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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

By Andrew Hough
LONDON (Reuters Life!) - The teenage daughter of a leading arctic explorer on Thursday begins her bid to become the youngest British woman to ski to the North Pole.
Camilla Hempleman-Adams, 15, is accompanying her explorer father David Hempleman-Adams, 51, on the dangerous 80-mile (129km) Arctic trip to raise climate [...]

He will have to face his parents too: he was hoping the mess could be cleared up by the time they returned home from their break in Queensland, in northern Australia, but huge media coverage has ruled out that idea.On her way home last night after cutting her holiday short, his mother, Jo, told the [...]