Emma Kennedy reads her account of family camping holidays from her childhood in the 1970s.


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0120090323In 1970, three-year-old Emma and her parents Brenda and Tony took their first family holiday.
It featured a tent, a bucket and an awful lot of Welsh rain.
02200903241972 was the year of the trip to Hadrian's Wall and rather a lot of cross-border matrimonial raids, all of which are doomed to end in tears.
0320090325Britain had joined the European Union and the matriarch of the Kennedy family decided that the time had come for the annual family holiday to be taken abroad.
Encounters with foreign food inevitably follow.
0420090326Emma's mother agrees that this year's family holiday can be to France, but without the tent.
However, the delights of being under a proper roof are soon replaced by a fear of nocturnal noises and strangers in the night.
05 LAST20090327Emma, now 13, takes her final family camping trip to France.
The perils of sunburn are nothing compared to the public humiliation that follows.

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