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We have had some funny times on holiday! One year we went to Wales with our parents and grandparents and we'd made friends with another family. They invited us to their caravan and we watched Shine on Harvey Moon whilst listening to the man's really unfunny stories. My Grandad would be standing behind him and was putting matchsticks in his eyes to stop him falling to sleep, trying to make me and my sister laugh!
Another time we were on the beach in France and my mum, dad and my godparents were playing frisbee, the wind took one of my Mum's throws and it sliced into this elderly French lady, my Dad got a right mouthful and everyone else ran off into the sea!

My friend and I were relaxing after a long day sightseeing in Kefalonia. We were back outside our villa eating olives, gherkins and other nibbles and drinking ice cold wine. Enjoying the cooler evening air. We decided to tidy up, she went to get a bin bag and without a second thought I poured the jar of gherkin vinegar into my friends empty wine glass because I thought it might spill in the bin. She came back and as I carried on tidying I heard an enormous screech the wines turned, its gone off. Her head was over the sink and she was very close to throwing up all the nibbles. When I realised what had happened and that she'd gulped nearly the whole glass of gherkin vinegar down her throat I couldn't speak and nearly died laughing.

When my daughter was only 10 months old we took her to Cornwall on her first camping holiday, we didn't have much room in the car so couldn't fit a travel cot in, instead we improvised with a rubber dingy. One evening while talking with some friends we had made, we saw a little head appear from under the canvas door, she had escaped the dingy and was crawling across the campsite!!

I remember when I was a young 'un ... my mum was pregnant with my brother but no body knew. We went away with friends. Back then, i loved getting up on stage and having the attention on me (not so much these days!)

i announced to whole holiday park that my mum had a baby in her tummy and she was going to poo it out at christmas haha

Nice child I was!

Last year, we had our first family holiday abroad to Greece. It didn't start well! Firstly our flight was to Athens and our accommodation was 4 hours away at the south of the country and with two children who suffer travel sickness, plus toll stops every 10 minutes, that was a painful 7 hour experience!

We then get to the place I had booked online for the first few days of the holiday before moving onto a resort. I kid you not, it was like the Bates Motel. Rusted sign, in the middle of nowhere. Sinister to say the least. We went to dinner on the first night to find there was nothing for me to eat (I'm a vegetarian) and to add insult to injury, whilst I was sat there sulking, a praying mantis dropped on my head prompting me to dance round screaming for a good few minutes.

We almost booked flights home the next day, it was so bad. However we stuck it out and when we moved to the resort for the remainder of our holiday it was the most wonderful time of our lives, which we felt was quite deserved after all we'd been through!

We went on holiday to Brittany a few years ago. It had been raining all week so we decided to go to a local swimming pool. We all had our swimsuits on when a lifeguard approaches my husband and explained that he could not go into the swimming pool with his long baggy swimming shorts, that he needed the tight ones. My husband does not speak French so he very badly tried to explain that 'in England we wear these!'. The young lifeguard let him in anyway on the condition that next time he would wear the tighties. Needless to say that there was no next time.

The first time we ever took our children camping we were lying inside our old ridge tent ready to sleep when a broad West Country voice from outside told us not to worry "Moi Luvlies!" about the ferret that had just run under our flysheet.
We stayed where we were! LOL!
Never put them off and we enjoyed many more camping trips over the years.

A memory of my dear friend no longer here she had been suffering with depression so we decided to get away from everything and booked a short break in a caravan but nothing was as described the caravan was dirty the shops were miles away and there were no working cooking facilities after spending ages cleaning up we went to the local club and it was a bit unfriendly so we got some chips and headed back to the caravan only to find it had been broken into and everything even toilet rolls had been stolen we were both upset but especially friend with her depression so we decided to go home the next day I got off to sleep but she stayed up reading the next thing I knew it was 5am and there was an awful noise the caravan was Jolting and I couldn't make it out so went to investigate only to find my friend had been up all night and there was no point going to sleep because she gets up at 5am when she's at her home but she had made sandwiches for breakfast and had chucked the crusts outside the wind catching them and sent them on the roof so we got literally dive bombed with seagulls it was like a scene from Hitchcock's the Birds and it was this and my shocked face that made her laugh and she laughed until she cried which she needed to do and to see her laugh after all she had been through will stay with me forever it was the best thing ever.

