The British on holiday: how can four simple words evoke so many vivid images, images of raw sunburn & relentless rain, of John Bull's Pub (in Lanzarote) & Antonio's Tapas Bar (in Torquay), of endless queues to get through security at Manchester Airport, or Gatwick, or Glasgow, or Luton, & endless tailbacks on the M5, or M6, or M25, but also images of carefree sploshing in Portuguese swimming-pools & lazy lunches in the Provencal sun? In this funny, acutely observed & engaging social history, Brian Viner celebrates the holidaying British, with their quirks & their quinine tablets, & their blithe assumption that the elderly man selling oranges at the roadside in Corfu, so photogenic with his walnut face & three teeth, must surely understand just a few, uncomplicated English sentences. He examines the fortnight-long cruise at one end of the holiday spectrum, & a day's rambling in the Lake District at the other. He looks at how the holidaying British evolved into the big-spending, many-headed beast we know today, by recalling not only the holidays that we took as children, but the holidays our grandparents, & their grandparents, took. It is a story that connects Blackpool with Barcelona, Mauritius with Margate. It is a story, indeed, that connects us all. ...

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