, and two nights on the Elephant Hills Jungle Safari, including all flights and transfers, from £1,694 per person, based on two people sharing. To book, quote ref FE9049. Tel: 01306 747008 or visit www.kuoni.co.uk

in which we live, it’s moments like these that are the ones to cherish. It’s also these times that I think my children will remember and share with their own children in years to come. As a child, my parents never took me camping. They favoured hotels, so I

. Thankfully, we didn’t need to do the washing up because our bill came to just £17.It’s a bumpy three-hour drive to the Kinabangatan River, where we paid extra to explore by private boat. This was no more decadent than the standard shared river safaris

a helicopter to Castaway Island for three nights in a family beach bure, from £1,164 per person for a family of four, excluding international flights. To the north of Fiji, the island of Samoa has gorgeous beaches, dramatic mountains, waterfalls

at Atlantis, The Palm in a deluxe room with B&B costs from £1,261 per adult and £326 for a child sharing the adults’ room. This includes flights from Heathrow, Gatwick, Birmingham, Manchester and Glasgow and transfers. Tel: 0845 277 3310; www

as educational. 15The Jolly Postmanby Janet and Allan Ahlberg Puffin, £12.99 (first published 1986)By Allan Ahlberg’s own admission, he and his late wife always liked to make a book very different from the one before. In The Jolly Postman, our