Why burned-out parents are travelling solo post-lockdown
Have months of confinement got you secretly yearning to get away from it all? Even your family? You’re not the only one.
4 July 2021 • 5:00am
Tour operators are reporting a rise in bookings by mothers travelling solo. Wellness escapes are particularly in demand
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One bright June morning, before the world had woken up, I stole out of the house – guiltily, stealthily – and left London for the south coast. I felt like the Bolter from Nancy Mitford’s The Pursuit of Love, abandoning child and husband to chase my own hedonistic desires. Not, in my case, to seduce lovers without number, but for a two-day landscape painting holiday in East Sussex.