This week is National Breakfast Week. Isn’t breakfast the best meal of the day? I really enjoy it at the weekend or when I am on holidays with plenty of time to enjoy one of my favourite hobbies: eating whilst drinking coffee.
As long as I can remember, my favourite breakfast has always been coffee with croissants from the bakery. Wherever we go to, if we stay in a hotel, I always have a few pastries with my first cup of coffee, then I look at all the other options available.
Our holiday choices have changed a lot over the years. As a student, I would happily travel around Europe by coach, sometimes spending 24 hours or so to get to my destination, and then stay in a youth hostel, sharing a room with strangers, chatting to people from all over the world, eating dry toast for breakfast washed down with a cup of instant coffee.
Fast forward a few years and I met Hubby. We travelled a fair bit together and stayed in a lot of hotels, ranging from a cheap night on the French motorway to break down a long car trip to a luxury hotel in Doha. We would have breakfast on planes, in airports, in hotels, by the side of the road…
At the time, Hubby worked out some sort of set routine for our breakfast whilst away from home. We would go down for breakfast at the latest possible time, generally just before 10 a.m., and we would eat as much as we could, so we would not have to have lunch. Hubby was really serious about this little routine of his and he treated breakfast like a competition to engulf as much food as he possibly could. We had amazing pancakes with syrup and bacon in Los Angeles, noodles in Thailand and haggis in Scotland.
My favourite memory of holiday breakfast as a childless couple is definitely the bacon sandwiches made on a disposable barbecue during an impromptu camping trip to the moors in Devon. Those sandwiches tasted good!
Ten or so years and four children later and our favourite holidays are either a visit to family or having a house to ourselves. That way, we can really relax, enjoy being together and not bother anyone with our noisy brood.
I have fond memories of breakfast on the balcony with my mum and nan in France last summer. We also had moreish breakfasts during our trip to Scotland in October. Jumpy always goes for cereal first!
Whenever we travel to France or go the self-catering route, we could not possibly travel without teabags for Hubby and porridge for the children. We also sometimes bring bacon, beans and a loaf of bread to make a full English breakfast for my brothers and my mum when we go to France. They all love it!
Have you got a favourite holiday breakfast memory?
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My favourite breakfast moment was sitting on a cruise ship having a buffet breakfast overlooking Key West.
My mum in law came away with us to the east coast to a caravan she makes the most amazing English breakfast sausage bacon eggs the whole lot it’s the best breakfast you will ever have love her loads
That sounds yummy!
Excellent full English breakfast
Cooking sausages for hotdogs with tomato sauce and american mustard outside on a primus
Yum!
Our breakfast that we always have on our holidays in Spain are a the only time we really sit down together in the morning. We always have juice, iced cofffee and croissants. We pick the croissants up from the local bakery and it is the best breakfast ever. We never get bored with the same thing every day.
It’s nice having time to sit together and chat, isn’t it?
Me and my boyfriend staying in a caravan and munching on cereal and fruit and planning out our day every day!
I love planning days out whilst having breakfast on holidays!
My favourite holiday breakfast w as on a camping trip in France; no official camp, just a field, We had to wait for the milkman to deliver (warm) milk from the farm,along with the croissants
Oh that’s brilliant! Where was that?
Mine was cooking breakfast in the pouring rain whilst camping. Then going back into the tent and eating it with my friends whilst the tent was cosy warm and the rain was pounding on the tent!
It would be most people’s idea of hell and I love the fact you’ve chosen it as your favourite memory!
Every morning on holiday in Devon we had waffles with jam and clotted cream – yummy x
Oh yummy! Was it in a hotel? I’ve never had waffles for breakfast but now you’ve mentioned it, it sounds perfect!
No it was self catering and we had to cook them ourselves but I love waffles and pancakes for breakfast
Can I take you with me on my next holiday?
lol x
When we stayed at centre parcs on holiday we were staying with a big group or us and we all brought something different for breakfast and had a big buffet. The kids loved it
Oh that’s brilliant. I would love it too!
I remember a family holiday in France. Each morning we would go and get a fresh baguette and then sit on the desk outside the house in the sunshine eating it with cheese and fresh coffee. Amazing!
