Good ideas for teachers' summer holidays?

[chicaguapa]

I don't know if I've put this in the right place, but here goes...

DH has just gone into teaching and we're approaching a 6 week school holiday. We're not doing much this year holiday-wise, but it has got me wondering what holidays teachers go on, when they have all that time off.

I'm not talking about ways to get cheaper holidays, but ways to take advantage of having 6 weeks to spend on holiday as a family. For example, DC old HT has a caravan in Abersoch and he goes for the whole summer, which sounds great. I quite like the idea of spending a few weeks travelling around France in a motorhome, but they cost a fortune to hire.

Before I get flamed, I know it's not really '6 weeks holiday' and that teachers have a lot of preparation/ work to do etc. But it's still a chance to go on an extended holiday instead of the usual 2-week breaks.

Look after the kids. Do work for school. Week away. Look after sick elderly relative. Housework . See friends. Just normal stuff. Most of us are married to non teachers.

I take my children travelling. Usually South America but have done India and Southern Africa.

No husband to consider so it's just first week and last week in school then off we go to please ourselves :)

I used to be a teacher and to be honest we'd normally just do a week in devon/cornwall when the kids were young and then as they got older go abroad for 2 weeks.
In all honesty, I use about the last 2-3 weeks of my summer planning and sorting out for the year ahead so the 6 week summer was in fact 3-4 weeks.

I loved having the time to do random spontaneous day trips out and ususally had a week doing a DIY project like painting a room or trip to IKEA etc. FUN!

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