Sleeping under canvas, star-filled nights, 'smores and beach days - glamping in South Devon with Readycamp was a great family 'first taste' of camping, with all the magic and none of the hassle.
CF Travels
Wanderlust with smalls – not quite the cocktail in hand, sunlounger travels of my youth – but so much more…
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Port Eliot Festival, Cornwall
Last month I slipped out the house at 6am and whizzed down the coast, over the border and into the wilds of Cornwall to attend the Port Eliot festival.
CF Travels: How travelling as a child changed my outlook
From campervanning around Europe to 2 months in Hong Kong, getting stranded in the Amazon rainforest (true story) and walking the Great Wall of China... there were no 2-week package holidays to Spain for us. They wanted to expose us early and frequently to a mix of cultures - food,…
NEW: The Countryfille guide to South West France
So, after two years living between Devon and France there is so much I want to share with you about this little corner of the Charente region that we now call home.
CF Review: Quinny Zapp travel buggy
I put a little shout out on Instagram last month for this buggy as my first impressions were pretty good. I picked it up on a pre-loved site because while our day-to-day buggy, the Britax B-Motion 3, is completely brilliant, sturdy and a total workhorse (I honestly can’t recommend this…
A summer in France… writing, renovation and relaxing
Reliving my childhood summers in France - renovating a manoir, writing and wrangling two under 5s
CF Travels: Top 5 travel essentials for kids
After travelling a dozen times to France in the last 18 months, plus last week’s jaunt to Italy and various UK staycations with the 4yo and 10mo in tow, I feel pretty qualified to impart my top bits of kit for travel with under 5s. For what it’s worth. None…
CF Travel Guide: Naples with kids
Sometimes the simplest laid plans turn out to be the most stressful don’t they? In the midst of end of term mayhem, organising our 2-month trip to France for the next phase of Chateau renovations and a teething 10 month old, we decided to just nip to Naples for a…
A new Countryfille chapter….
Who knew back in 2011 when I launched Countryfille that the name would become so apt? I originally launched the website to chart our move from hardened city dwellers (I was a magazine editor in London, whilst my husband was the fourth generation to run his family’s ice cream empire…
CF Travels: Vale House Kitchen in Somerset, Foraging course
After the first part of my ‘Solo Mummy Adventure’, cossetted in the luxury of the Bristol Hotel, came rather a rude awakening the following morning, as I dashed off in the pelting rain and fog to the depths of the Somerset countryside: Nonetheless, neither the early start, nor the inclement…
CF Review: The Bristol Hotel, Bristol, UK
The week before last, I lay my head at The Bristol Hotel for the night. It came about as a means to an end, to tide me over between work (I starting a consulting job with a new digital brand in the spring, so spend 1-2 days a week in…
CF Travels: Bristol and Bath – the mummy minibreak
Eeeekk! I’m off on my tod for a full 48-hour solo minibreak. This summer we have covered all bases – baby-friendly Cornwall, romantic bolthole in Dorset, sociable city jaunts to London with friends… now it’s ME TIME. I work in Bristol, so it’s a little bit of a busman’s holiday.…