Family Holiday Ends in Casualty

It was a nightmare holiday in Majorca, dad was sick and I had blood pouring from my knee!” During the summer of 1994 James Tegerdine’s family of four went to Majorca for a weeks holiday but as soon as they left the house, trouble began. “The car broke down in Dartford Tunnel so we had to get a train and we missed the flight.” It didn’t get any better when they had got to the island and were relaxing in the sun beside the pool “I was running around the pool and then I fell over gashing my knee and had to have butterfly stitches!” However that was not the end to a traumatic holiday as the family were back in hospital again when James’ dad Pete was throwing up due to food poisoning – “I think it must have been a dodgy fish because he spent five of the seven days we were there in the hospital.” The holiday to Majorca just kept on getting better for James when he was playing with a ball which bounced into the road, “I was only six so I didn’t really know about it but I was a victim of a hit and run when a scooter knocked me over,” he explained (maybe it had something to do with the Spanish driving on the opposite side of the road?). Since Majorca James has been to Cyprus, the USA and the Caribbean but says nothing has been more eventful then the Spanish island. “Since that holiday, I’ve never been on Spanish soil again!”