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Trying to persuade older children to join a family trip? Joanna Symons suggests 10 breaks that teenagers won’t sneer at.
Parents are not ideal travelling companions as far as older teenagers are concerned, but if you want to keep family holidays going there are certain options that will still pull them in.
Remote cottages or serious culture [...]

Broadcaster Dermot Murnaghan explains why Dingle Bay, on the west coast of Ireland, makes for perfect family holidays.
I love the west of Ireland, and Co Kerry in particular, which my family and I have been visiting every summer now for a few years and all think is absolutely idyllic.
What makes it so special? For a [...]

Jonathan is deeply relieved when Annabel suggests they forgo their customary family holiday in Italy for a week’s camping in Wales. With two sets of school fees for them to worry about, fancy foreign holidays are increasingly looking like a thing of the past. And besides, he has fond memories of childhood camping in Scotland: [...]

PARENTS and students at Redstart Primary School in Chard have been making the most of nature with Family Learning Outdoor Experience lessons.
The sessions have been organised through Somerset Adult Learning and Leisure, with funding from Family Learning.
The six-week course provides parents, carers and children with a range of skills and activities based on outdoor experiences.
Everyone [...]

Walking holidays with the family often mean that parents are constantly pestered with questions of “Are we nearly there yet?” – by frowning children who find hiking anything but cool. Not so in Carinthia. Here we make sure that walking is fun for the whole family.
The W?rthersee, Carinthia’s most famous swimming lake, holds another attraction [...]

Place In The Sun Ds Willie Quit For Spain And Found Himself On The Case As A Consultant For Other Scots
Retired policeman Willie Murphy copped himself a new career when he bought a holiday home in Spain.
The former detective sergeant ploughed his retirement cash into a place in the sun when he left the force [...]

Take time to research the best time to holiday at your chosen Thai destination because the climate can differ from region to region and there are monsoons to avoid. We holidayed in the sun in Bangkok and Koh Samui during the September school holidays.
It is cheaper to book local excursions - in our case the [...]

IF change is as good as a holiday then why do my family holidays invariably end up in the same place? If we go overseas, we go to New York. If we go to the beach, we go to Rosedale on the NSW south coast. If we go camping, we go to Treachery on the [...]

We have finally broken free from the corsets of Victorian parenting.  According to a new survey we now put our kids first on holidays – no more ‘seen and not heard’!  In possibly the largest survey of its type, over 7000 UK mothers bared their soul on travelling as a family, letting children have cake [...]

Spain and its archipelagos of the Canary Islands and the Balearics are among the best destinations in Europe for accommodation for cheap family holidays, according to research.
TripAdvisor, the world’s largest travel community, polled 2,400 of its members about cheap family holidays and the results suggested that eight out of the top ten accommodation options are [...]