Recently we took a trip to Twycross zoo, in Leicestershire. We'd never been to Twycross before, but it's a zoo that I had heard about a lot as a child, it was often mentioned on the likes of Newsround and Blue Peter back in the eighties, so it's a zoo with a lot of history behind it, and one that I've always wanted to visit.

Our visit was in mid-march, before the completion of the new 'Himalaya' visitors centre, and before the completion of the Elephant Walkway. Despite all the construction going on around us, we had a very enjoyable day, and there was still lots of animals to see and enjoy. The weather was quite cold and windy, so the all the bigger apes just wanted to lie around inside and sleep, which was a bit of a shame. But we did get to see a lot of the smaller monkeys and gibbons, along with assorted other animals.

I took at lot of photos while there, along with quite a bit of video footage, feel free to check out my Twycross Zoo set on flickr, and my video on youtube.