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‘It’s the low-key moments that stay with us’: the secret to happy summer holidays with the kids

Affordable family fun; wedding gift ideas couples will actually want; and the best gins, tested

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On a walk with my children, now in their mid-20s, I asked them what they remembered best from their school summer holidays. I expected to hear about the fiesta we witnessed in the heat of Tarifa, Spain, or be berated for the time I booked early flights to Crete, leaving us sitting in the waiting room of a resort from 4am until check-in time.

I was greatly amused (and slightly relieved), then, to hear my son say: “Our summer books – that time we collected all those random things, took them home and stuck them into a book.” He was delighted that we’ve kept them.

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‘It’s the low-key moments that stay with us’: the secret to happy summer holidays with the kids

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