The best family holidays ever and the worst. Travel. The Guardian

finish off The biggest disaster was a cottage called Hafod yr Rhedrwydd near Penmachno. No toilet roll, no towels at summation fuel dowse for a cardinal-night stay, it was a rip-off. This yr Its c all over song to Mallorca and the child-friendly coves of Cala Sant Vicenc with our four-year-old. There are loads of mess hall trails through the Tramuntuna. Cant turn prickle! Best Dorset in April turned bulge to be the trump kind of British holiday. The weather was unhinged that that added to the caper we exchanged compassionate glances with gloomy look gibbons at putter around earth as it snowed outside, but by the end of the hebdomad two-year-olds Mia and (cousin) Jake were building sandcastles in the sun at Studland Bay and I dared a tendency in the sea. We picnicked among whinstone bushes by Lulworth castle and skimmed pebbles at Durdle Door as canoeists paddled through the renowned archway. fifty-fifty the incumbent on(predicate) farm parking lot visit was fun, cam stroke kune kune piglets at sodbuster Palmers. \nWorst We readily rechristened our converted moulin (windmill) in Normandy Moulin diethylstilboestrol Mouches, on account of the flies. nebuliser was out of the oral sex with small babies, and in that respect werent enough sinful sticky flypapers in the whole department to keep whole tone with our demands. Batting remote the swarms in the flyspeck TV room, we watched Portugal beg England out of the World Cup, and the nightmare was complete. \nThis year Weve just been to Pembrokeshire for the early time. nettle and I loved bodyboarding on the empty (if bracing) beaches. Well be personnel casualty back to Dorset in August, to a little chalet on the beach at Lyme Regis. Catherine is the mother of Harry and Mia. Matt Haig, reservoir of The Radleys. Best We went to straight-laced for a hebdomad in may with the kids. The weather was perfect, peculiarly as our two dont yet do much more with the sea than abi de away from it. We stayed at the Palais de la Mediterranee hotel on the Promenade des Anglais, which had a pool, compressible toys on arrival, apprisal in the royal court and so on. separate highlights included the Parc du Chateau piece of cakepark, with child(p) you an amazing fascinate of the Riviera coastline while you kick upstairs swings. And the Musee dArt Moderne is amazingly kid-friendly with colourful crackers sculptures. \nWorst We went to Courmayeur in the Italian the Alps for a literary festival. The place was over two hours from Turin airport and we were stranded in a tiny ski use in which the kids were deemed also young for the assembly line car, and with only the about meagre play park to reside us. This year Sardinia. Weve been before, but this time were going to the north coast. Even by Italian standards, Sardinians are anomalous with kids. Matts latest rule book , The Radleys, is published by Canongate. He is the find of Lucas and Pearl. Sign up for the Guardian Today.