Heard pontificating on BBC News 24 this afternoon, a talking head saying that holidays are one of the last things to feel the pinch of the current 'credit crunch', because it's difficult for parents to tell their children that they won't be having a holiday 'abroad' this year. Holidays 'abroad'? My parents have never left New Zealand. Holidays were at a camping ground about an hour and a half's drive away and we didn't think we were doing too badly.