First Eleven Spring Issue

LIFESTYLE TRAVEL
Your guide to affordable holidays
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«cSooby Campers «hTe Evia School
«Elysian Holidays
www.scoobycampers.com www.theeviaschool.com
www.elysianholidays.co.uk
Five-star VW camper Offers classical trips
Elysian Holidays organises
vans for a family holiday in for mixed age families
a week on a catamaran
Scotland – weekly rental around central and eastern
swimming with dolphins
from £585. Mediterranean from April
in the Bahamas. Other
«Centre Parc s 2010. Also classical courses
destinations include Sri
www.centerparcs.co.uk for students on the island
Lanka, South Africa, Greek
Great locations, lots of of Evia from May 2010.
islands and Costa Rica.
activities and good value – From £800.
Prices start from £2,000
short breaks from £229 «aFmily Ski Company
per person per week.
«anL dmark Trust www.familyski.co.uk
«xpE lore
www.landmarktrust.org.uk Budget price ski trips at
www.explore.co.uk
Self-catering holidays in Portes du Soleil in the Alps.
Explore Berber villages
historic properties, castles, With child care, semi-self
in the High Atlas, relax on
water towers etc. catering and an evening
the coast at Essaouira and
«Cropton Cabins cook. From £349 per week
discover the ‘Red city’ of
www.forestholidays.co.uk per adult, £300 per child.
Marrakech with Explore
Like Center Parcs, with «Powderbyrn e
Family Adventure to
archery and horseriding www.powderbyrne.com
Morocco. Atlas Adventure
on site. Short breaks Well-priced beach holidays
(tour ref FMA) prices from
from £277. throughout Europe
£679 adults, £639 children.
«eFatherdown Farms including snorkelling and
«uSnsail
www.featherdown.co.uk scuba courses for the kids.
www.sunsail.co.uk/ﬁrst11
Quirky but nice tents From £1,100 per week.
Offers a one-off fabulous
located on a farm. Intrepid Travel
family holiday in Greece
Full week £795. www.intrepidtravel.com
departing May 2nd at Club
«aLdy G’s Cookery School Offers a 15-day family
Vounaki. Watersports
www.ladygscookeryschool. holiday from Hanoi to Ho
include sailing tuition and
com Residential courses Chi Minh City for £875 per
there is an activity beach
for one to 3–4 days or one head (exc ﬂights). Take a
club (4mths-17yrs). From
day. Parent-child courses cyclo tour through Hanoi,
£669 per head inc. ﬂights
run over 24 hours. From explore the Perfume River
and transfers (based on
£350 per couple sharing on a dragon boat, and relax
two sharing).
a room. on the beach at Nha Trang.
Tel: 0844 463 6549
A few fallen temples and wayside museums Over the next few days, Rupert continued were deforested, the metalled road vanished
later we arrived at the fort of Mycenae that to entertain us with history and legend as we a couple of miles from the border and was
gave its name to one of the great classical drove through olive groves, climbed steep peppered by concrete machine gun nests
periods of Greek civilisation. While we and winding roads to fortresses, temples and built on the orders of the old communist
admired vast stones fitted together without ruined cities. At Messalongi, where Byron tyrant Hoxha (now thankfully defunct). We
mortar as snugly as a jigsaw, Rupert regaled us died, we ate oranges on the beach while visited the ruins of Butrint before returning
with the tale of Clytemnestra, who murdered Rupert read from Childe Harold. Later, after to Greece, catching a ferry and spending one
her husband Agamemnon there. At the ruined crossing the Acheron (once believed to flow last night in Corfu. The teenagers by now
fort of nearby Tiryns, directly out of Hades) had bonded and after dinner, took off for a
we came across an
“We had the biggest
we sheltered from a bit of modern-day clubbing. We arrived back
English school party thunderstorm in the in England feeling as if we had been away
doing the same as us.
theatre of the
village of Parga. for weeks. It was an ideal A level half-term:
I felt very lucky as I For our last full education disguised as pleasure. %
watched one teacher
ancient world, which
day, we crossed the
struggling to get the
holds a 15,000
border into Albania. Liza’s travel, accommodation, meals, museum and
attention of thirty The change was site ticket costs were £800 per head, excl. flights.
chatting girls. audience, to ourselves” immediate, the hills Visit her blog on www.Lizaclizaclizac.blogspot.com
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