Fresh baguette with lots of salted butter has to be one of my favourite things ever!
I remember once when we went self catering to France my dad made cooked breakfast everyday, was really nice
Oh that sounds lovely!
For me it would be going to a festival with the kids, camping which I’d never done before, then making a fry up in the morning, I got there in the end
I’d love to take the kids to a festival. Which one did you go to with them?
Got to be bacon & eggs – lots of happy memories of my Dad cooking this when I was little as a special holiday breakfast 🙂
Eating Eggs Benedict on the Queen Mary cruising to New York whilst watching the dolphins swim alongside us.
I don’t think many people are going to beat that!
when i was little, Dad was the cook for breakfasts, when we were away he would cook brilliant fry-ups! it really started the day off, and stopped us from getting the munchies too early
I love a fry-up at the weekend. We tend to have ours around 11 a.m., so it’s our early lunch and keeps us all happy until dinner time.
BACON BAPS ON A CAMPING COOKER(NOTHING TO BEAT THIS BREAKFAST(ANYDAY)
So true! Same here, one of my favourite breakfast memories was during an impromptu camping trip.
When we stayed at the Summerfield Suites in Florida there was a restaurant opposite where they served buffet food for breakfast. One day my son came to the table with a plate loaded with ham, pancakes, scrambled eggs, waffles and a big dollop of ice cream on top. I hate waste so I made him eat the lot!
Oh yeah, now that’s breakfast the Florida way! I don’t know one kid who would resist.
Mine has to be in Buxton .. Me and my little one went to Buxton for a weekend break, and we enjoyed the most spectacular breakfast, because we are not used to staying at hotels this breakfast you were served by the waiters to your table to refill with a fry up and buffet. It was perfect!
Oh that sounds amazing! It feels like a real treat when breakfast is served at your table, doesn’t it?
Mine was when we stayed for two nights bed and breakfast in a 4 star hotel. To have so much choice for breakfast was amazing and the kids loved it. Even better…I didn’t have to make it.
I know… doesn’t a full English taste even better when you don’t have to make it? I also eat about double what I would at home when I haven’t had to cook, he he!
We stayed in a Barcelona apartment when Ry was a toddler and made an amazing Spanish Omelette – one of my favourite foods!
Oh yeah, I’m with you on that one! The best omelette I’ve ever tasted was just after we’d landed in Rwanda. My friend Ness rustled it up for us… just thinking about it is making my mouth water!
One of my favourites was just the other week when we had a few days away. We are self-catering fans as well with four children. I made baked eggs, topped with mushrooms and they were yummy. There was a rogue slice of jam on toast from the 7 year old and a couple of pain aux chocolates made it onto the table as well, along with fresh apple juice and hot chocolates. Heaven!
I’ll have all of it please! Self-catering is definitely a winner with 4 little ones, isn’t it?
When we were on a family holiday in Dorset I always seemed to be first up and took to having a peaceful early morning stroll whilst I waited for the others to wake. I discovered a lovely local butcher/grocery store in the village that opened at 8am in the holiday season. It became my ritual to walk down the beach, pop into the village and come home lliterally with the bacon – and eggs, sausages, fresh fruit etc and I would wake everyone up to the sounds and smells of breakfast cooking. It was lovely.
Oh wow, can you come on holidays with us? I’m not a morning person but I absolutely love waking up to the smell of a full English breakfast being cooked for me. Add coffee to that and I’m in heaven!
We have booked 2 holidays through HomeAway for this year! We love breakfast whilst on holiday, whether it be in a house, a caravan or a hotel! We stayed in a castle last year in Ireland and my daughter loved trying all the fruits, pastries and cereals. We stayed in a nice lodge in Suffolk in October and the children enjoyed Pain Au Chocolats and sausages and beans, or an omelette. Tom and I had smoked salmon and smoked haddock on a couple of days, a big part of our holidays is enjoying food together.
The places we have booked with HomeAway are Helmsley in North Yorkshire and Letterfrack in Ireland! So excited!
Lucky you! Those holidays sound perfect! We went to Ireland 4 years ago and it was one of the best family holidays we’ve ever had. Where was the castle you stayed at last year? That sounds amazing!
