medina is Riad Zamzam – a traditional merchant’s townhouse that has been renovated by Emma Joyston-Bechal and her husband. The riad is super-chic and family-friendly with three suites and four doubles, all decked out in stunning Moroccan and European

for adventure holidays, from exploring the Great Wall of China to visiting a Thai hill tribe.Explore’s family programme includes China, Thailand and the 16-day Indonesian Volcanoes and Dragons Schooner Adventure, centred around nine nights aboard a traditional

The feeling is familiar: you’re sitting in the departure lounge waiting to board that long-haul flight, watching your fellow travellers milling about, hoping, praying, that the two small children screaming and climbing over the seats

Assumption, they say, is the mother of mess-up. Oh, and what a fool was I to assume that on a long-haul flight with a duration of 11 hours there would be back-of-the-seat in-flight entertainment to keep a five-year-old amused. Instead, there was one

the Black River Gorges National Park where white-tailed tropicbirds with long streamer tails glided like kites on warm thermals. We drank sugarcane juice (the sign said it helped with the growth of sexual organs, which greatly appealed to my sons’ schoolboy

of our passage through India that was about to begin…Day 1: DelhiOur day started with a handsome breakfast – a glorious buffet of pick ’n’ mix delights and made-to-order dishes. The charming waiter persuaded me to try a traditional Indian breakfast