When holidaying as a single parent with two children aged nine and 13, the word ‘relaxing’ might not be the first word that comes to mind. ‘Fun’, might be on the list. ‘An adventure’, perhaps. ‘Brave’ – definitely.
And while I was, I admit, pretty self-congratulatory about the last one, I had no illusions about the first. I expected to have a hilarious, fulfilling, bonding, silly time away with my kids on my first ever holiday abroad as a single parent, but I did not expect to come home flaunting the fact that it was “relaxing” to anyone.
