Time to enjoy a holiday without the kids

Mairead Robinson enjoys the sheer bliss and luxury of a child-free holiday.

When I was a little girl I remember sitting on my parents’ bed watching my mother as she got out the evening dresses, dinner jackets and sparkling hand-bags, glamorous dancing shoes and of course her very best jewellery.

They were off on a cruise that included dinner at the captain’s table and ballroom dancing on the high seas to a full orchestra in a world where children just did not exist.