Hi! It was kilronan castle hotel and spa in Roscommon, it was a beautiful building, we had a wonderful dinner there one night – they did a nice kids menu but added little touches like their own amuse bouche etc and the views were beautiful! Had to wear swimming caps in the pool though which was amusing! I can’t wait to go back to Ireland – what I have seen if if is just stunning!
Oh my goodness, I’ve just checked their family room and spa… fairy tale material!
Isle of Wight (Issle of Wiget) as Dad always called it, bacon sarnies, cooked on a rusty primus stove, on a wooden picnic bench next to our caravan. Happy days ! No delayed flights. No Airport Passenger Duty charges. No queues for Security Screening. No having to walk through Duty Free shops to get …. ANYWHERE.
I also have fond memories of camping holidays! When you are so close to other people, you make so many friends, share so much!
When I was a child I always loved hotel breakfasts, especially the little jars of strawberry jam!
Oh, me too! I still do actually, but they rarely have the cute glas ones in hotels these days.
My best breakfast memory was as a child at a hotel in Paris called the George V – breakfast in the hotel room where they wheeled the table in – complete with silver domes on all of the plates – I felt like a little princess. ???
Oh my goodness, of course I’ve heard of le George V… It must be the most prestigious hotel in Paris! I’ve never been there but I can imagine breakfast was incredible there. Did you go for a special occasion?
It was a family weekend away in Paris. The hotel was amazing, certainly memorable, and I love Paris, but I think I have more happy memories from going away in the caravan to Aldbrough on the east coast and eating huge watermelons sat in the awning in Spain (suffering slightly from sunstroke !) ? I LOVE breakfast x
I love breakfast, too! I’ve noticed that a lot of people mentioned their best memories as camping trips. I used to love our camping holidays, too. Must take the kids on an adventure.
I have fond memories of Girl Scout (Guides to you) camp breakfasts. We’d always have cereal and other food stored in bags hanging from trees to keep animals away. We’d usually make (or try to make, depending on the weather) a fire to cook something with it (like eggs, bacon, sausages, toast). Something about the effort needed and waiting time always made it taste better.
Fresh air also makes you so hungry!
I remember eating jars and jars of Nutella as a child while on holiday in Italy – that’ll always stay top in my favourite holiday breakfasts 🙂
Nutella on bread or just Nutella on its own?
my best breakfast was camping in wales with the beans I cooked on the little stove and fresh eggs from the farm! Cant beat getting back to nature and eating in the great outdoors!
So true!
When I was 18 and travelling around Israel alone and on a very low budget, I slept on the beach at Eilat (after eating only a can of sweetcorn for dinner) and woke up at sunrise to the smell of some other backpackers cooking freshly caught fish over an open fire. They shared it with me and it was the most delicious food and wonderful experience.
That sounds like such a great experience! I bet you were starving after just a tin of sweetcorn the night before.
My favourite self catering breakfast is a continental style breakfast, I grew up in South Africa and have a memory of a really small, amazing bakery near Cape Town.
I loved having fresh fruit, in the sunshine, on the balcony of our room on a Greek island but breakfast on the decking of our luxury caravan, on the south coast of France on the first morning of our holiday, takes some beating – it was the look of excitement on my daughter’s face as it was her first ‘proper’ foreign holiday, that made it so special
Anything that makes the kids happy makes me happy too!
We rented a cottage in Cornwall last year. It was wonderful as was part of a farm. The farmer used to leave us fresh ingredients for an English breakfast on our doorstep every couple of days. Was the tastiest breakfast we had ever tasted especially the eggs!
Eating fried bananas with honey in Tenerife – I’m addicted now.
I love croissants for breakfast too – we’ve just had a fabulous holiday in Scotland with the best croissants I’ve tasted for breakfast each morning!
I loved breakfast every morning on the balcony of our apartment in Greece
When we went on holiday to Corfu we had a balcony facing over the sea. Every morning my mum would make a beautiful spread including different cheeses, grapes and then the more obvious toast and cornflakes. It was wonderful 😀
Fresh, warm pain au chocolat sat in a car park in chamonix in the early morning sun, surrounded by the snow topped mountains
Heaven!
