"Who's NOT going on a summer holiday!"

THERE’S BEEN SOMETHING of an end-of-term feel to the Geriatrics’ Corner lately.

Maybe because it is end-of-term time, with the kids all looking forward to their summer hols.

Not just the kids, either, but the grown-ups as well.

Mr P the music teacher, for example, is off shortly to his favourite holiday spot – Iona, off the west coast of Scotland. “There’s absolutely nothing to do there,” he says. “It’s wonderful!”

Little B is off to Aysgarth in Yorkshire tomorrow for a couple of days, while PD is flying away with his family to his usual destination, in Crete.

Indeed, it seems everybody is going away somewhere – except us!

We’re still undecided about where we’re off to, if indeed anywhere.

“Are you still thinking of going to Lake Garda?” PD asks. We admit we have been considering it. “It’s just that I saw an advert in the Sunday Telegraph yesterday. A ten day holiday in Lake Garda for £580, flights and a couple of excursions included.”

My Good Lady though points out the problem with this though: “It has to be wheelchair accessible. And one thing I do know is that I can’t manage to get onto coaches.”

And it must be said, this is a major obstacle for us. And it’s strange how some parts of the world are better than others from the point of view of disabled access.

We had no problem at all with getting aboard the Rocky Mountaineer train in Canada last year – they just rolled her onto this lift contraption and up she went – easy as pie.

In other places – especially in Europe for some reason – facilities for disabled people can be almost wholly ignored, indeed almost to the point of resentment.

The one thing we have learned on our various travels is to plan ahead and to check everything – hence our careful study of potential destinations.

No doubt we will eventually get away, just nothing fixed up at the moment. We can only look at our friends’ comings and goings with a degree of amicable envy!