Four for the Road: How to survive holidaying with teenagers

Does a family who travel together, stay together?

One mother finds out...

2 teenagers, 1,600 kilometres, 7 days and

a Mercedes Benz... what could go wrong?

We are a family of travellers; I have always thought I had the wanderlust gene and hoped that I had passed it in to my children.

I love travelling; it is all I have ever wanted to do.

I dream about it, I plan it, I spend my savings on it.

This obsession is greeted by my family with varying degrees of interest.

So my announcement of the news–we were driving around England and Scotland in a few months’ time–was met with

slightly less enthusiasm than I'd hoped.

“You’ll see,” I said. “It will be an adventure”.

Can a road trip be fun and memorable?

 “You cannot discover anything in life without first getting lost.”