.You see, we’re searching for the most extraordinary food on earth, which is lovely for food-obsessed parents, but a bit challenging for their children. The dish that’s in front of us is phenomenal – aromatic, flowery, delicately constructed, complex yet

of the plane journey is sheer bliss. Barbados is a good place to start if you’re exploring the Caribbean for the first time or taking your first long-haul family holiday. It’s straightforward to get to; it’s highly developed, with some of the best family hotels

with Moroccan food and views of the High Atlas Mountains. We prowled the alleys of the souk, shopping for Moroccan home accessories, haggling happily for hours, drinking beers in a sunny café overlooking the Djemaa el Fna square as the call for early evening

. On the negative side, parents probably won’t want to eat the food. But we were buying into a little American heritage, I told myself, and the children had a ball. There’s something about dolphins that makes them appealing; maybe it’s those stories about them

to cater for the ages of the children and I opted to have four one-hour sessions during our-ten day stay, which proved just enough to hold everyone’s interest. I’d already engaged Freddie’s imagination by teaching him the Warrior pose and he was itching