If Christmas really is all about the children, then there can’t be any quibbles about this year’s iteration of The Lanterns at Chester Zoo. Our two young daughters, aged four and six, declared on the way home that they “really,...
Read MoreThere are many things to be spied at Chester Zoo. Some are majestic – a lioness roaring, or a male orangutan lumbering around his enclosure – and others are merely predictable. Into the latter camp goes the sight of...
Read MoreIt should be an odd proposition. Go all the way to what is probably the nation’s best zoo, but don’t see any real animals. Instead, visitors to The Lanterns wander the paths and bridges of Chester Zoo in the dark, cooing not at...
Read MoreMuch like a visit to the Museum of Science and Industry or a trip to the Palace Theatre panto, a school outing to Chester Zoo was a rite of passage for North West children born in the 1970s. I vividly remember a Junior School...
Read MoreThe animals at the zoo have been put under a sleeping enchantment, and only you can help break the spell. Wild Rumpus, the team behind the award-winning Just So Festival, have brought their Enchantment back to Chester Zoo....
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