As I am writing this me, my partner and my 15 month old are on the train to Shrewsbury so though I would write a blog post on tips with travelling with a one year old.

First thing we find easier to do is to wake her up just before we are about to leave and keep her in her pyjamas and take some clothes with us to get her changed into when she’s more awake so we are not faffing around Tring to get her ready to get into the car on time and also take something for her to have for breakfast while on the train, it’s just something that makes the morning run alot more smoothly.

Next is take activities, plan things to occupy your toddler while they are travelling so they don’t get bored, we packed a colouring book and some films downloaded with Disney life also on the way back we brought a Peppa pig magazine that came with stickers and figures.

SNACKS! snacks and more snacks! There is nothing worse than having a HANGRY toddler stuck on a train otherwise you’ll end up spending a small fortune buying smacks from the food trolley everytime it goes past and it goes past ALOT.

The most important thing I would say when travelling with any child is to stay calm and patient children especially toddlers feed off your stress if your stressed than they will be stressed just stay calm and be patient they don’t know that they can’t just run around on the train. The calmer we were the more we sat and thought about what esme will want to do or eat and the calmer we all were the smoother the journey went.

Anyway thank you for reading my blog we had a fab day out if you wanna see more go check out my YouTube channel (mummy.megz) where I vlogged our day out (day in the life video) and my Instagram @mummy.megz where I posted plenty of photos and see you next time!

Hello and welcome to reasons why I love living by the sea!

The first and probably best reason is that it’s FREE!

It’s a lovely cheap day out where you can scoff all the fish, chips and ice cream completely guilt free because your at THE BEACH!

over the summer it was so easy to have a lovely and cheap day out that we would all enjoy (even though esme was unsure about the sand).

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Other reasons why I love living by the sea is the endless amounts of photo opportunities and let’s not forget the endless amounts of buckets and spades ready to build sandcastles!

Overall we spent all of last summer building sandcastles, playing in the sand, walking along the seafront, going for fish and chips (obviously ice cream aswell😍).

We also showed esme the donkeys but she really didn’t know what to think if them 😂 but most importantly we were making memories!

Thank you for reading and see you next time!