A little while ago Being A Mummy wrote a great post listing some Easter Holidays ideas for those around London one of which was Knebworth House. It's just up the road from us and yet I hadn't visited since my own childhood and didn't even know of the existence of the Dinosaur Trail she mentions. So this morning we threw together an impromptu picnic and drove over there.
We didn't bother visiting the house as it was a beautiful day and I guessed the kids would rather be outside than traipsing around a stately home. So we just paid for admission to the gardens and park which includes the Dinosaur Trail, Fort Knebworth (the adventure playground) Astroglide and Shutes and the Miniature Railway.
They loved it. It was great to spend the whole day outdoors in the sun. The Dinosaur Trail was a big hit, featuring about fifty odd life size dinosaurs loitering around looking shifty. Ok, so maybe they weren't quite so convincing as the animatronic T-rex at the Natural History Museum, but what they lacked in quality they made up for in quantity. I don't profess to be any sort of dinosaur expert, but there were lots that I hadn't come across before, including one gigantic pre-historic crocodile thing that I'm sure they just made up to make it all a bit more scary.
The Astroglide slide was the biggest thrill of the day for the kids (alongside the ice creams of course.) While I was reminded, yet again, that I am becoming an old woman by particularly enjoying walking around the walled kitchen garden.
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