We would like to go to Italy on holiday next year (either May half term or summer holiday). Our daughter will be 10 by then. She is really keen to go to Italy. She fancies Sicily, my husband Puglia, and I fancy Lake Garda. Or maybe the Dolomites. The main problem is that the main thing our daughter wants out of a holiday is to make friends - this year we have just got back from a campsite in the Dordogne and she spends a lot of time eyeing up potential victims before approaching, and can't relax until she has found a friend. And then doesn't want to come on outings as she just wants to hang out with the friends. This year we got really lucky as there was another only child (girl) of the same age there who was equally desperate for friends. My husband and I like holidays with a mixture of sightseeing/ activities and relaxing. Our daughter would spend the entire time in the pool with friends. Anyway, it is all quite stressful until she has found a friend, and then again when the friend leaves. I am trying to rack my brain to think of somewhere we can go in Italy that is likely to have other English children of a similar age (though last year she made friends with a french girl - she speaks a it of french but no italian). The only place I can think of are eurocamp type places like Bella Italia, or maybe a Kinderhotel in the Dolomites/ South Tyrol (but would this be mainly Germans??). So I wondered if anyone has any other ideas or any suggestions for Sicily or Puglia or recommendations of likely options? Thankyou!