With a couple of hours to spare, we took the little ones over to Bean and Brush Cafe in Sale. Unsure of exactly where we were going we parked in the M&S car park, perfect, except it’s a maximum of an hour and a very efficient car parking attendant is on standby. So perhaps try the Tesco&r...

I’d been wanting to return to Trentham Gardens since my first visit a couple of years ago. Finally over the half term I saw my opportunity and headed down the M6 to the gardens. It was a glorious sunny, but cold day and the gardens didn’t disappoint. Our first stop however was to the sho...

Here you'll discover a ground-floor chocolate shop selling a gorgeous selection of handmade chocolates, and an upstairs cafe offering, amongst other things, 14 different flavours of hot chocolate that you make yourself by immersing a chocolate bar in hot milk! Â If you don't want your child to ea...