Ohhh Algarve !!!! beautiful ! i want to fo there !!
The one i didn't like at all was summer 95, James was a baby of 1 month and the weather was hot hot hot and i spent 15 days in the family in the UK, did nothing special at all ! it was my first time in the UK and i wanted to do lots of things, but i wasn't supposed to do that because i was "tired"

And each time i left the baby to my husband's mother there was a problem ! it was just horrible !!!!
Oh and i forgot they didn't let me the choice but we took the ferry for 6 hours or something like that ... and trust me when you're sick on a boat that's really horrible ! I can deal with it for an hour but not more !!!
Since then, i go there only for one week or less ! and i decide and tell them before what i want to do ! Shopping to Oxford for example
What, for you is really "holiday" ?