Holiday

Holidays. Aren't they great? A time to unwind, relax, experience something new, to explore and to re-charge the batteries. Yet some parts of a holiday can be incredibly stressful: having to sort out travel, the airport, parking, connections, packing, currency, insurance not to mention organizing your family. How can you reduce the stress of these parts of your holiday so it goes as swimmingly as you want? Slow Travel is a state of mind and does not necessarily mean taking longer breaks, it is about how you approach the time you have. By applying the ethos of Slow Travel and taking a few simple, sensible steps, you can reduce the stress and hassle and have the holiday you truly deserve.

For many people, self catering cottages in Wales are the ultimate place to spend the holidays with family these days. Wales is a beautiful place with a large quantity of breathtaking scenery from coast to coast, and with opportunities available that will appeal to people of all ages. Holiday cottages, apartments, or bed and breakfasts in Wales make the perfect base from where you can plan an endless variety of activities, including walking, pony trekking, cycling, bird watching or water sports.

A lot of visitors choose holidays in Crete to crash in one of resorts along the island's north coast, but the best holidays in Crete involve exploring the remnants of the great Minoan, Roman, Venetian and Turkish cultures that existed here as well as the great beaches. This suggested itinerary for holidays in Crete visits all the major sights and sites from Chania travelling west to Agios Nikolaos, and spares more time for exploring the ancient side of the island than reclining on the beach.

The volcano Eyjafjallajokull in Iceland has been doing its worst and spewing volcanic ash into the atmosphere, creating a cloud which has grounded holiday flights out of Great Britain. If you're thinking about taking a holiday this year, why go through the hassle of going overseas and risk getting stranded in a foreign destination, when you could take a holiday in the UK, with the knowledge that you can get home again at the end of your holiday.

When they go on holiday a large percentage of people will be looking to take time off away from the stresses of work and life back at home, and treat their partner or whole family to a welcome break away for a week or two. Some families may not mind where they go to as long as the resort is family-friendly, has a swimming pool for the kids and plenty of space on the beach to lounge on. Indeed, those few ingredients can make the perfect holiday for many people.

Sun, sea, sand and sex... so many couples go on holiday with such high expectations, that many of them are bound to be disappointed with their holiday sex lives. And it's not just couples for whom sex is a holiday issue, what about the holiday romance situation when you are travelling with friends and sharing a room? Who brings who back to where? This article is the last of a series of four of Top Tips for Loving Your Travelling Companions and looks at why sex can be such a problem on holiday and what you can do to improve your holiday sex life.