I love our family holidays – the gîte in Bigarogues-Lescaux, Dordogne and the big family-oriented camp site at Ca’ Savio across from the Venice lagoon being amongst my favourites (red wine on tap and the Adriatic Sea was my idea of heaven …. oh, and Venice was pretty too!). I’ve never forgotten carrying my two small boys into the sea, one on each arm, facing Mont Saint Michel when we stayed at the youth hostel at Genêts, Brittany.
But recently there is a pull to formative places – places linked to growing up - no doubt often romanticised and infused with a big dose of nostalgia. For me, that means Scotland.