One rainy weekend in early spring, we visited Aerospace Bristol. A massive warehouse full of interactive aviation exhibits, large enough to let the kids run wild. After a break for coffee and hot chocolates and a short run across the disused runway, we arrived at the ‘main event’, the building…

Highlights from our quick getaway over the half term: Stay at an Airbnb in the suburbs overlooking a Parisian park — the kids enjoyed watching the French children crossing the park to go to school in the morning — smug in the knowledge that they had a day of leisure…