Kirsty Blake Knox: Happy holidays — my tips for how to salvage a nightmare trip from the ashes

Give yourself permission to be bored. Photo: Getty

Kirsty Blake Knox

Sun soaked halcyon summer holidays — the best of times. But make no mistake, they can also be high pressure and high stakes. There’s all that money on the line, anxiety over potential flight disruption, the pressure to create lasting and cherished memories in a finite window.

And the underlying panic that your Airbnb host could turn out to be a scam artist and that condo is actually a cardboard box wedged behind a fried chicken shop. Just me? OK then.