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All time best summer holidays: Part 2

From the Lakes of England to the hippy beaches of Goa

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Mark Jones
Sep 18, 2025
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The first part of this blog ended with us descending the Alps on a kind of luxury stretcher in the company of the historian Edward Gibbon. Our journey had taken us from 1st century Italy to the Grand Tours of the 18th century. Now we enter the era of holidaymaking proper.

A reminder. I am stepping into my time machine and setting the controls for various…

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