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Children have a right to leisure.
Ten weeks of cheaper tickets is not a long term solution.
Customers may opt for long-haul train travel to avoid busy and stressful airport and flight experiences.
Heatwaves, wildfires, floods and airport disruption can quickly turn a holiday into a financial loss.
Just as adults need annual leave to reset, children also need extended downtime.
When you’re doing your best to work from home with the kids around, it’s pretty difficult to monitor what they are doing on the tablet or TV.
More than 100 years ago, a master pearl diver in Broome set up what is now the world’s oldest still-running open-air cinema.
Sure, the ancients went on holidays for a rest and to cure illnesses. But they didn’t always come back healthy.
Climate and weather play a large role in people’s leisure travel decisions.
Summer in Australia is often set to the soundtrack of a Test cricket match. That sentimentality can get in the way of seeing cricket for what it is: a hyper-commercial cash machine.
It’s that time of year when it seems the more school fees parents pay, the less time their children spend in school.
Long journeys by car, boat, bus, train or plane can turn going away into a miserable ordeal.
Pretty much every kitchen can double as a chemistry set.
Don’t expect meditation to provide Christmas miracles. But if you start learning how to meditate now, your holidays may be a bit less stressful and perhaps a little more meaningful.
Cues from people and events around us plus memories of past holidays shape our sense of time over summer. No wonder one day blends into the next.
A focus on ‘catching up’ implies a deficit on the part of pupils.
Memories of past holidays shape this one and ones years in the future.
Our work is often so closely tied to our sense of who we are, many of us struggle to switch off on holidays. But it’s never too late to hide the laptop.
New Zealanders will have be prepared to change holiday plans if there is an new community outbreak.
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