Mediterranean countries are more child friendly, my ARSE!

[lagartija]

I am so sick of hearing this! We live in Southern Spain and it is raining today and there is NOTHING to do with a 1 yr old and a 4 yr old. No swimming, park is locked shut, no soft play, no museums suitable for little kids, no National Trust properties or stately homes to visit, library too quiet and kids bored after about 5 mins, no woods to tramp through etc. God, the UK is so marvellous for children I was never homesick til I had kids.
Sorry, feeling a bit ranty today.

alinta um, are you serious? Sounds like you're the kind of person who ignores children being polite.

I always take the time to reply to dc, what kind of a misery would you have to be to deliberately ignore a friendly child?

Someone suggested hotel pools. You can usually pay to use hotel pools when you are not a guest at the hotel, you just have to ask; and in the off-season, I should think that would be reasonably straight-forward to organise. Is there a nice hotel near you with indoor pool facilities? I have never done this with small dc, so I am not sure if that makes a difference, but as you say, dc are welcome everywhere there, you could at least try a few hotels.

That's quite a good idea, I'll look into that. Thanks.
What I was having a mon about trying to say before is that when people hear where we live it's all 2oh, so lucky, so wonderful for the kids, so uch better than crappy England" and I think it's cos they've been to the Canaries once on holiday or something and think it's like that all year. (My cousin truly believes it never rains here, ever.) And of course it can be good in the summer if you can go to the beach (otherwise 40+ heat not so nice) but MOST of the year it's not summer. Does anyone know what I'm trying to say?