Great ideas to keep your children busy with 365Tickets!
School’s out, the kids are clamouring for things to do, and you’re looking forward to enticing them away from their gadgets with some fun outdoor activities, but what if it rains? 365 tickets have the school holidays covered, with both indoor and outdoor attractions at cut prices. In bad weather, why not try a bit of education by stealth by taking them to venues which reflect periods of history and books they are studying?
Taking note of visitors’ demands for more detailed information, Dickens World in Kent have replaced the indoor boat ride through the attraction with an interactive guided walking tour, led by enthusiastic performing arts professionals who will make you feel that you are really back in the Victorian era and experiencing the same sights, sounds and smells as the popular author and social reformer. Tours last around 90 minutes and tales are retold by costumed characters, who will explain the rigid social structures of Dickens’ times, as you wander through cobbled gas lit streets, dark narrow alleys and across rickety bridges, encountering the good, the ghostly and the downright nasty on your journey! If you want the kids to realise how lucky they are, a visit to the Victorian Classroom should do the trick, and Marshalsea Debtors Prison, where Dickens’ dad did time, will strike fear in the hearts of many parents!
Students of the works of Chaucer can see his works brought to life at Canterbury Tales, Kent, and younger siblings will find the lurid stories highly amusing! 14th century poet and writer Geoffrey Chaucer, way ahead of his time with his ironic and critical look at medieval life, saw his contemporaries as falling into 3 main categories – those who pray (the clergy) those who fight (the nobility) and those who work (the commoners) At the Canterbury Tales experience, visitors are invited to join in a group of pilgrims on a journey through five of Chaucer’s best known tales to the shrine of martyred Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket in London. Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales is storytelling contest in which individual pilgrims compete for a free meal at the Tabard Inn on their return. A costumed guide at the Inn prepares you for your journey, and another at the Shrine will listen to your account of the tales of romance, deception, bawdiness and revenge you heard on the way!
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