Things I have learned so far from our holidays:
1. The Roman Baths in, er, Bath are great (I mean the museum is great) and have a nice audio guide with different stories for kids, adults, people who want to listen to Bill Bryson etc. You can flip between them, which R appreciated when she got fed up with actors pretending to be Romans.
2. Wookey Hole is a lovely and exciting set of caves spoiled by an overpriced and very random not-any-theme-I-can- discern park attached. It does have a ye olde halle of mirrors, though, which was quite fun. The 'restaurant' was dire, however, and I get v. annoyed at the assumption in lots of these places in the UK that kids will eat only chips accompanied by some sort of reformed and fried 'meat' product. We were told we couldn't have anything else in a child's portion. Why not?
3. What counts as an 'A' road is geographically very variable. Our sat nav is quite confused and counts as a junction things that are just very big bends in the road. I swear there was a note of panic in her voice this afternoon.
4. S and I are ploughing through a box set of Mad Men season 1 in the evenings. I'm loving it; not sure yet if I find Donald Draper totally evil or someone I really want to be.
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