I would love to know what you think is the best holiday you have gone on or what type of holiday you prefer to go on the most.  I have some staff members who have travelled to far more countries of the world than I have and I have done all sorts of holidays ranging from cheap holidays to very expensive holidays.  In fact, one or two years into my law practice I booked a tent in Kruger Park that could sleep 4 people and if I remember correctly the cost was R100 a night – probably the equivalent of about R400 a night now, or maybe less than that, and as the holiday got close I realised I could not afford it.  

I spoke to my girlfriend and she arranged her sister and her boyfriend to come with us on the trip so as to cut our cost down to R50!  I can honestly say that the over 100+ nights I spent in Kruger Park are some of the best and most relaxing times of my life and I have always loved Kruger although I dread the drive home.  

Anybody who has children will tell you that it is very hard to beat any destination that either has a swimming pool with lots of other kids in it or the beach – and the great thing about the beach is that beach holidays are generally pretty cheap unless of course you are choosing some fancy beach in Cape Town, which is pretty pointless with kids anyway, because they cannot swim in that freezing water!  I also loved holidays that I took with my family when I was about 10 to 13 years old where we used to go to the mountains quite often.  There is something about the mountains, the thinner air, etc that I love, and recently I went on a skiing holiday for the first time in my life.  I touched snow for the first time in my life probably only about 4 years ago and to have a white Christmas was tremendously exciting for me and my children.  

It is amazing for me that I first got to touch snow when I was approximately 43 or 44 years old and yet my kids have done it at the age of 6.  At the end of the day, I think that travel, relatively speaking, has actually gotten cheaper over the years in terms of air flights, etc, and I came from a very middleclass family where there were times for example we could not afford to eat meat and had vegetarian meals only for about three months.  It is not something I am embarrassed about at all – I think coming from less has always made me work harder than those who come from more.  There is also a saying, which is quite true as well in my opinion, that money cannot buy class and likewise, you don’t need to have money to have class.