The Family on the Platform
The most important part of your ecological holiday begins in your head. We all need to shift our perception of how a holiday happens, from the blink your eyes and you are in sunny Spain, to the attitude of ’getting there is half the fun’. This can be an obvious challenge when travelling with small children, but saving the environment means that slow travel is not just an option it is the only way, no more jetting off to ski holidays and you will be in France in a couple of hours. Remove all thoughts from your head of ’it will be so much easier is we just fly’. There are a plethora of alternative to short haul flights.
The place to start your research is definitely The Man is seat sixty-one. This is the go to website for all the best information on train travel in Europe and further afield. Fancy a trip to China? You will find all the information you need for the Trans-Siberian railway from visas, to where to purchase your tickets. You can also add to the adventure of a holiday travelling by ferry. There are the traditional cross channel ferries, but you can also travel to either Bilbao or Santander in Spain by ferry from Plymouth or Portsmouth. On Brittany Ferries, the trip is just 24 hours and there is even an option of on board whale and dolphin spotting to help entertain the family. As I said, the most important thing is to think differently about your holiday and convey this ethos to your children. The trip over can be spent planning, reading maps, making schedules, and looking at guidebooks. On the way home is the perfect time to make the family trip scrap book, pasting in tickets and writing down stories while the trip is still fresh in your head.
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