Paid collaboration with The Red Dragon Centre We kick-started the Easter holidays with a trip to The Red Dragon Centre in Cardiff Bay today to check out the new Spring Safari Trail. Six large safari animals have made the entertainment complex’s concourse area their home for the school holidays. They’re...
AD| Paid collaboration with Art Fund and The Wild Escape Children across the UK are invited to create an animal-inspired art work that will become part of a new major collaborative online exhibition. The Wild Escape is a nationwide mass participation art project that will inspire children to set free...
Schools in Cardiff are out for the Easter holidays from Saturday1 to Sunday 16 April – and with it come a host of events to keep families entertained. It’s great to see big venues and attractions putting on free and low costs events, with a number of trails across the...
Advertising collaboration with Advicelink Cymru and the Welsh Government Sgrolio lawr i ddarllen y blog yn Gymraeg The last few months have been some of the toughest many of us have experienced financially, with the cost of living crisis impacting people dramatically. However, help is available, with the Welsh Government...
We received complimentary tickets to Disney on Ice for the purpose of this review We’ve been lucky to see Disney On Ice a few times over the years, the last time being 2019. The productions have always been incredible with sensational dancing, jaw-dropping special effects, and costumes that look like...
Thank you to Welsh National Opera for providing us with tickets to Play Opera Live for the purpose of this review Even before today’s Play Opera Live performance begins, we’ve already spent time learning about the backstage wizardry that goes on behind the scenes at Welsh National Opera. And while...
It’s half term in Cardiff from Monday 20-Friday 24 February and as always there are plenty of activities and events for families in and around Cardiff…. including plenty of options that are free or low cost. I have rounded up everything I can find below, including arts and crafts, historical...
Paid collaboration with Dydd Miwsig Cymru / Welsh Language Music Day – It’s Dydd Miwsig Cymru, Welsh Language Music Day, this Friday – a chance to celebrate and enjoy music made in Welsh, as well as supporting the vibrant Welsh language music industry and promoting the Welsh language. Friday 10...
Advertorial/Paid partnership with National Museum Cardiff Have you ever wondered how they make realistic-looking wounds on Casualty? Or what it’s like to present the weather in front of a green screen? Or maybe how the costumes from your favourite TV shows are made? On Saturday 11 February, you’ll get the chance...
Thank you to Wales Millennium Centre for providing us with press tickets to Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty for the purpose of this review – Forget the Sleeping Beauty familiar from the Disney animation. And – even though Matthew Bourne sets his Sleeping Beauty to Tchaikovsky’s classic ballet score – forget...
It’s a bumper month for family-friendly theatre productions and other live performances, with everything from big musicals, ballets, adaptations of much-loved books, TV favourites and even Disney on Ice coming to South Wales in the coming weeks. Many of these take place in half term, many are selling out fast....