With a bit of luck both my kids will be at Uni by Christmas, and neither of them will be able to miss lectures etc. And I can't very well tell my friend and her kids that they should miss school :lol:
I have registered for the early tickets for the direct Eurostar going out in the day on the 31st Dec and back at night on the 7th Jan, in the hope that the train will actually be running. But I won't know that until they contact me to sell me the tickets in July. And if my friend and her kids have made up their minds by then to come with us, I will buy tickets for them as well. Even Inghams don't know yet if the train will be running, as they don't seem to be selling Eurostar tickets for the 31st.
Plan B is to fly to Geneva and ski at Tignes Monday to Monday, straight after Christmas. That way no-one has to miss school or Uni. But I prefer plan A.
Ian, as you said, you have all this to come. Schools can do horrid things like arrange an assessed A Level practical exam for the first week back in January without letting the parents know. When my kids were young they did take time off school to go ski-ing. I used to fill in a form for the holiday and they were okay with it. And I'm sure they did learn more during that week than they would have done if they'd been in school. And I saved a great deal of money :D
Ally
