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Let’s take a family of four, the Joneses, from Llantwit Major, in the Vale of Glamorgan, with two young children who prefer to take their break in the school holidays.
They are a fairly typical middle-income Welsh couple with conventional holiday preferences. They’ll want somewhere within easy reach of the beach for their children, but without [...]

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 [...]

Both at home and abroad, prices rise sharply for family breaks starting on May 24 compared with those beginning a week earlier, despite a government demand for “voluntary narrowing” of such price differences four years ago.
Family groups and parents reacted angrily to the increases, accusing tour operators of taking advantage of those who cannot take [...]

Anger about the inconvenience caused by the earliest Easter for 95 years has led to calls for the dates to be fixed to reduce disruption to parents, gardeners and the tourist industry.According to a formula set in AD325, Easter Sunday is always the first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox. The [...]

In the extended family of government policies, childcare used to be the Victorian child - rarely seen, and certainly not heard about.Families of children where both parents, or a lone parent, wanted to work, had to engage in a lonely private struggle to find suitable care at the right hours and the right price from [...]

Remembering that I saw her at a party a few years back, I email the host, desperately fishing for info. No luck. Gina is, apparently, the most generous/kind/gentle human being on the planet. “She is also very private and has worked hard to protect her private/family life. As long as you respect that, you should [...]

An honour guard held ice axes aloft as his casket was carried through their lines at a state funeral attended by about 500 dignitaries from New Zealand and around the world, as well as the four surviving members of the 14 original Everest climbing team.Thousands had filed past the coffin in the previous 24 hours [...]