A survivor’s guide to family holidays

First rule of a family holiday: leave your husband at home.

The columnist Rachel Johnson is off on a family holiday to Greece with her children, but minus her husband. People wonder why, she says in the Mail on Sunday, but there's a very good reason.

"I happen to think that many men are best avoided on holiday, and that the English male on a beach holiday is a particularly tragic sight. Whereas all the women I know love tanning, chatting and reading by the pool, floating about markets, fondling peaches, sniffing melons, my husband like many men does not understand the idiom, the grammar of doing nothing and wearing very little, simply for the sake of it."

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