Anne Dickins MBE is a Team GB paracanoeist and Olympic gold medallist. She has two teenage kids and as a family their favourite holidays are Neilson sailing holidays. I went to meet Anne to find out why these holidays work so well for them. This is what she told me: I’d not considered this kind of […]
Family hotel on Turkey’s Mediterranean coast
I watch my youngest count the four orange lifebelts he can see and then the passengers on our boat. He then whispers to me dramatically: ‘It’s going to be a fight to the death.’ I show him the wooden bench full of lifebelts and he relaxes and starts chatting about football shirts, his perennial concern […]
Turkish chocolate pudding
The youngest loves cooking and wants to make Turkish Chocolate Pot this weekend – I’m in. I adore chocolate. I especially need some as a van crashed in to my car today and I’m feeling a bit pathetic. (I reckon J.K. Rowling was spot on when she gave Harry Potter chocolate after he encountered […]
The best flight ever
We went to the Dionysos estate in Turkey with Exclusive Escapes for the October half term holiday. I’m writing about the trip in print, but wanted to write here about how we got there because it was my best experience of air travel since my first plane journey 25 years ago. When I heard that […]