Where? St Ives.Why go there? St Ives is a pretty town overlooking soft white sand beaches. It has also just been voted the Best UK Seaside Town at the British Travel Awards.Children will love... Simply rock-pooling and building sandcastles

for fearless Joe, though I was getting a little tired of looking like a drowned rat as another bucket a water toppled on my head. And we must have floated round in the giant rubber rings for hours, traveling through rapids, torrents and dodging waterfalls