The Best Flight-Free Family Holidays, The Telegraph

Slow travel is enjoying a renaissance with more of us ditching jam-packed, box-ticking itineraries in favour of soaking up the scenery. Island-hopping by ferry or gliding through the countryside by train offers a pleasing antidote to our non-stop lives.

The last year has seen our love for train travel reignited. Bookings are up, train-bragging has crept into Instagram feeds, and tour operators are launching flight-free itineraries to destinations as far afield as Greece and Sweden.

Climate concerns provide some of the motivation for swapping planes for trains (and boats), but there are other reasons to go overland.

For families, flight-free travel is more practical. Transfers before dawn, never-ending security lines, and military-style packing regimes make for a questionable start to any holiday. And that’s before you climb into a small aluminium tube with the most hyperactive beings you know. Read on to discover 10 amazing, flight-free family breaks – and escape the hassles of air travel in 2020.

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