My favourite is bacon butties in bed!
Best breakfast experience was a few years back when he stayed at a cute little B&B in Bath. The breakfasts were out of this world!
In a lodge in Cornwall, there was a BBQ on the patio – so having a mainly BBQ breakfast while looking out over the bay and sea – fantastic view and good food 🙂
Sounds fab!
Whilst on holiday sitting down at breakfast time together and discussing what we will be doing that day – normally we’re all up and out at different times so we don’t get to sit together for breakfast. Apart from the odd weekend.
When you can all sit together for breakfast, you know you’re on holiday!
Coffee for breakfast, sitting outside a tent, always makes me feel like one of those intrepid Victorian lady explorers. I imagine sunrise in the Serengeti, rather than gentle drizzle in the Scottish Highlands!
Oh… I would love to see sunrise in the Serengeti!
Sizzling sausages and runny eggs overlooking Loch Ness from the door of our tent – beautiful!
I bet!
We took lovely local bacon with us when we stayed in Northumberland. We then had lovely bacon sandwiches outside the cottage, next to a beck and a lovely forest. All very beautiful.
Sounds perfect!
camping holidays with my parents , breakfast was always yummy cooking outside, great memories
Minus 20 in Alberta waiting for my first day skiing and seeing a bunch of Scots walk past in kilts!
Was breakfast involved?
I used to love it when we went self-catering and my mum would buy a multi-pack of those mini breakfast cereals that you can still buy. Each day was a different breakfast and felt like a real treat!
My favourite breakfast memory is barbecuing the mackerel my husband had just caught and placing it in slices of the freshly baked bread I had just collected from the bakery in the beach cottage we stay every year in, and then having a lovely cuppa and watching the sea from the patio.
Lovely!
camping in the new forest and cooking a fried breakfast over a gas grill – interesting 🙂
Making an early trip to the shops for fresh Danish pastries, then eating them by the pool with coffee and OJ in our rented villa in Florida. It’s by the side of a lake, so we can watch the gators whilst we eat!
Learning to make the Aussie breakfast delicacy banana bread with my little sister while she was working as a nurse in Sydney, then sitting outside overlooking the Harbour Bridge to tuck into our fresh baking with a pot of Yorkshire tea
Croissants and good company – all we needed ?
staying in caravan on family holidays in cornwall, and the smell of bacon and eggs, wonderfull days.
Having a canal boat holiday three years ago on the leeds to liverpool crossing the pennines waking up in a diffrent area fresh cup of coffee with toast that was good enough for me!
me and my family in a caravan having a full english was lovely and such a treat
On a holiday in a French cottage with my hubby and two sons we used to have croissants from the local bakery which were to die for served with freshly squeezed orange juice and filter coffee all eaten on a very pretty terrace. It was bliss.
Letting my daughter dice up apples, banana’s, strawberries and grapes to make a family breakfast of fruit salad.
I love going on holiday to Spain and having fresh bread with butter and peach jam with their lovely milky coffee. There’s nothing quite like it and for some reason it doesn’t taste the same at home!
Breakfast in Gran Canaria with all the family- so much choice , so fresah , such vivid colours beats Weetabix!
We always self catered when I was a child in some very cheap (and occasionally nasty!) holiday places. The breakfasts we had were lovely fry ups with proper fatty fried bread to “set us up for a day sight-seeing”. I remember one cottage we stayed in where mum refused to use the rather grubby frying pan so had to buy a new one to use for our breakfasts all week. When we got home it was always a disapointment to go back to boring cereal or toast. Cooked breakfast was ONLY for holidays!
I adore the Greek self-catering breakfasts of cake and coffee but my best ever self-catering breakfast was camping wild on a beach on the East Coast of New Zealand. Brother in law went surfcasting at dawn and caught a snapper. Mum cooked it over an open campfire for our breakfast, along with billy-brewed coffee. I have never tasted fish as good as that and I doubt I ever will.
Pancakes on a camping stove on the banks of loch linnhe!
