We had an early summer holiday this year, as it will be the last year for 17 years that we get to go away outside the school holidays, and now that we're back DH has tasked me with deciding what to do and where next summer.
We have two boys who will be five and two and we're thinking of the last two weeks in August. We don't want to go anywhere too hot as one 34-degree day this year made us realise how hard it is to keep our blonde DC safe and cool without just hiding indoors. Having said that, I love a bit of sun, or at least warmth, on holiday and the thought of two weeks of pouring rain makes me want to cry.
The best holidays we've had with the kids have been Dorset last Sept, when we were very lucky with the weather - but we loved the southwest of England, a catered chalet for skiing last winter, and this summer we self-catered in a gite next to several others all occupied by English families with other small kids and there was play equipment and a pool on site.
I'm open to the idea of the UK, the northern half of France, Belgium (although we went to the Bruges area two years ago and I wouldn't want to go back there again that soon), Holland, Denmark or Norway. If anyone has any good ideas I'd love to hear them. I've done some research myself and come up with a few places in the UK and northern France, but ideas of other places would be great.