despite our children getting older now, and being out of the bottle stage (and not too far from being out of the nappy stage), we still seem to take a ridiculous amount of things with us when we go anywhere. We couldn’t wait for our visit to beautiful Bluestone Resort in Pembrokeshire, Wales. It is not an area of the UK that we’ve previously explored and everyone who…

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Gemma August 23, 2017 Holidays

Our Summer Holiday to Cornwall | August 2017

*WARNING* Photo Heavy Post Everytime we go away, or have a little trip somewhere I get totally camera happy, and take hundreds of photos. As much as I would love to share every single one on Instagram I think everyone would end up bored of me, hence why I like popping them all into a blog post. We went for our second visit to Cornwall this year, to the North Coast, about 20 minutes from Newquay. This was our annual summer holidays caravan holiday, which the kids love, and we love because it is just so chilled out. All they…

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Gemma July 6, 2017 Holidays

Our Holiday to Carlyon Bay, St Austell | June 2017

We’ve not long returned from our holiday to Cornwall – and the holiday blues have well and truly set back in, with the return to the school run, and the madness that the en dot the school summer term brings. We had a wonderful time away – not really doing much. We visit Cornwall at least once a year and we’ve done all the touristy bits now, so our days are mainly spent on the beach, digging, building and paddling. This time we went with my parents, and stayed in a gorgeous property in Carlyon Bay, near Charlestown (where they…

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Gemma September 20, 2016 Holidays

What we did Summer 2016 – Week 3 aka The Brushneens go to Cornwall

I’m so totally behind with all my summer posts at the moment, but it is lovely as I’m having fun going back through the photos more than a month on. All of my ‘big camera’ photos are in a separate photo heavy posts which you can find here, but these are my iPhone memories, with a few big camera photos thrown in for good measure. Every year we try and get in a family holiday to Cornwall. We have been going nearly every year since Izzie was a tiny baby, and sometimes we go with my parents and have stayed…

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