Category: Travels with children

  • Pas-de-Calais: a cheat’s holiday

    Pas-de-Calais: a cheat’s holiday

    For my birthday in October Steve booked us a week’s holiday in a cottage in a rural French village called Tortefontaine, just over an hour’s drive from the ferry terminal at Calais. Until then, the very name Calais conjured up for me memories of a miserable booze cruise, drizzle, catching…

  • Herefordshire with a babe in arms

    Herefordshire with a babe in arms

    Me, my husband and our baby on a self-catering week in Aylton, near Ledbury. It wasn’t the most ambitious of holidays. One of the leaflets in our rented cottage was for the Birmingham Botanical Gardens … less than five miles from our house. Steve and I joked about popping home…