Just a few years ago, a 'city break' meant a lovely hotel, leisurely shopping, bit of culture, fancy restaurant or three, a lot of drinking, late nights, long lie-ins... How times have changed! Daddy had a work thing on the Friday night in Glasgow, so we decided to make a holiday of it and all tag along too. We found a central-ish budget hotel (family rooms aren't cheap you know), but not so central that I felt comfortable taking the kids out in the evening on my own, so while Daddy went out to play, sorry, work, we stayed put, ordered in pizza and had a grand time watching reruns of 'You've Been Framed' until bedtime at 9pm. Bedtime for me too, as being in the one room you can't really stay up while they're trying
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