If you are going somewhere on holiday where it is BOUND to be bloomin' raining, what are you taking to amuse the kids?

[Enid]

apart from patience and cash obv

We have dds - 7, 4 and 1

am taking monopoly, uno, nintendo ds, lots of colouring books and pencils, blow up ball for dd3

we are off to Cornwall this Friday - forecast for Newquay at the weekend is cold wet rain. Am taking scrapbooks, new felt tip pens, pencils, sand pictures (good for half an hour), Knex, some toy cars. Might buy a little watercolour set as well. Afraid it will be completely inadequate!

Sunny in London now!

take grandparents

hopefully other children will be provided free and they'll just play out in the rain

oo we were in brittany

I did check out wet weather activities in north brittany - we were lucky and didn't have to resort to them

spill the beans pointydog, i fear i may be checking out the wet weather activities this coming fortnight

there's another brittaby thread under shorthaul I think

st malo aquarium
dol swimming pool
alligator park on way to mont st michel I really didn't want to go there but good for terrible weather
musee de la paysannerie near dol (starting to scrape barrel of ideas)

Are you staying out on your own, Enid or near other families?

Agree beach in wellies and raincoats ain't half bad.

On holiday this year we had rain nearly every day. But it seldom rains all day. Short bursts of the games/colouring during the heavy showers keps ours going (7, 5 and 4)

I'm sure it'll be fine

I tell you what was about the best trip (depending on age of kids). We hired a canoe for two hours and paddled along the canal on teh RAnce. Hire one at St Domineuc, good value and I liked the people running it. As it's a canal, completely still water, so peaceful, easy to paddle.

might float your boat

All the listed below and UNO. And MAgnetix. But keep the magnetix well apart from Gameboys etc...

Why do the French have this thing about Speedos. Are 'fluids' more contained or something?

all sound good. We're further along teh coast though, near Roscoff. Will look out for canoe opportunity nearby. The aquarium at Brest is meant to be good, but obviously gets very busy on a wet day.

dh looked it up, vixen. Apparently, it's to do with hygiene.

Didn't clear matters up for me

waterproof trousers are great for wet beaches btw. (A veteran of UK beach holidays here...[brave smile]

Today we have been in the park paddling pool in the rain. It was very warm. Just torrential downppours once in a while. I sat under a tree, wtith a thermos, a book and my MP3 and smiled encouragingly.

ah, yes, roscoff too fr

Are the speedos not to contain the pubic hair? Like swimming caps?

It's because shorts could be dirty from being worn outside the pool area, and so contaminate the water, not because the french like posing...or maybe not

oh no! really ceolas?

I thought so when DH had to wear them in Italy and we all had to wear caps. Hair clogs up the drains apparently.

I wouldn't go.

We are going to the Lake District and Cornwall in the next 4 weeks. BOUND to be raining. We are outdoorsy types and I have spent this morning checking all our wet weather gear, but there is only so many times you can make children walk or swim in the rain, so..............

Monopoly, chinese checkers and playing cards are essentials for us, as are colouring things and dvds - lots of them! (although one house does not have a dvd player........ so will have to learn to enjoy monopoly again!

when are you in cornwall? We're going 9th - 20th I think.

We are there from the 10th to the 24th. I am planning on taking my MN t-shirt but if the weather does not improve I will not be wearing it. However, if you see someone in a t-shirt with on it (how appropriate!) do stop and talk!

well yes! It'll be like Where's Wally! I will be easily identified by the fact that neither me or my kids possess a pair of crocs...

We will be in polzeath from 11 - 18th - where will you be?

Camping with two other families, 9 kids under 8. I will stick them on wetsuits and shove 'em outside.

We will take Uno, Top Trumps, crafty stuff, sticker and activity books and Yahtzee for the grown ups (although I still wince at the night my parenst and their friends nearly got us all chucked of a Swiss campsite when carried away by a drunken game of Yahtzee when I was about 9)

It has to stop raining eventually. PLEASE

oh megalegs - where you camping? We are looking for a campsite in that area for a cuple of nights. Then we are staying with friends in penzance.

Shit Megalegs, that is where we go....