Latest topics | Welcome from Admin! Welcome to all of you!If you have managed to get this far you have done very well! I would like to take this opportunity to welcome you to The Missing Madeleine Forum. I would like The Missing Madeleine forum to be a friendly and welcoming place to all who manage to get here. In order for this to happen I need to set out a few rules as a starting point. 1. Please do not spam the boards. Spam includes linking to other websites for personal gain, writing posts that are unwarranted or contain items that are unrelated to the original post. If you have something to say that is not related to the topic in hand please start another thread. 2. Racism or anything related will not be tolerated on this forum. This includes any jokes related to a particular race. 3. No links to other forums are to be posted without consent from Admin. 4. Targeting other members in an aggressive or malicious manner will not be tolerated. If any member is found to be breaching any of these rules, their membership will be revoked and their ip address will be logged. If any member thinks any of the above is happening please PM Admin. 5. Members who come in and continuously lurk without posting any comments will be monitored closely. If they continue to lurk then they will be banned unless another member has recommended them and know who they are. I apologise for having to take this action but due to a few nasty guests who find it necessary to come into the forum to take comments and private information and post them on other forums for ridicule I am sure you will understand that I am taking this action for the good of all the trusted members already here. Thanks and please note - Admin reserve the right to update or change these rules as required. Mark Warner Family Holidays Sat 26 Jul - 16:15 by comperedna Probably someone will say that I have too much time on my hands, but I have been reading up quite a bit about Mark Warner Family Holidays, mostly in the Med. Originally I thought the Ocean Club in Luz sounded like some middle brow Butlins with guaranteed sunshine, for the unimaginative and unadventurous, but that is not quite it. The write up online reminded me of PGL's sporty adventure holidays for children, which our son and daughter went on for a week when they were aged nine and eleven respectively. Lots of 'activities' and 'coaching'... in the Ocean Club's case mostly tennis coaching, but to me the whole ethos seemed essentially juvenile, or at most adolescent. Then I thought... these were, as far as we can discern, culturally limited, fitness-absorbed doctors, one a cardiologist who had been involved in sports medicine, and both of them inclined to go padding around in shorts and singlets on organised, or unorganised 'runs' for fun. Online there were endless shots of adults on windsurfers, or in small sailing boats, or playing games of one sort or another, exactly like those of children in the PGL children's adventure holiday catalogue. Is that what many adults want to do on a family holiday? I find it very odd. The family aspect seemed to be all about 'choice of childcare' - various types were available from ages 2-17, but I think I read that with a small surcharge it could be available from two months old. I did not see any pictures of parents and children taking part in 'activities' together. The nannies were referred to for their excellence in childcare and their involvement in activities with the children, many of them rather similar to those which their parents took part in. At one point the description referred to children often enjoying the simplest of activities with the nannies, like jumping over waves, and that the children often liked to show their parents this skill at the end of the week. I found that pitiable. Perhaps there is a whole tranche of the population which goes for this kind of thing. No wonder there are no photos of the three McCann children on the beach playing with their parents and running in and out of the waves. I did understand a bit more about the Ocean Club and its type of appeal when I got to the end of the ads. The holidays are mostly about superannuated adult PE. Chacun a son gout. The Ocean Club was by far the cheapest of the venues I read about. All the above merely my own opinion about what I read, of course. Comments: 10 | Daily Trivia Quiz Statistics We have 478 registered usersThe newest registered user is Marky Our users have posted a total of 347154 messages in 20656 subjects Who is online? In total there are 120 users online :: 0 Registered, 0 Hidden and 120 Guests :: 1 BotNone Most users ever online was 717 on Sun 23 Oct - 19:12 |
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