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About The Place…
Here’s an alternative to climbing up St. Catherine’s Hill to the Mizmaze: hike along the River Itchen from the same car park (its off of Garnier Road at the bridge over the river). The story of our first hike is [...]

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We had a wonderful afternoon walk after the kids’ swimming lessons (like last week, Tosha put up a fuss, let’s hope he’ll settle into the lessons by next week). We’ve written a separate Kids’ Outings page about the walk itself. There are a ton more photos, of course, in our gallery.
We drove the [...]

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Today was Tosha’s first swim lesson. His lesson at 10:20am at St. Swithun’s School’s pool was at about the same time as Tolii, Angus and Rupert’s lesson. And, Katie joined the swim school this term too!
All this and you’d think things would go, well, swimmingly.
Daddy and mummy decided to see if just one [...]

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About The Place…

The Intech Science Centre and Planetarium is just outside Winchester. Its spread across two floors and includes a planetarium which is linked to the main pyramid by a small corridor. There is an outside picnic area and a café.
 

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About The Place…
Here’s a recipe for a great day out with the kids: Hike up Winchester’s St. Catherine’s Hill at Twyford Down to reach its Mizmaze; and then around its top before heading down the other size to stroll along the Itchen River.
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Four days off. With the kids. Thankfully, with two grannies too!
Friday: sunburning daddy at Finkley Down Farm Park; Tolii meanwhile shuttled between THE slide and the monkey swing. Tosha took the whole place in, but especially liked his first ride on the monkey swing. Back home we had our first BBQ of [...]

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