We were having a day out at Wookey Hole when my children were young. Ben, aged 4, and not yet a swimmer, without warning jumped fully clothed into the deep end, he always was somewhat fearless. Unfortunately his father couldn't swim at that time either so it was left to me to jump in after him and get him safely out. We were both soaked and with no spare clothes, had to return home. I still don't know why Ben jumped in as we had gone to see the caves and didn't even know there was a pool.

The last time we visited Cornwall was about 35 years ago - before children. We went with another couple and were pleased to see a swimming pool at the complex of chalets we had booked. After a hot drive, we changed into swimming things to go and have a nice cool dip, to be greeted with the sight of a rather large, shaggy dog doing doggy -paddle across the pool. Somehow it didn't seem so tempting after that!

Tried jet skiing on a particularly dingy lake once on holiday and hubby accidentally knocked me off. Was in my shorts and tee so had to spend the rest of the day dripping wet! never done jet skiing since that.

When I was younger my older brother came home from Canada and decided we should all visit Scotland. I had never been and had always wanted to go so we jumped at the chance. He then told us we were all camping. We thought he knew what he was doing g but it became obvious he didn't when I woke up the first morning to a gurgling sound. It was his youngest, my nephew drowning. He had set the tent up at the bottom of the hill, pegged the bottom of the tent inwards, it had raised so heavy that the water had come down the hill into the tent. Because the tent was lagged wrong all that water came in instead of going outside. My nephew 1 year old had rolled off the air bed into a puddle. We spent the rest of that day in the launderette trying to dry the bedding and clothes and drive to our next site with the air beds on the roof to dry them. When he first suggested s holiday I thought of a lovely hotel, not soaking wet and driving around looking like the hillbillies

We were on the south coast of Cornwall and were going to drive to the North coast for the day. We loaded the car up, which was parked on the quay, and set off. When we arrived we went for a walk on the beach. It was very hot so we became very thirsty. Husband was sent back to the car to fetch the cool bag with the water and lunch in. He came back, looking sheepish. He had left the lunch on the quay on the south coast. When we drove back that night, it was still there, where we had left it. A family could have had a free lunch! It's a memory we always laugh about , even now, many years later.

I went away with my parents and dog, on the beach one day we saw a very large kite being flown and as my dog had never seen one before, he went mad. He was jumping up, barking to try and get to it with no avail. In the end he just walked over to their equipment and cocked he leg, he won in the end. We quickly made off before the couple noticed.

My Mum wanted to go on a camping holiday in Scotland and bought all the equipment - two tents plus an annexe thingy that went between them, a new primus stove, groundsheets etc. Dad decided it would be best to have a trial run so he spoke to a friend who owned a farm and off we went for the weekend. When we got there we were shown into a field full of cow pats. There was no toilet/shower block, just an outside loo at the side of the farmhouse and a cold water tap on the wall. We were kept busy fetching water and taking our baby brother to the toilet whilst Mum and Dad put the tents up. My sister and I were in one tent with the food supplies and Mum, Dad and our baby brother were in the other one. We got peckish after being packed off to bed and were delighted to find a bottle of salad cream and a fresh loaf in the groceries, we made salad cream butties for supper!

When my children were small we went to Portugal on a last minute holiday. We stayed in an apartment so on our first day went to the local supermarket to buy some basic groceries. Of course everything was in Portuguese so we figured we could easily guess what the products were. Two of the items we bought were a big bottle of milk and a bottle of washing up liquid. Got home and decided to make a drink and when we opened the milk discovered it was actually double cream which probably explained why it was so expensive. We then started to wash up the dishes only to find that what we thought was washing up liquid was actually disinfectant. We had to laugh and made sure we didn't make the same mistake again.

