Antibes, Atut-Free Zone for Tiny Tots ; a Grown Up Holiday with Young Children On the Cote D'Azur? Wendy Holden Finds It Is Possible . . . With the Help of a Few Tolerant Cafe Owners

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AS EVERY parent knows, holidays with children are a contradiction in terms. Unless those children are thirtysomething, fabulously rich and have invited you, their esteemed parents, to stay at their glamorous villa with hot and cold running butlers, you are likely to have a thin time of it.

And the younger the children, the thinner the time. Friends with children the same age as ours (nine months and two years) have vowed not even to try going on holiday until they are at least five. This year, as usual, they will be sunning themselves on the Costa del Stoke Newington.

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Antibes, Atut-Free Zone for Tiny Tots ; a Grown Up Holiday with Young Children On the Cote D'Azur? Wendy Holden Finds It Is Possible . . . With the Help of a Few Tolerant Cafe Owners

My husband and I are made of sterner, or perhaps more stupid, stuff and, since our children were born, have had several foreign holidays a year.

Many have been in Antibes, which we had visited a lot pre- parenthood.

Knowing what to expect of both the town and its environs removes at least one obvious source of s...

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