Travel

Entries about travel

Hayling Island by Caravan
Memory · Summer 1971
A childhood caravan holiday at Hayling Island, remembered through packing, beach routines and four people sharing a confined space.
Weymouth in a Wet Week
Memory · August 1972
Margaret recalls a damp family week in Weymouth, with boarding-house routines, wet shoes and competing versions of the weather.
The Chevette
Memory · 1983
Margaret and Alan buy a used red Chevette after George inspects it and offers the nearest thing he gives to approval.
Shanklin for Four Nights
Memory · 14 May 1984
Two days after their wedding, Margaret and Alan take the Chevette and ferry to Shanklin for a four-night honeymoon.
The New Forest Tent
Memory · August 1993
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.
Our First Flight
Memory · August 1994
The family takes its first overseas holiday, flying from Gatwick to Majorca for a week in a modest apartment.
Weymouth Again
Memory · August 1999
Margaret returns to Weymouth with Alan, Claire and Michael and tries unsuccessfully to identify the boarding house from her childhood holiday.