This blog previously appeared on City Adventurers. Having tried and loved the free online game – The Disappearance of DJ McDee – by Cluecracker, we bought their next online adventure – Escape from Extinction Island Escape from Extinction Island For this game, you are an apprentice palaeontologist based in Kent, working on a top secret project.… More Escape from Extinction Island
Murder 57 Ltd produced an online murder mystery adventure set in the 1920’s, called A Fashionable Way To Die. Synopsis: It is July 1921 and Florence Tremaine, widow and owner of Tremaine Fabrics, one of the top fabric manufacturers in Europe, is hosting a small party to thank her staff and customers. The event will… More A Fashionable Way To Die
We have our very own pop up escape room…….that will have to wait for a while! Designed to be launched at the Go Travel show in April, we had to put our plans on ice as the country went into lockdown. We hope to launch at the Go Travel Show in September 2020. For this… More Escape The Stately Home!
Valentine’s Mansion and Gardens Before lockdown City Adventurers were able to visit this gorgeous grade II* listed country house. Built in around 1696, it was the home of Elizabeth Tillotson and her family, after the death of her husband, the Archbishop of Canterbury. Originally it stood in open countryside, several miles from the edge of London. Now… More Valentines Mansion, Gardens and Online Mystery Game
An Online Escape Adventure without leaving the sofa Escape From Home offer online adventures to play on your computer. We tried out two of three free games currently available. Each page contains a puzzle to solve to take you to then next page. If you enter an answer that is incorrect, you can go back… More Escape From Home Online Adventures
In the summer we visited The National Trust’s Snowshill Manor and Garden in Gloucestershire. Everywhere you look there are treasures to be found. This is the former home of eclectic collector, architect Charles Wade. He bought the property in 1919 and filled it with hundreds of objects. Explore the house and discover a vast collection,… More Treasure Seeking at Snowshill Manor and Garden
The City Adventurers have experience of hunting down double agents, (Plan 52, Breaking The Law ) so we were excited to be asked to help MI6. Our assistance was needed to trace a double agent before they fled the country. This time our base of command would be an MI6 surveillance van, where we would have all… More City Adventurers try to save the country….again.
Our group played A New Year’s Revelation to welcome in the New Year A New Year’s Revelation Plot The action for this murder mystery takes place just after the First World War. There had been a gathering in 1918 to celebrate the end of the war and to mark the safe return of the Richman family.… More A New Year’s Revelation
It took longer than the City Adventurers were expecting to make our way to Hatfield. A lot of country roads through Essex were flooded and, after driving through numerous “new fords” that weren’t supposed to be there, we found a lot of roads ahead had been closed by the police. Undaunted we headed out to… More Who Saw Someone Killing Santa Claus?
One Friday evening we gathered at Chancery Lane Tube Station to join Vic Norman on one of his Dragon and Flagon London Pub Tours. Dragons mark the borders of the square mile of the City of London and give part of the name of this tour. The other half of the name – Flagon – is the… More Dragon and Flagon London Pub Tours