Teenage travellers bring about holidays from hell

THE OED defines holiday as a “period of leisure and recreation spent away from home or travelling.” 

The definition of budget airlines — “hell in a metal tube” — contravenes this, especially when you are travelling with 13-year-old boys. Not one, but two — the second one bought onboard to appease the first one, who doesn’t want to come on holiday at all, but has expressed a preference to stay at home with his mates, playing on his phone in bus shelters rather than playing on the beach in the south of France.

Contrary? Mary, Mary, you have no frickin idea.