Long time ago had some broccoli which I just notice have turn out a bit yellowish. Last minute to cook, no time to get fresh one. So decided to snip the top of the broccoli (flower) and while cooking it, put some green cake colouring to disguise the colour. Got away with it but I will never do that again. X

We went to Blackpool and I told the kids that Valhalla was a short ride then a walk in caves... put it this way I was in their bad books for the rest of the day!

It was the last day of a three generation family holiday to Florida and we were all going around the villa doing the last minute checks. The cases were packed in the hire car and we really had to leave now if we didn't want miss our flight home.

Just time for one last little look at our holiday swimming pool where we'd had such a fantastic time and created some wonderful holiday memories.

Perfect timing for me to pretend I was going to tickle my 7 year old niece, where she promptly turned around to get away...

...and fell straight into the swimming pool fully clothed!!!

To say I was not a popular auntie/sister was an understatement!

I received death glares as my by now hysterical niece was dragged crying out of the pool, my rather angry brother was unpacking the car like a Tasmanian devil trying to locate suitable dry clothes and shoes (found at the bottom of the very last bag, as Sod's law would dictate!) and the villa owner is knocking on the door wondering why we hadn't left already.

A perfect end to a perfect holiday??

Well, in a way, yes. As it has become a tall tale recounted at every family occasion, and one which becomes taller with every retelling, "Do you remember when you tried to drown me?" etc. etc.

Sometimes it really is the little disasters that make a holiday truly memorable!

There is a few when we were children the time when my sisters and I woke up in the tent and it had rained so much we were literally floating on our mattresses, or the one where we sneaked off to the amusement arcades with my two older sisters and I lost my bank book !!! Thankfully someone had handed it in but I can tell you we laugh out loud now but it was a scary moment.... eps as we were not supposed to be there. Great fun on our holidays

Two years ago, my husband and I booked a city bus tour in Athens, Greece. We were told to wait in the hotel lobby at 7 a.m. and hop onto the bus when it arrived, which we did. First red flag? Our guide spoke only Portuguese. Second red flag? The bus stopped at a port, and everyone was herded onto a boat. It turns out that we, two 59-year-olds, had boarded a 12-hour party-boat tour of the Aegean Islands with a Brazilian tour group! We had no IDs and very little money, so we decided to stay put (instead of getting off at one of the island stops), drink a few beers, and get some sun. Lesson learned: Speak up at the first red flag.

never been abroad before i took my 11 year old son to Rome,we had a superb time but before we came home he said he wanted to return ''but be more romantic next time'', i agreed that applied to me too

WHEN MY CHILDREN WERE LITTLE WE HAD LITTLE MONEY SO DECIDED TO TAKE THEM CAMPING
MY HUSBAND NOT USE TO TENTING PUT IT UP ON A HILL IN THE MORNING WE ALL AWOKE ROLLED IN TO EACH OTHER

When I was about nine years old my family went on holiday to Hayling Island and my friend Diane came too. We had been on the beach in our swimming costumes and it was getting cold so I changed into my clothes holding the towel round me so no one could see. My friend then did the same, stripping off her costume, as she got her clean clothes out of the bag and dog came along and stole her knickers and ran off. I couldn't stop laughing (I know that may seem mean) and eventually the dog's owner managed to retrieve the knickers from the dog and bring them back. I have to say whenever I see here we still laugh about it now.

On our annual holiday to Abersoch (about 25 years ago) when my daughter was about 9 we were on the beach.
My daughter excitedly ran to where we were sitting "There's a jellyfish (on the beach)and it has huge testicles"....!!!!
This did make us all laugh and it continues to be a family joke all these year's later.