LIFESTYLE TRAVEL
A ff o r d a b l e
holidays
with your child
Whether it is touring in a VW camper van,
cooking up a storm in Yorkshire or exploring
the ruins of classical Greece, there are plenty
of aff ordable holidays which appeal to
parent and child alike. Liza Campbell
bonds with her seventeen-year-old son
on the Acropolis
T
rying to decide what to do with my us plenty of classical bang for our bucks.
son over half-term, I was all too Rupert Smith, a former classics master
aware of the confl icting needs and at the Winchester girls’ school St Swithun’s
desires of travelling with a teenager who is fl uent in both Greek and Albanian,
in his A level year. Atticus needed to keep has set up a holiday school. We and two
abreast of work, but we hadn’t been away other friends and their teens
for a very long while and the kitchen was joined him on the inaugural
undergoing repairs. As a fi rm believer in the trip that, from Easter 2010,
mind-expanding potential of travel way will run during half-terms
beyond anything curricula can offer, I and holidays from a hotel
wanted to take him on a trip. However, I on the island of Evia,
had to keep in mind that he’s seventeen and northeast of Athens.
Top: Liza Campbell with
although he’s easy going, his idea of fun may We started our trip
her seventeen-year-old
son Atticus.
not be a “deux” with his mum for an entire in an eccentric bed and
Above: the party at the
Epidavros amphitheatre.
week. Added to these considerations was the breakfast in Athens run Left: at the Acropolis.
fact I didn’t have a lot of money to play with. by an old English hippy
If your child is a classical civilisations (all the hotels we stayed in were
student like mine, studying Latin or Greek basic, but clean and friendly, if not staggering
– or even if you just think it’s worthwhile beautiful). We breakfasted on the roof on ate, was the Acropolis, lit gold in the morning
adding classical boiled eggs, honey light. Soon we were up there and under
history to your child’s
general knowledge –
“I have the perfect
and croissants served Rupert’s expert guidance the teenagers were
up in a wicker basket pleasingly thrilled by their fi rst visit to the
then I have the perfect
solution to a half-
which, much to his great masterpiece – and especially by the
solution to a half-term enjoyment, Attticus knowledge that the yawning gap in the
break; a guided trip
term break: a guided
had hauled up from Parthenon’s south facing pillars was thanks to
to the ancient sites
trip to the ancient
outside the kitchen the Ottoman Turks use of the great temple as
of Greece. It was not window. Looming an arsenal which detonated under Venetian
only cheap, but gave sites of Greece” behind us as we bombardment. Rupert kept everything
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