Bromley mum who jets off on £25 day-trip holidays abroad gives top tip on best 3 months to travel
| Published date | 21 April 2024 |
| Publication title | MyLondon (England) |
Catriona bagged £25 return Ryanair flights for a recent trip to Tirana, Albania in March this year -and spent just 25p getting around on the local bus while they were there. Catriona, a charity worker living in Orpington, in Bromley, said: “A museum in London will sometimes cost more in order to take them all out. It works out cheaper to take them out for a day and they get to see other cultures and try different foods. They seem to really enjoy it."
Catriona got the bug for day trips prior to having children. She said: “I started going on day trips before I had children with my friends if we found a cheap flight.
"Then I had four kids so it got expensive but now two of them play football and the others get dragged around. I thought if there are not as many of us going it will be easier, and started going again. I usually look for the cheapest flight to places we haven't been before.”
She has four sons -and two of them, Owen and Cameron, often join her. The other two, Flynn, seven, and Jackson, nine, prefer to play football at home with their dad, Jeremy Lee, 46. They have only stayed overnight in one location for a 24 hour trip -to Marrakech -otherwise managing to get there and back in one day.
The family’s favourite destinations include Venice, Berlin, Marrakech and Billund, where the family had a trip to Legoland. Catriona said: “I would rather take them away all day rather than going to a one-hour museum or theatre show, which can get expensive. We just save all our money and do one trip every one or two months.”
The most memorable highlights for Catriona were in Albania and Morocco. She said: “We went into the desert, watched a fire show and rode on camels in Marrakech.
"I had never seen that before and there is nothing like that here. I would never normally find myself in a nuclear bunker in Albania or riding camels in the desert. They love it and they talk about it all the time.”
They recently went to Tirana, Albania where they travelled in off-road buggies and a cable car, and visited two nuclear bunkers to understand the area's...
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