Gillian Alexandra

Anybody who knows me knows I’m a little bit Instagram-obsessed!  I currently run four in total, my personal one future.mrs.brown ( which gets neglected because I'm so busy concentrating on the other ones! ), our travel one Gillian_and_Shauns_Adventures , my animal photography one Gillians_Animals and one for the family dog Suzie the.suzie .   So with following a whole range of different people over the four accounts I thought I’d make a list of some of my favourites! Theme Park Worldwide Instagram Twitter    Youtube    Theme Park Worldwide was created by theme park enthusiast Shawn Sanbrooke who started off just making videos as a hobby in his bedroom as a teenager.   Fast forward a few years and he now has a YouTube following of 170k, a Twitter following of 14.5k and an Instagram following of 32.7k.   Shawn goes all over the world visiting theme parks and filming vlogs about them.  He knows everything...

Enjoying the view in Portinatx As a child I wasn’t as lucky as my classmates who were going to Disneyland or Tenerife every summer.  My dad worked full time at a garage and my mum did part time cleaning jobs while raising the three of us so expensive holidays abroad weren’t really an option (not to mention my mum’s fear of flying!). I’m the baby of the family, the (surprise!) result of my mum’s second marriage so my two brothers pretty much had a life of their own by the time I started school.  I didn’t completely go without holidays though, we had a few caravan holidays around Scotland growing up which I loved, although it was always just the three of us.  A little me with my big brothers around 1993 So what changed it all?  One freezing cold, windy, rainy October week at Craig Tara (a holiday park) in Ayr!  It was just myself and mum that week and we stayed in a chalet, however there was a gap underneath the door which meant that the wind ju...