The Up Side

Practicalities Types of Holiday Independent The Up Side 

There are bonuses which repay the hard work:

• A baby or a toddler is a great way of breaking the ice and travelling with one will mean you meet people who would never otherwise have talked to you.



• With slightly older children they can help you see things afresh together.



• Getting organised and to and from whatever you want to see or do builds up common experience to remember together.



• Any kind of holiday is an opportunity to spend time talking to and listening to your children (quality time in the jargon) but this is even more the case if you are travelling independently.



• Independent travel is a great opportunity to do things together rather than simply issuing instructions about how things are going to be done. Map reading and guidebook interpreting are just two of the ways this can happen.



• Independent travel is a better way of getting to see how a place works in its own right, rather than to keep tourists happy. Independent travel with children will give you a great entree to the real life of a place and aspects of it which you would never otherwise see.