BRITONS evacuated from Rhodes due to wildfires do not know how lucky they have it, a family camping on the North Wales coast believe.
The Booker family who have been camping near Colwyn Bay since Saturday, during which time a month’s rain has fallen, believe both experiences prove holidays are now impossible.
Tom Booker said: “I feel sorry for those people forced to flee and leave their luggage behind. But we can’t leave the site. The car’s tyres just spin in the mud. We’re living off dry cereal.
“There’s a stream running through the tent. Our shoes squelch. Visibility is around 30 feet, not because of smoke but mist. I think Britons need to accept that holidaying is over.
“You can’t go to Europe, because it’s unbearably hot and/or on fire. You can’t holiday in Britain because we now have summer-long monsoons. You can’t afford to go anywhere else.
“We’ll eventually trudge home from here, caked in mud like we’ve been in the Somme, high-five our smoke-blackened neighbours back from Corfu, close our doors and never leave the house ever again.”
Daughter Ellie Booker said: “One day I will tell my grandchildren I was from the last generation to go on holiday, and it was shit.”
