Cream Teas, Traffic Jams and Sunburn

The British on holiday: how can four simple words evoke so many vivid images, images of raw sunburn and relentless rain, of John Bull''s Pub (in Lanzarote) and Antonio''s Tapas Bar (in Torquay), of endless queues to get through security at Manchester Airport, or Gatwick, or Glasgow, or Luton, and endless tailbacks on the M5, or M6, or M25, but also images of carefree sploshing in Portuguese swimmi...