A childhood caravan holiday at Hayling Island, remembered through packing, beach routines and four people sharing a confined space.
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Margaret recalls a damp family week in Weymouth, with boarding-house routines, wet shoes and competing versions of the weather.
Margaret and Alan buy a used red Chevette after George inspects it and offers the nearest thing he gives to approval.
Two days after their wedding, Margaret and Alan take the Chevette and ferry to Shanklin for a four-night honeymoon.
A low-cost family camping holiday in the New Forest begins with a borrowed frame tent and competing ideas about how to put it up.
The family takes its first overseas holiday, flying from Gatwick to Majorca for a week in a modest apartment.
Margaret returns to Weymouth with Alan, Claire and Michael and tries unsuccessfully to identify the boarding house from her childhood holiday.