The latest acronym on the block is SKI-er – older travellers cavalierly spending their kids’ inheritance. Those in the travel industry are using it to explain the increase in over-60s holidaying abroad. I’m one and very much enjoying it, too.
One of the great discoveries of becoming freelance was that, after decades of being tied to a four-week holiday entitlement (five for long service), I could suddenly take as much holiday as I wished, or could afford.
‘Oh you’ve just been on holiday again,’ people say when we return from four days in Majorca. Or: ‘You’re always on holiday.’
It’s not true. To
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