Two children, one hundred miles

Travelling with one child is a challenge. Travelling with TWO is like doing a Rubix cube with one hand tied behind my back. Just packing the car was a feat of engineering. I am glad I paid attention when we did tesselating shapes at school. The main issue was the pushchair. We have a largish pushchair - well it fills most of the boot anyway. If we had been using suitcases, we would have been lost, but as we haven't got enough, I used shopping bags. These were heavy duty shopping bags. One each for us and one for food. They fitted in nicely around the pushchair - see, tesellating shapes. We managed to fit children in and had room for Monopoly and welly boots. What more could we need.

This was the first family holiday with all four of us. Our destination was Norfolk, where we were staying at Weybourne Forest Lodges - A-frame wooden lodges set in a beautiful pinewood, with views of the sea and lovely walks in every direction. You feel like you are in the middle of a film set, so it is perfect for adventure games. The first year we went, we pretended were in the forest of Endor being followed by General Grevious. We were going through a Star Wars phase at the time. Every stick was either a blaster or a lightsabre. There were a lot of sticks.

This year, we were staying with Granny, Grandpa and Uncle. This was great for lots of reasons, but it also meant that there were other people on hand to play Snakes and Ladders and Chess with number one son. And he is such a cheat. He gets it from his Granny. She makes up the questions when we play Trivial Pursuit!

While in Norfolk we visited some lovely cafes and restaurants. There are some nice tea shops in Sheringham and the Lobster Pub did amazing ham, egg and chips. The eggs were all double yolkers!

The next day we went to Deepdale Cafe in Burnham Deepdale on the coastal road from Sheringham to Hunstanton. They do big portions of everything from breakfasts to local seafood. The open kitchens are a great source of entertainment, their home made cakes look amazing and they have cheesecake of the day! I had smoked haddock on mash with spinach and a poached egg.

We shared a portion of the gluten-free fruit crumble, it was passed around the table so we got a mouthful each. Is this what normal families do? Let's face it, we are not normal.

We did tea at Cley bird watching centre. We are regulars here, not just because of the cake (this is Bakewell Victoria Sponge) ......

......but the beautiful views of the marshes.

We had Sunday lunch at a new find - the Crown Inn at East Rudham. It's a beautifully renovated country pub with big wooden tables. The menu was mouthwatering. There was duck three ways (including duck leg bubble and squeak) but we went for the Sunday roast. Big slices of medium rare beef, massive Yorkshires with really yellow middles and parsnips roasted with wholegrain mustard. We will go back.

All of these places had great customer service and baby changing. And if that's not enough, The Lobster pub also had hair straighteners in the ladies loo at a pound a go. A girl always likes to look her best.