Childhood family holidays were often spent visiting Fay’s grandparents: enjoying the city life in Edinburgh, where Sheila’s parents, Norah and Peter Clark, lived; or cycling round the countryside and exploring rivers, the beach and the forest in Newton Stewart, where Malcolm’s parents, Kitty and Jim Allan, lived.
The Isle of Arran was a favourite summer holiday destination for the Allan family in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s, and often there would be friends from Glasgow there at the same time, which added to the fun.
Several family holidays were spent in France, a country that had a special place in Sheila’s heart as she had spent one of her university years there. Other memorable trips were the Norfolk Broads, Cornwall and Majorca. Fay enjoyed trying out watersports, and would often be found waterskiing, rowing, windsurfing or jet skiing on holiday.
