If you’re waiting until September to take your summer holiday, you’re in good company. By then, the air and sea temperatures will be wonderfully warm, pleasant into the evening, but you won’t have the school-holiday madness of July and August to contend with.
If the idea of dipping your feet in the sand, on a beach lapped by Indian Ocean waves, choose Mauritius; given it's in the southern hemisphere, winter is coming to an end in September and the country is beginning to warm up. Rather stay in the UK? Chase down the end of summer either lakeside or wrapped in rolling hills in the Lake District or Shropshire. For getaways that are also get-togethers with friends and family, there's a villa holiday in Tuscany likely to tempt, or for something more romantic, think Croatia or Corsica.
