Mountain Buggy All Terrain

I don't think we spoke to each other for half an hour afterwards. Shell-shocked. That's the only way to describe the way we felt after our first foray into a baby shop (one where you buy products for babies not where you buy babies - although if I could find one of the later I'd happily sell mine at the moment!). I was about five months pregnant and since our parents had offered to buy some things for the baby in progress we thought it was time to embark on the accumulation stage of pregnancy. We ventured awkwardly into the world of baby consumerism and said "we're having a baby - what do we need". An awful lot it turns out! At least according to ...

I have just finished au pairing for a young and (well it has to be said) trendy couple in Vienna. Naturally they had to have an all terrain buggy with three wheels rather than your bog standard one like every one else. These three wheelers are becoming increasingly popular espescially in America because they are more rugged than a normal four wheeler (and can be used to jog at the crack of dawn and have some quality time with child). The buggy itself has a sturdy light weight, metal frame and three large tyres which cut through mud and stoney areas no problem (if I carry on much onger I am going to start sounding like some one on a shopping channel). These ...

We bought a Mountain Terrain (fixed wheel) push chair before our baby was born. We looked at the prams available at John Lewis, and were pushed to choose between fixed wheel prams (heavy, larger) and swivel wheel prams (lighter, harder to push), and didn't like either choice. A specialised baby shop showed us the Mountain Terrain. It was lighter, and easy to push. They warned us of its shortcomings: it doesn't fold up very small. It takes a lot of room. And they were right. This isn't a pram to take on the bus, or on an airplane. It's only really worthwhile if you walk long distances. We like to walk, and will often walk for an hour or ...