A woman’s ramblings about being “stuck in holiday cottage with family” has humored users on Mumsnet.

in a post shared on the online forum under the username Thousandthingstosay, the woman provided a running commentary of day three of her family trip in the Peak District of North England in the UK, detailing the “highlights so far” in a series of bullet points.

While family vacations may be tolerable at best sometimes, the demand for travel in the US was reported to be strong in 2021, after a sharp decline in 2020.

According to the 2021 edition of the annual US Family Travel Survey conducted by the Family Travel Association (FTA) and the NYU School of Professional Studies (SPS) Jonathan M. Tisch Center of Hospitality, 88 percent of parents are “likely or very likely” to travel with their kids in the next 12 months.

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SAN DIEGO (KGTV) – Loved ones are grieving the death of a Scripps Ranch man after a wedding anniversary trip to Hawaii turned tragic.

Photos taken a week and a half ago, show a smiling Arnell David, 45, and his wife Sherill, enjoying the waters off Maui, celebrating their 12th wedding anniversary. Also on the trip: their 9-year-old son Isaiah and other family members.

Days later, the bliss would turn into something else.

“It’s a shock. It’s so heartbreaking,” said Noriza David, David’s cousin.

Late Friday morning, David and his brother-in-law went snorkeling off a beach at their resort in the western part of the island.

“Arnell loved the water and had done a lot of snorkeling … Where they were, you can still basically stand up. It was pretty shallow,” said Noriza.

Noriza says not long after they started, David’s brother-in-law noticed David appeared sluggish.

“Kind of bobbing there,

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A woman can’t believe how her sister-in-law behaved during a family vacation.

She consulted Reddit‘s “Am I the A******? (AITA)” forums for help. She and her husband invited her sister-in-law and her husband to an expensive Airbnb retreat. The Reddit poster and her husband paid for everything. They only had one request: that she leaves her dog home. The sister-in-law brought the dog on the vacation, so the Reddit poster left immediately.

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“I booked an Airbnb retreat for me, my husband, my SIL and her husband about four months ago. The Airbnb was not dog-friendly, and I made that perfectly clear, as my SIL thinks her dog should be welcomed everywhere, no matter the cost. She said she would find a dog sitter, and I had no reason to question it. The Airbnb was out of state, about 15

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Cindy Crawford is letting fans in on her lake vacation with a new jaw-dropping bikini photo.

All eyes were on the supermodel’s latest Instagram post where she could be seen rocking a white coat, along with a navy string bikini that showcases her sculpted abs.

“Apres swim ” Crawford captioned the post.

Comments flooded praising the 56-year-old, including one from her model daughter, Kaia Gerber who kept it simple, writing, “Hot!”

Another comment from Crawford’s official Meaningful Beauty skincare Instagram said “Our Swim-spo “

The supermodel also put her captain skills to the test when she previously shared a video of her driving a boat around the lake.

Crawford donned a baseball cap and an exquisite navy coverup that blew in the wind. “Aye, Aye, Mate,” Crawford said as she saluted the camera.

“Back on that #lakelife ,” she captioned the post.

Although she kept the location under wraps, it

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Welcome to The Upgrade, By The Way’s series on travel hacks and hot takes. See how to submit here.

Do you know where to find a three-eyed lizard? Or what the “tubmen” were responsible for in a whisky smuggling operation? Or how the Taiwanese chefs who prepare xiao long bao manage to put their delicious soup inside the dumplings? I learned all these things by doing something my mother warned me against: talking to strangers.

I’ve traveled pretty much every way you can think of: solo, with a partner, with friends and with my extended family. I have backpacked, crashed in dive hotels and indulged in high-priced accommodations.

As a former director of marketing for an educational travel company, I have read lots of “trip reports”— the post-trip evaluation forms that travelers fill out telling the operator what worked and what needed improvement, which experiences

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