What makes a City Adventurer? A city is full of opportunities for exploration and discovery. It offers the chance to have an adventure. Just take a look at your own city and you’ll see lots of excitement right on your doorstep. Think you have what it takes to be a City Adventurer. Answer the following questions… More Are you a City Adventurer?
If you want to get more out of your next city break, go on a treasure hunt. Why a treasure hunt, and not a guided walk, you may ask. A guided walk will point out interesting features but a heritage-based treasure hunt has so much more to offer. It is a walk through history while solving… More Get more out of your city break
This year help your dad to release his inner Indiana Jones by taking him on a Treasure Hunts In London adventure. Father’s Day Treasure Hunt Taking place on Sunday 18th June 2017, this is an afternoon exploring the area around Piccadilly followed by drinks in a Listed building. The theme of this heritage hunt is Naughty or Nice… More Treasure Hunt on Father’s Day
London’s countryside and urban heritage. Today Chingford is a suburb of London on the London/Essex border that sits on the edge of Epping Forest. Epping Forrest is owned by the City of London. Originally the whole parish of Chingford lay within the ancient Forest of Essex. it comprised of three forest hamlets and was a scattered farming… More Chingford – Discover London’s countryside and urban heritage
Bring the family on an adventure around the Spitalfields area of London. You will discover heritage hidden behind virtual eggs on Treasure Hunts In London’s Fairytale in the City treasure hunt. Spitalfields Settled by the Romans, Spitalfields was mainly fields until the French Protestant refugees called the Huguenot moved to the area 1685. They established… More Discover hidden heritage around Spitalfields
The National Museum of Wales was founded in 1905, with its royal charter granted in 1907. The Cardiff Museum building, designed by Arnold Dunbar Smith and Cecil Brewer, is part of the civic complex in Cathays Park . It officially opened in 1927. The National Museum of Art opened in 2011. The National Museum Cardiff is full of… More Discover the National Museum Cardiff
Explore Brixton and Discover It’s Street Art There was a time when street art was merely graffiti. Now art on the street is being commissioned by the local council. The nature of street art: spontaneous, public and mostly fleeting. Abandoned buildings can be transformed by a few sprays of paint. The makeshift canvas, tagged by its author reveals a… More Street Art in Brixton
In 2011, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution which recognised happiness as a “fundamental human goal” and called for “a more inclusive, equitable and balanced approach to economic growth that promotes the happiness and well-being of all peoples”. In 2012 the UN General Assembly decreed that the International Day of Happiness would be observed every year on 20… More The International Day of Happiness – 20th March
Do you ever feel you are getting too old for games? Well don’t. There is growing evidence that accomplishing novel or challenging tasks can help the brain. And when games are played as a group, they can spark creativity, imagination, and innovation. Our brains don’t stop growing as we age and its been revealed that the brain… More Too old for games?
New Year resolutions – lose weight, get fit, drink less, etc….. At this time of year everyone is talking about New Year resolutions. Some have been using the phrase “New Year, New You”. But what makes a “new you” anyway? Possibly a slimmer, fitter you? New Year resolutions have been described as things you resolve you will… More New year, New You?