[Ad – Gifted Products] Every other Monday we go down to our local Geek Retreat to play a tabletop game and have milkshakes. This week, our tabletop game was History Heroes: Artists card game, which is a twist on learning about artists. We have previously played a History Heroes card game, that was all about learning about history itself, so we were pretty interested in seeing what this card game was all about.
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For the first time ever, Yoto is hosting a Yoto Originals Week, which is focused on behind the scenes looks, creativity, characters, and artistry that forms their exclusive original audio content created by Yoto Studios. During Yoto Originals Week, which is from May 11th to 18th, there will be 13 new Yoto Original Titles and the entire Yoto Originals range will be 20% off for the full week.
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Dann and I had a little overnight in Cambridge, to pretend to be tourists in a new place, essentially. When walking around one of the streets in the sunshine, we stumbled upon the Cambridge Gin Laboratory, which had a bunch of events listed on their door. They seem to do a collection of things from making your own gin to the history of gin, to a gin cocktail class that we ended up attending called Mix It!
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In our explorations of the different cafes in Austria, we went to Cafe Hawelka one morning! Cafe Hawelka feels very homely, like it hasn’t changed in years, transporting you back in time. It is one of the last great traditional Central European coffee houses, ran by the family that founded it 80 years ago. Over the years, a large number of famous writers and artists have frequented this cafe, so it’s got tons of history in it too.
Working out a proper Cambridge-to-Kent weekend with three under-tens and no car took us about three tries. The first attempt lost a Saturday morning to a missed connection at St Pancras. The second was derailed by a flat iPad outside Faversham. The third went well enough that it is now the family default for a long weekend when no one fancies the M25.
Below is the version that worked. Train times we actually catch, snacks that survive the journey, and the one bit of kit nobody warns you about: how the data signal in your pocket goes from city-fast in London to genuinely patchy by the time you are pulling into Margate.
