(if you ignore the nude Dad swimming)
- The Daily Mail‘s James Delingpole headed for Sicily with his family in tow
- He spent a week at each of two lovely villas, both of them near Ispica in Sicily
- Holiday highlights included a tour of the glorious hilltop town of Ragusa
Don’t tell anyone — my teenagers would die of shame. But my favourite thing about our family villa holiday in Sicily were my 8am Embarrassing Dad nudie swims.
Each morning, ignoring my wife’s protests — ‘Oh really. Must you?’ — I’d stride starkers across the lawn to the cliff at the bottom of our garden, down the flight of steps and — splosh! — launch myself into the Mediterranean.
Then I’d swim out a hundred yards or so and gaze in awe at the empty bay, with its spectacular white rock pillars thrusting up from the sea bed. ‘Wow!’ I’d think. ‘We’ve got this all to ourselves for the whole week.’
Read the rest in the Daily Mail.