is superb with the Meribel Olympic sports centre offering swimming (complete with slides and tubes), ten-pin bowling, ice-skating and a climbing wall.Feature continues on next slide... 

and lots of snacks,4 Stop regularly Take your time and pause to play a game of pooh sticks, climb trees, scramble over stiles and play hide-and-seek in the bushes.5 Choose your route Keep your children interested by picking routes with winding paths, hills

climb up the beacon. Country Park, Burton Dassett, Warwickshire, CV47 2AB. Tel: 01827 872660 or visit www.warwickshire.gov.uk  - The Climb If your child can’t pass a tree without climbing it, then this state-of-the-art indoor climbing centre is perfect

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Heidis and mini-Bonds in the mountains: there are carriage rides, snowboarding tuition, ice-skating, climbing-wall sessions and pottery – anything and everything can be arranged locally. Further afield, the pretty town of Annecy is less than an hour

. Suitable from eight years. Tel: 020 8269 4620 or visit www.thedavidbeckhamacademy.com4. Go climbing, Northumberland Children will love Alnwick Garden’s huge treehouse and adventure bridges. Suitable for all ages. Tel: 01665 511350 or visit www

of your lawn uncut will encourage small creatures to set up home in the long grass.Provide food Put out a variety of nuts, seeds and fat balls to attract birds when natural food sources are scarce during the chilly winter months.Rise and climb Plants

at The Blue Lagoon for fish and chips, or Breakers Café for a pasty. Peruse the local crafts in the Round House and Capstan Gallery, then rejoin the coastal path for the steady climb to an old coastguard’s lookout. There’s a superb view across Whitesand Bay

Holmes, and offers nature discovery walks, rock climbing, yoga, picnics, swimming, mountain biking, fossil hunting, alpine activity trails, handicrafts and painting, tennis and Italian cookery classes. For more details, visit www

white-knuckle rides, but we took it easy on the Skyride that provides great views of the park and the children’s playground with their scrambling nets and climbing frames. Predictably, Joe was especially taken with the fountain area. By day four, we were