Warm chappati bread with fresh banana, plain yoghurt and brown sugar. Fresh, simple and very different for us…but we were in India 🙂
Camping at Tintagel, in Cornwall, full English with my hubby, son and daughter, warm morning. We cooked a full English, Sausages on the Grill, hash Browns, Beans and even manged Eggs and Mushrooms, lashings of tea. We sat outside overlooking the sea (see Trewethett Farm Caravan Club Site) and it was amazing, dogs were settled, plenty of time. Makes me smile thinking about it :)x
Scrambled eggs overlooking the english riviera
Fresh baguette, croissant and coffee from the bakery on the camp site in the Loire Valley
I remember the first time I encountered muffins on a buffet table, I was about 12 and on holiday in Canada, I thought it was amazing!
the best brekkie ever was in america pancakes and syrup they were yum
Baked beans and vegetarian sausages with crusty bread cooked outdoors when camping. Took forever and we were very hungry by the time it was finished – that’s why they tasted the best.
My favourite breakfasts have been on board ship. It’s the only time that I have Eggs Benedict, which I absolutely love.
Mum cooking the sausages a treat exclusively for holidays
Smoked salmon with scrambled eggs and a glass of good champagne, anywhere in the world!
My favourite breakfast memory is when my partner and I visited South Africa. We stayed in a beautiful hotel on the harbour front in Cape Town. We ate our breakfast outside with a stunning view of Table Mountain as our backdrop. Simply beautiful.
Croissants from a small bakery in France x
In Florida last year we had pancakes, squirty cream and fresh strawberries. There was me, my partner our son. Our son was so excited because we got to eat with Mickey, my son loved it and talks about it everyday, he tells everyone that he sees.
Cooking bacon on a camping stove for the family during camping trips! Xx
My favourite memory is when I was lucky enough to be staying at a hotel in Monte Carlo. We had breakfast outside on a beautiful sunny day in May, next to the swimming pool, overlooking the harbour! Perfect!
I enjoy making my own pancakes with golden syrup and bananas but my all time favourite has to be a pot of coffee and French toast.
Visiting my daughter in New York for the first time, and having a breakfast of lemon and ricotta pancakes with blackberries at Sarabeth’s restaurant in Tribeca. Very special memories.
One of my favourite breakfast memories with the family was in Lake Maggiore, in Italy. I woke up to an incredible view the sun beaming on the lake and the smell of fresh Italian coffee brewing in the kitchenette. The family and I had fresh croissants on the balcony from the local bakery followed by, in true Italian slice, a large slice of torta!
UK is no wonder a country that has amazed me to bits with its culture,people,scenic beauty and lovely weather.Out of all the lovely places that I have visited in the UK my best experience has been in The Esplanade Hotel, in Newquay,Cornwall. Amazing self-catering holiday breakfast and stay. With hot English breakfast, Fresh fruits and juices,toasts, tea/coffee,sea side view.Can’t ask anything more for a holiday.
The environment was very cosy and comfortable and Breakfast being the first and most important meal of the day.If a self catering hotel like that impresses you then your entire day goes well and makes you want to come back again and again and it becomes an example for every hotel you want to go to.
My best self catering breakfast was recently at bluestone national park. We ordered a hamper to be in our lodge on arrival as with three girls it was easier than trying to pack it all in the car! We had lovely local sausages, eggs and bacon, plus bread for toast and the obligatory sauces!! ? It was lovely as we didn’t have to go to the shops to buy it all!! ?
Loved getting pain au chococlat fresh from the bakery on our haven france and eurocamp hols as a kid
Making a full English breakfast on a BBQ outside our caravan in Dorset
My best breakfast was in a cafe in Sweden that we had skied to, looking around at the wonderful views and the quietness of it all amongst the mountains, bliss.
The full continental breakfast in Disneyland Paris when my daughter was 5, as she was so excited as next we were off to see all the Princessess & Mickey Mouse in the park
My favourite breakfast memory is waking up on very cold and snowy days while I’m visiting my grandma in the mountains. She always makes sure me and my family are enjoying a nice warm breakfast prepared for us with lots of love!
