Suzanne Harrington: Gen Z travel differently from Gen X - not for them fleapits and bedbugs

Is it wrong to be delighted when your kids move out? Not so much delighted for yourself — although less mess and more space is nice — but delighted for them.

Suzanne Harrington. Pic: Andrew Hasson

The only thing I have in common with Madonna is a daughter called Lola. She has one, I have one.

When hers moved out to go to university a few years ago, she told an interviewer how she “cried every night for weeks. I would go in her bedroom and lay on her bed and cry, it was terrible.”