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I apologise in advance that this may not be the most exciting blog you’ll ever read. They’ll get better, I promise! The bad news is we didn’t find Mr Partridge on our visit to Norwich, just a ‘very fine city’ as the welcome to Norwich sign promises. If you’ll hang in there, what this is, is well, a fairly normal road trip to visit family but hopefully highlights the needs of families such as ours that don’t quite fit the ‘norm’. You could say this is our quest to find ‘normal’ perhaps? Or trying to make ‘our normal’ the norm?!  What do we expect as a family embarking on a road trip? Many hours spent sat in the car, a packet of sweets to work through, downloads of Peppa Pig and Postman Pat to entertain the kids in between the ‘I’m bored’ and ‘are we nearly there yet?’ cries. Stops for coffee, a bite to eat, stretch of the legs and using the toilet. All standard, all what you expect of a road trip with kids. What do you do however if on-route you get to the coffee shop and it’s