Author Archives: mariekreft

Pas-de-Calais: a cheat’s holiday

Posted on December 29, 2012

For my birthday in October Steve booked us a week’s holiday in a cottage in a rural French village called Tortefontaine, just over an hour’s drive from the ferry terminal at Calais. Until then, the very name Calais conjured up … Continue reading →

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Three travel articles in Motherhood magazine

Posted on November 8, 2012

I’m delighted to have been commissioned by Motherhood magazine to write three articles for its ‘Travel with Kids Guide’ this month – about flying in pregnancy and holidays with small children. Did you know all Singapore Airlines’ cabin crew are … Continue reading →

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Herefordshire with a babe in arms

Posted on August 27, 2012

Me, my husband and our baby on a self-catering week in Aylton, near Ledbury. It wasn’t the most ambitious of holidays. One of the leaflets in our rented cottage was for the Birmingham Botanical Gardens … less than five miles … Continue reading →

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Searching for Shuttle: whale-watching in Nova Scotia

Posted on August 20, 2012

As the Mega Nova fishing boat carries me and a dozen other hopeful whale-watchers into the Bay of Fundy, our chance of seeing whales feels slim. Brier Island, where we boarded, has been snarled in fog since the evening before. … Continue reading →

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Legflaps

Posted on August 2, 2012

I was coming down with a cold. My throat felt raw and my forehead was burning. Determined not to miss out on a single hour in Chengdu, I dragged myself around the city alongside Steve, slurping giant bowls of hot … Continue reading →

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Busy

Posted on July 15, 2012

Apologies for the lack of updates … I’m in the final editing stage of my book (and soon to be working with a talented Birmingham-based illustrator called Ian Dodds) and of course very busy with Vincent. Baby V, Steve and … Continue reading →

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Prey

Posted on May 7, 2012

As I pushed Vincent’s pram towards the bus stop for the 11C to Harborne, all kinds of horrific scenarios were running through my mind. Pram wheels get trapped between bus and kerb, baby falls out, driver pulls away … I … Continue reading →

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Fast food

Posted on April 23, 2012

Steve, Vincent and I were taking a Sunday jolly in Stratford-upon-Avon. It was 22 April and Shakespeare’s birthday celebrations were underway in his home town – a point entirely lost on the bloke we overheard outside Costa Coffee on Bridge … Continue reading →

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Vincent’s first holiday: the motherland

Posted on April 22, 2012

Vincent was six weeks old when we bundled him up on his first road trip: to my home city of Norwich, three-and-a-half-hours’ drive away, for the Easter weekend. It was a bit of a cheat – a holiday ‘lite’ – … Continue reading →

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Baby on board

Posted on March 27, 2012

Further to my previous post, I’m overjoyed to tell you that my baby son Vincent was born on Saturday 18 February at Birmingham Women’s Hospital. Nothing could have prepared me for the emotions that have, for me, come with motherhood: … Continue reading →

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