Our final stop on the summer's travels was the only campsite we hadn't pre-planned, and choosing it reminded us of why we've been planning our summers ahead of time recently.

Lots of distance covered over the last few days, as we made our way from the Lake District all the way to inland Spain via Bracknell and the Portsmouth to Santander ferry.

We wanted to show the kids The Lake District, so we left relaxed Seahouses and headed west to a decidedly busier Bowness-on-Windermere.

Time to show the kids the Great British Seaside. Seahouses is a small, out-of-the-way fishing village and seaside escape with endless windswept beaches, fine sand, grassy dunes... and few people.

Maya's birthday weekend and we'd promised her something special, so we took her to Center Parcs in Woburn Forest along with a gang of cousins, aunts and grandparents.