Four for the Road

Does a family who travel together, stay together? One mother finds out...2 teenagers, 1,600 kilometres, 7 days and a Mercedes Benz... what could go wrong? We are a family of travellers; I have always thought I had the wanderlust gene and hoped that I had passed it in to my children. I love travelling; it is all I have ever wanted to do. I dream about it, I plan it, I spend my savings on it. This obsession is greeted by my family with varying degrees of interest. So my announcement of the news-we were driving around England and Scotland in a few months' time-was met with slightly less enthusiasm than I'd hoped. "You'll see," I said. "It will be an adventure". Can a road trip be fun and memorable? "You cannot discover anything in life without first getting lost."