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Why the midweeker is the solution to your holiday plans this summer
The joy of a midweek mini-break boils down to holiday mathematics: fewer guests plus less frazzled staff equals a more enjoyable holiday
3 July 2021 • 5:00am
It might feel like you re cheating the nine-to-five world, but isn’t that the whole point of a holiday?
Britain is full. Ask anyone who has attempted to go away for the weekend recently (me). Pent-up demand after a stinker of a start to 2021 and the new reality of foreign travel (where possible) mean local authorities may as well hang “No vacancies” signs on county borders across the nation every Friday until September.
Lake Bala
In whitewater destinations such as Slovenia, they pray to the weather gods for sufficient meltwater for rapids. In Lake Bala, mid-Wales, they cheat. A dam release on the Tryweryn river guarantees grade 3-4 rapids for every visitor to the National White Water Centre. It may sound hairy-chested, but it’s great family fun: either two hours’ guided rough ’n’ tumble or a rafting safari – a bobble down the lower Tryweryn, a swirl through ancient woodland, then bara brith and a cuppa in handsome Bala town. If that makes Lake Bala sound a throwback to traditional jolly hols, well, it is – elsewhere, there’s cycling and steam-train rides. Rafting costs from £90pp. Stay in Dolgellau at the Slate Shed (doubles B&B from £80) or opt for glamping in a yurt on the attached campsite, from £80, at Graig Wen.