Full English breakfast made with all local ingredients in a little cottage on the North Yorkshire coast
Some of the hotels in Barcelona have the greatest breakfast buffets. Everything you need to keep everyone happy, whether you want just toast and cereal, rolls and pastries, full English or omelettes cooked to order, all washed down with a vast array of hot and cold drinks. As others have said, time it right and it’ll keep you going until dinner (with maybe a little ice cream along the way!).
So many good breakfast moments but when we first married we used to spend as many weekends in an old caravan in Bridlington. I used to make omelettes and you could buy little tins of stuff to add to the eggs. My husband still talks abut those little tins! I try to replicate them with chopped tomato, mushrooms and herbs. When we retired we moved here though our accommodation is a bit posher!
the best breakfast is when some one else has got it ready for me
My best memory of breakfast was the first time I went camping to the Peterborough Steam Fair many years ago, it was really frosty when we got up and the cooked english breakfast cooked on one gas ring was just what we needed to start the day
I always loved breakfast on Guide camp – cooking your own bacon, eggs & beans outside seemed like a real treat!
A breakfast that I shall always remember was during a trip to Milan with my partner…Our breakfast in the hotel was served in a delightful and traditional shoe box, with several compartments, each filled with tasty food…With scrambled eggs, meat, cheese, yogurt,fruit and croissants, it was totally unique to any breakfast we have tasted before..Very healthy too..
Full English is always good ,even better if it’s a nice day and it’s all cooked and eaten outside.
My best self-catering breakfast is when I can eat exactly what I want, with whom I want and when I want – bliss!
My favourite breakfast was eating warm croissants out on our chalet balcony in France whilst on a skiing holiday – stunning views and delicious traditional baked goods from that region, bliss.
We arrived in Puglia on a Saturday night, too late to go shopping for supplies. Luckily the owner of our trullo supplied us with all the essentials for our breakfast al fresco the next morning: a fresh loaf of bread, coffee and milk, locally made butter, an Italian soft cheese and a glass of home made fig jam. It was delicious! And just as well, as not a single shop, including the petrol stations, were open on Sunday.
If out camping cooking a fried breakfast on an open fire is fun and the smell leaves you eagerly awaiting your food. Being out in the fresh air makes you extra hungry so a plate pilled high is always the best way to start the day. When we go away to a campsite and stay in a caravan I love a hearty bowl of porridge and it only takes minutes in the microwave and it keeps you going till lunch
Eating scones for breakfast on a caravan holiday in cornwall! 🙂
My best breakfast was when camping with the kids the oldest two decided they were old enough to cook breakfast on their own for five of us. They started with cereal and then cooked a full breakfast it must have taken them about an hour and a half to cook it all. Their comment at the end was we ate faster than they could cook.
Full English sets you up for a long sun-bathe.
We made pancakes when we last went on holiday and had self-catering facilities
Staying at an idyllic cottage on the banks of Cowlands creek in Cornwall just as the estuary meets the sea enjoying fresh eggs from a farm, Cornish apple juice and lots of buttered toast outside with only the gentle sound of the tidal river was amazing.
My partner and I went on our first little holiday away in Bournemouth, we had been together two years and expecting our first child. We had our first scan the day before and was super excited to spend a few nights away together from home for the first time. The hotel we stayed in was amazing, but the most favourite thing was the breakfast! The selection of food they served was incredible! Fruit selection, consisted of water melon, melon, strawberries, oranges, apples, banana. Toast and a selection of different spreads. Then a hot buffet, so you could have a full english breakfast. It was simply amazing. I am now drooling at the thought of it!
i remember my mum waking us up early one day on holiday so we could see the sunrise and she took a photo of me squinting into the sun on the veranda then we went indoors and had a much needed breakfast after such an early start!
Outside our tent on a glorious sunny morning in Dorset. Cooking sausages on a one ring gas cooker, then eating them on cobs with brown sauce on the beach. Many years ago.
Freshly baked rolls from the local bakery
Croissants in France….loved our holiday there 🙂
Croissants and bowls of hot chocolate in France
Mines would be Disneyland Paris staying at the Daley crochet ranch loads of crossings ,jam, chocolate spread ,baguettes the kids had a yummy feast every morning
Every summer we go camping and the best tip is to keep it simple.
