School Holiday Ideas
April 5th 2011 16:47
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Circus skills, falconry, cycling and big-game spotting
Easter
Encourage your teenagers to run away to the circus. Guests aged 13-plus at Port Bourgenay Resort near La Rochelle in France, can learn to master the flying trapeze (two-hour lesson Â80). There are organised sports and a farm for younger children too. A two-bedroom self-catering apartment (sleeping up to six) is Â473 (about £410).
pierreetvacances.co.uk.
May half-term
Learn falconry in Wiltshire on a half-day birds of prey course. It takes place in the grounds of Chiseldon House Hotel in Swindon, where you can get up close to owls and take a hawk walk, during which a kestrel will follow you through the trees. A family of four sharing pay £450 for one nightÂs B&B, gourmet dinner and falconry.
chiseldonhousehotel.co.uk.
Summer
Take a family cycling holiday in Holland. Staying on a hotel barge which sails from Amsterdam, in one week you will pedal on flat paths past windmills, visit a cheese farm in Gouda and play clog golf. The cost includes full board, bicycle hire and guide with Utracks.
utracks.com.
October
Become a game ranger for a day on a family safari in Zambia. YouÂll spot elephants, lions and hippos and you can , track animals on foot in the South Luangwa National Park. One weekÂs full board and activities, staying in a luxury lodge, costs from £3,300 per adult and £2,715 per child, including flights.
zambezi.com.
Easter
Encourage your teenagers to run away to the circus. Guests aged 13-plus at Port Bourgenay Resort near La Rochelle in France, can learn to master the flying trapeze (two-hour lesson Â80). There are organised sports and a farm for younger children too. A two-bedroom self-catering apartment (sleeping up to six) is Â473 (about £410).
pierreetvacances.co.uk.
May half-term
Learn falconry in Wiltshire on a half-day birds of prey course. It takes place in the grounds of Chiseldon House Hotel in Swindon, where you can get up close to owls and take a hawk walk, during which a kestrel will follow you through the trees. A family of four sharing pay £450 for one nightÂs B&B, gourmet dinner and falconry.
chiseldonhousehotel.co.uk.
Summer
Take a family cycling holiday in Holland. Staying on a hotel barge which sails from Amsterdam, in one week you will pedal on flat paths past windmills, visit a cheese farm in Gouda and play clog golf. The cost includes full board, bicycle hire and guide with Utracks.
utracks.com.
October
Become a game ranger for a day on a family safari in Zambia. YouÂll spot elephants, lions and hippos and you can , track animals on foot in the South Luangwa National Park. One weekÂs full board and activities, staying in a luxury lodge, costs from £3,300 per adult and £2,715 per child, including flights.
zambezi.com.
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