Norman_Conquest
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Can you imagine being given this opportunity as a child and she's having a whinge about it stealing her childhood?
We went for day's out in the summer with our mum and dad over the moors and holidayed in a caravan on the Yorkshire Coast each year, never anywhere exotic but it was magical to us and the memories of Whitby, Scarborough, Filey and Bridlington live on. In my teens, we got adventurous and went to Heysham where my dad worked, Carmarthen Bay the following year and Great Yarmouth the next. That was my last family holiday with my parents, brother and three sisters.
I would have loved being taken out of school (I use to take myself out of school regularly and go up Eston Hills) and travel the world.
We went for day's out in the summer with our mum and dad over the moors and holidayed in a caravan on the Yorkshire Coast each year, never anywhere exotic but it was magical to us and the memories of Whitby, Scarborough, Filey and Bridlington live on. In my teens, we got adventurous and went to Heysham where my dad worked, Carmarthen Bay the following year and Great Yarmouth the next. That was my last family holiday with my parents, brother and three sisters.
I would have loved being taken out of school (I use to take myself out of school regularly and go up Eston Hills) and travel the world.
‘Dad said: We’re going to follow Captain Cook’: how an endless round-the-world voyage stole my childhood
In 1976, Suzanne Heywood’s father decided to take the family on a three-year sailing ‘adventure’ – and then just kept going. It was a journey into fear, isolation and danger …
www.theguardian.com
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