Claire Potter is a freelance writer who is always looking for mini-adventures and (good) mischief to get up to with – or without! – her family. She is the author of Keeping the little blighters busy: 50 refreshingly different things to do with your kids before they’re 12 ¾. Claire has also written for the family section of The Guardian, The Green Parent magazine and was a winner in both The Observer's and The Guardian’s travel writing competitions.
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A perfect antidote to the manicured gardens and twee tea shops of the Cotswolds.
Wedged between the hard grey granite of Aberdeen city centre and the steely-blue harshness of the North sea, Footdee is like a hippy haven dropped from space.
A magical, surreal, Victorian garden that’ll leave you wondering if someone dropped a tab of acid in your coffee this morning.
Fancy buying a wedding dress, a 1930s French newspaper and some vacuum-packed frogs today?
The horse’s is light and fatty, the yak’s is crunchy and the Canadian seal’s has to be ordered in advance. Apparently.
Waiters in pyjamas, squashy sofas, cartoons on the box and hundreds of cereal concoctions.
Sleep so close to the sea so that the whoosh of the breaking waves fills your head and you dream your bed is floating on the water…
