There are some truly beautiful places in this world. There are also some truly awful ones too as we see constantly in news reports, but for the purposes of this holiday chat, we are interested in just the beautiful ones. On a recent family cruise, we had the joy of seeing the fjords in bright […]

After spending much of our younger married holidays as half hearted campers, we became the proud, if somewhat anxious owners of an old Abbey Cambridge caravan. It seemed enormous for the car we had to tow with. The man about our house was a great petrol head and nothing would put him off a project […]

When a family went on holiday in the 1950s or 1960s, there was far less choice of venue and entertainment than we have available today. Our family holidays for example, were spent down by the seaside, staying in a former railway carriage that had been converted into a holiday rental. We would climb up over […]

There cannot be a more likely time to be suddenly wanting a holiday than when trying to organise a festive family gathering.  The thought of all that food and drink to be obtained and paid for is alarming these days with the sheer cost of everything going up.  Meat and poultry has  been a major […]