In 2009 we had a big holiday splurge and had an amazing trip to Kenya before starting a family. We went on a balloon safari but what we didnt know is after the early morning balloon flight we were to have an amazing buffet breakfast in the middle of the Masai Mara. The food was divine and the scenery like nothing I’ve ever seen before (but do hope to see again!) Eating breakfast sausage quiche and sipping champagne at 8am in the morning whilst watching Zebra and wildebeest graze near by was pretty spectacular.
my favourite was camping many years ago at a hot air balloon festival in Bristol. We were having out fry up at 5.30 in the morning before flying high
I remember when in France, I had pain au chocolat and a bowl of hot chocolate for the first time – breakfast bliss!
Our first family holiday we sat together eating pancakes bacon and maple syrup my youngest was convinced we were having breakfast with our pudding
My favourite breakfast was in Washington D.C at the Omni Shoreham
Chocolate croissants from the boulangerie in paradise as a young teenager
my favourite breakfast memory is eating bowl of greek yoghurt, honey and fruit sitting on my balcony in a beautiful hotel in Santorini with the most wonderful view – everytime i eat greek yoghurt at home i think about that now – and it never tastes the same!
Having breakfast in bed with an assortment of toast and different jams and a giant pot of tea!
We’ve made a habit of waking up early and eating breakfast together, although we both work from home it’s easy to get into a really bad routine. We try and mix up what we’re eating, but my favourite has to be the english breakfast.
we stayed on a farm in Tenbury and had fresh eggs we had collected from the hens 🙂 It was lovely to show the kids where their eggs come from 🙂
Where we go camping they have a fire pit! We cook the full english on a couple of little stoves and cook the toast on a long BBQ fork over the fire pit!! 🙂 The girls love it… If we’re feeling particulary nice and the girls have been good, we let them roast Marshmellows for breakfast 🙂
Cocktail frankfurter sausages, scrambled egg, and crispy bacon sitting by the beach with my family-in-law. Fed a couple of gorgeous stray kittens and definitely had some friends in them haha!
mine has to be our last holiday about 4 years ago making bacon sandwiches for us all in our caravan to wake the family up ready for the day, the smell of bacon always gets them up better than any alarm clock
My best breakfast was on my honeymoon in Ecuador, we had beautiful freshly baked bread, just laid eggs and the freshest fruit, so delicious!
My favourite breakfast memory is in a pavement cafe in Paris. You can’t beat French bread, croissants and people-watching.
Bratwurst and fried onions while travelling in Germany
Kippers fresh from the local smokery, with crusty brown bread and local farm butter
very fresh watermelon bought early in the morning from a local grocery shop in a small town in Italy
My favourite breakfast memory is from my childhood. We went to Spain & each day we drank delicious cold chocolate milk & fresh croissants from a local shop
Fluffy pancakes with maple syrup, crispy bacon and eggs over-easy in an American Diner in LA, whilst enjoying music chosen on our table juke-box. Absolutely lush.
eggs benidict
Nothing better than fresh coffee and pastries on any holiday for breakfast, even more special from a balcony on honeymoon in Jamaica 🙂
The best self catering breakfast we’ve had as a family was when we stayed at a campsite in France. Nearby there was a ‘pick your own fruit’ place. We enjoyed fresh strawberries, gooseberries and blackberries for breakfast in abundance! Fantastic memory!
One year we took our touring caravan up north and as it was quite a long journey we set off in the small hours of the morning. When we got about half way we pulled up in a layby and cooked a full English breakfast in our caravan. As well as tasting delicious out in all the fresh air, it was doubly sweet when we realised how much we had saved compared to buying breakfast in one on the service stations en route.
We bought a very old caravan and took it to Dorset – the first breakfast was by my husband – he did an ommlette with bacon, a potato, a bit of pepper, onion and a bit of cheese – leftovers from a salad the night before. It was amazing even though we had to eat it off tea plates with one fork and two spoons between us!!!!!
