JOURNEY INTO SPACE

Duration

12 nights

When

July 2021

Why?

Great walking and cycling, stunning countryside and expansive shores

Harrison’s excited cry: “Look Daddy, I can see a rainbow!” came as he peered out of a window covered in droplets of water from the latest sudden downpour. I can’t say I shared his excitement at that moment. After all, this was our summer holiday road trip and I had hoped, perhaps rather foolishly given the unreliability of British weather in July, for a few weeks without rain.

As it was, we were doing the typically British thing – making the best of it, while cursing the weather gods and longing to be elsewhere.

There was a period earlier this year when we had genuinely hoped to get across to the Continent, although that hope was as fleeting as what seems to pass for summer on our shores. Not that a lack of sunshine was going to stop us from making the most of our