Travel Life
The great outdoors
There are some amazing holiday activities you can do with your children, but there are some fantastic ones they can do solo...
Tania Rotherwick took her children, Gus, 10, and Clemmie, 5, hiking in the Swiss Alps
made worse by the knowledge that all one’s friends are all basking in the sun. Luck- ily for us, the weather held, the skies were blue and the views that greeted us each morning were breathtakingly beautiful. The downside to this was that it fuelled my determination to hike long, hard and high, not always to the delight of my children. As a conces- sion to them, I spent many hours working out routes that involved cable cars up, hiking down, or transverse routes with good mountain restaurants along the way. Happily there were plenty avail- able and day one was
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s it turned out, the holiday was a joy from start to finish, though not without some crisis moments along the way. As I know only too well, the biggest concern of summer holidays in the Alps is the weather – when good, the world could not appear more perfect; when bad, it feels like mid-winter in the height of summer,
Tania with her son, Gus, and inset, daughter, Clemmie
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