Over here in England it won't be long until the schools break up for the summer holidays. As a child, my parents always aimed to take me and my sister somewhere for the holidays for at least two out of the six weeks. It meant that we got to do something fun, spend time together as a family, and sometimes we got to see a bit of the world. We went to France, Spain, Greece and our best holiday was a trip around America for the whole of the six week summer holiday that included Disney Land. For a British kid growing up in the early nineties, a trip to Disney Land was like Christmas! My parents weren't exactly rolling in it and we grew up in an area where no one really had much money, so now that I'm older I really appreciate the efforts that our parents made for us. Oh and having an Irish mum meant that we spent many, many holidays in Ireland especially Cork.
What were your summer holidays like and did you visit any cool places?
I reckon I did most of the holiday type things that most British people do during the summer as a kid: Caravan in Clacton, trips to Brighton or Bournemouth, Butlins, holidays to Devon and Cornwall. But it was our first visit to Spain when I was a child that got me hooked on travel. Even though I was very young I could see that the lifestyle and culture was very different to anything I'd ever known and I have to say, I've definitely been bitten by the travel bug and never miss the opportunity to travel to strange and foreign climes! And now that I live in America, I'm having a great time travelling around the country which is almost like visiting a series of different countries because a lot of the states are so very different!