Family

Want a last-minute staycation? Try a youth hostel in the Peak District, known as the English Alps

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Here’s a useful little secret for you: Britain’s youth hostels are open for business. They’re cheap, located in beautiful areas and have taken Covid precautions. And best of all, they have vacancies. I stumbled across this information two weeks back. After foreign holidays hit the wall and every B&B in Britain sold out a few … Read more

Not everyone starts school from the same line – according to the assessment, the distance is affected by, for example, the learning difficulties of the close family, the backgrounds of the guardians and

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© Magazine image According to the evaluation, the educational background of the parents and the learning difficulties in the immediate family, among other things, affect the competence levels of children starting school. NEWSPAPER / VESA MOILANEN Home and language background has a significant effect on the competence levels of children starting school, according to a … Read more

The Catalan firework festival that will make your Barcelona camping holiday go with a bang

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There can be few better holiday moments than the sight of one’s children screaming in terror as explosions light the air all around, followed by an evacuation sequence that brings to mind Saving Private Ryan. It had started tamely enough. While spending a week at the Vilanova Park campsite, about 30 miles south of Barcelona, … Read more

A review of the Mamilla Hotel in Jerusalem just a short walk from the most revered sites on earth 

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Holiness is perhaps an under-rated quality in a hotel. What with the worldly trappings of room service, valet parking and chocolates on pillows – not to mention the Satanic temptation of mini-bars – they are normally unabashed temples of fleshly delights. The Mamilla Hotel in Jerusalem, however, is different. Don’t get me wrong: as a … Read more