My family have been dragging me to the South of France for as long as I can remember, and every year, try as I might to persuade them that it might be nice to visit somewhere new this year, they wear me down. This year however, I managed to reach a compromise, for about the first time in the last five years! We agreed that we would take just a couple of days out of our holiday in Nice to stop off in Paris for the Weekend. There were plenty of cheap hotels in Paris and it wasn’t going to break the bank. The rest of the family complained that it was a massive detour but I told them that they would benefit from seeing a bit of countryside!

As it turned out my whole family ended up thanking me for dragging them away from their sun beds for a couple of days. Paris was just as beautiful as I had always imagined it, and there was something there for us all. My daughters loved the fashionable shops and the shop upon shop of perfume, and my wife and I had a wonderful time wandering the back streets of Paris encountering some wonderful little boutiques. I think I justified my protestations of another two weeks of constant sun tanning on the med, and so much so that they have all agreed to go back next year – for the full two weeks!