Tourist destinations (and other interesting places) where you have breastfed?

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The thread about breastfeeding in the Vatican made me think about breastfeeding in other tourist destinations. Where have you breastfed and were you made to feel welcome?

In the last year I have breastfed:

in the Harry Potter Studio tour - a kind staff member helped me find a quiet (er) spot on a bench behind Dumbledore's office.

in the Tudor kitchens at Hampton Court - very uncomfortable as there was nowhere to sit so I found a spot on some cold flagstones.

A few years ago I breastfed ds2 in the British Museum special exhibition room - I didn't feel comfortable at all and staff tried to make me leave and go to the 'breastfeeding room' (aka toilet) - no way after I had queued for ages and paid to get in.

I bf in church all the time. Dd is 16 weeks and I feed when she needs too.

Sat in the shoe section of tk Maxx, on a bench in the Trafford centre...

Nowhere too out there but interested to see other replies!!

In a McDonalds in Dubai - bit worrying as was worried I was going to get carted out for having my norks out! Was well shrouded with scarves, muslins though.

Oooh can't wait to see others replies!

I've fed on a plane sandwiched between a very nice more mature lady & a bloke who looked like he was straight from TOWIE - neither of them batted an eyelid or passed content except to say he was cute despite ds repeatedly giving them both a kick while he was feeding
I've also fed on the beach but other than that nowhere particularly exciting.

In a bird hide thing at a nature reserve on a wobbly bench.

Standing up while watching the parade at Disneyland Paris. Luckily DS was only a few months old so my arms didn't get too tired. :) Also on every bench round the park outside all the rides.

At the train station in Wales with the very long name, in the ruins of a castle, at the zoo in front of various animals :)

The Olympic Stadium in London, during the Games, no one batted an eyelid.

Possibly on the London Eye as well, but can't remember!

At the maritime museum in Falmouth, on a bus, in various fields with the caravan, at slimming world every week, in church most weeks-try to get finished before communion so can go up for it though!

On a glacier, aeroplanes, airports, mountains.
Also fed in the middle of a medieval re-enactment in France. DS was two at the time and a French woman asked me if he was feeding, she seemed quite enthralled!

Buckingham Palace. Got to go through a secret door from the state rooms and down a very ordinary corridor and lift to the medical room, where I sat and fed DS in a nice comfy chair looking out over the gardens.

The World of Beatrix Potter. The feed lasted longer than it took to walk round the crap displays.

On forest paths in various countries. In the great hall of Stirling castle.

I fed 6 month old ds1 on flights to and from New Zealand, on a cable car in Christchurch NZ and on the trans alpine express. He was a great traveller and slept through all the great scenery! I have been known to feed ds2 and 3 (twins) on a beach or too, now that sometimes raises a few eyebrows!

I'm going to the Harry Potter place this week and was thinking where could I feed my son so nice to hear that you fed your there :-)

My places aren't that interesting Marks and Spencer, restaurants, a Christening, on a bench pretty much anywhere I am I will feed. :-)

In the queue for Father Christmas at Peppa Pig World

Just came back to the thread and it is great to read some of the exotic places people have fed in! If only we'd all taken photos it would make an amazing album!

My mind is boggling at breastfeeding on a glacier and the secret corridor in Buckingham Palace sounds intriguing...

The crypt of the Guildhall in London (during Open House weekend)... the viewing platform of the Orbit in the Olympic Park... On a bench outside the Tate Britain... Several times at the Tate Modern... The David Bowie exhibition at V&A... In the middle of the Propaganda exhibition at the British Library...

I've never been 'made to feel' uncomfortable. Probably the only time I really felt self-conscious was when I had to stop and feed DD standing up in a corner of that scrubby park in the middle of Soho Square at lunchtime in the summer. The place was packed with lunching workers and tourists and DD was going through her 'screaming on boob' phase.

On the moving walkway under the shark tunnel at Deep Sea World

In many of the benches of the kelvingrove museum (Glasgow)

Not exotic but at my dd1's school Halloween disco, dd2 feeding and holding her in one arm, the other arm in a big bowl of value macaroni helping p1s dig out plastic eyeballs etc!

On the benches not in them! And also in the IMAX at the science centre!

In a graveyard.

In the back of a mini convertible on a private airfield

And I met a lady feeding her baby at an ice rink.

Dd was fed everywhere an anywhere. Trains, planes, boats, back seat of the car, Olympic stadium, canterbury cathedral, and endless park benches... but the most unusual ones are probably

The temples of Karnak (hiding behind a column covered in hieroglyphics)

The terrace overlooking beautiful views at the hotel nacional in Havana (whilst drinking a mojito)

I forgot in the national museum of Scotland just near the ancient Egypt exhibition. There are folding chairs hanging on the walls as the place is so big, handy!

On a train, on a plane, on a beach, in a Micheline starred restaurant, in ordinary restaurants, on a minature railway, in the V&A, at Hampton Court flower show, on a cliff path while walking, in the Science Museum, on the tube, in the Natural History museum, at Kew Gardens, on a swing, in my dd's nursery, in the National Portrait Gallery, The National Gallery... while getting my hair cut... there is nowhere I have been with a baby where I haven't fed.

I don't care what anyone else thinks. If they don't like it they don't have to look or they can cover up their own head if they want.

oooh, crypt, sharks and graveyard - getting spooky!

Great to read all replies.

happydutchmummy I am at Karnak and Havana. Dumbledore's office seems rather dull now...

jaggy I love the national museum of Scotland.

All sorts of places parks, churches, cathedrals, museums, stately homes but I think the most way out was underground in Wookey Hole caves.