Fresh rolls, butter and apricot jam remind me of a childhood holiday in Spain
No fancy destinations, Dornoch in the Highlands of Scotland, absolutely freezing. Went with a bunch of friends when I was 16, all squeezed into a caravan with a one ringed cooker! Had the best pizza of my life there! Then we woke up and went on to the beach in the freezing cold as the sun came up and one of my friends wrote a poem in the sand. Very surreal moment 😀
collecting an egg from my grans chicken house ,then gran cooking me poached egg on toast
When i was younger my grandparents always brought me the snack boxes of cereal when I went to stay in their caravan, i thought they were amazing
My favourite holiday breakfast memory is eating Greek yogurt, honey and walnuts in Thassos. The yogurt was amazing and the views stunning.
Well it’s the most memorable as opposed to the best. We were staying in a log cabin on a golf course and I decided that I would cook a pre golf breakfast, I got everything ready that you would need for a full English including getting the pans out, anyway I turned the hob on but it didn’t seem to warm up, I was flumoxed and so were my friends, anyway after 45 minute of trying to get the thing on, we gave up and went to the restaurant. After the round I had another look and figured out that it was working but it was an induction hob.
Breakfast at the top of table mountain, SA. Stunning.
Not a memory as such but I do love buffet breakfasts in hotels, I have a cooked breakfast followed by coffee and pastries
The best self catering breakfasts always include croissants with butter and honey and pain au chocolat – both warm and delicious. Somehow it would be too indulgent to eat these if it wasn’t a holiday!
Favourite breakfast moment was sitting outside our cabin in Beaverland, Ontario and watching the chipmunks collecting our crumbs while listening to the birds and Loon ducks as the sun shone. Truly magical! Wish I could go back 🙂
whilst on holiday in Tenerife my then 2 yr old daughter would only eat strawberries for breakfast and the little shop/café where we frequented ran out…on our last day the owner drove to the other side of the island to get some ( this was early October )
On my honeymoon I had a champagne breakfast in a hotel in Sorrento. We sat at a table overlooking the Bay of Naples and Mount Vesuvius.
On a camping holiday in South Wales, cooking bacon, sausages & eggs on a portable stove eaten with fresh buttered rolls. Super x
Nothing better than an early morning camping fryup with bacon, eggs, beans cooked on a little camping stove
I enjoyed when me and the kids sat overlooking Lake Windermere enjoying a continental breakfast on the balcony of our hotel
best breakfast – crepes in Brittany whilst camping with the kids
Fresh apricot croissants and strong coffee on a terrace in Positano, Italy, looking out to sea. Perfection.
I used to make sausage sandwiches in spain and because the beach was outside our villa we would eat them by the sea with a glass of OJ
My best breakfast was definitely one winter on a narrowboat in the fens cooking bacon and eggs as my boyfriend steered the boat. Food always tastes better outdoors and the cold definitely elps work up an appetite!
One of our favourite self-catering breakfast experiences was staying on a farm in Devon, cooking a full English breakfast and laughing at the farm dog, goose and donkey who all turned up and waited by the door as if we were cooking for them too – it was even funnier that the donkey kept leaning over the stable door for strokes too (and yes, the dog did wheedle some sausages & bacon – we gave the donkey something more appropriate later on!) Other than that, bacon on our little Calor Gas cooker or over an open fire when fishing as it is nearly always freezing cold and lovely to have hot food – somehow tastes even better flavoured with hunger and cold.
We went to me orca and spend many an evening dining on the harbour x
Warm freshly made croissants in Paris early morning after a ‘heavy’ night out. Lovely!
Good luck everyone!
Self-catering breakfast on holiday would always consist of fresh fruit, followed by warm croissants with jam, and loads of hot coffee – preferably overlooking the sea!
Renting a villa in Spain in late autumn-a misty morning on the terrace looking out across towards the Straits of Gibraltar while eating ham and fried eggs and drinking freshly brewed coffee. Perfection.
We were on holiday in France and bought fresh croissants from a local bakery and had them with a nut spread that we had bought from a market. Never forgotten that.
I still remember a breakfast of eggs benedict in Brooklyn. It sorted out my hangover.
I think my favourite holiday breakfast memory was when we used to go to Mallorca and stay in a Villa. Every morning my mum used to make us toast for breakfast – and as there was never a toaster – she used to light the gas stove and use a fork to pierce the bread and cooked it over the flame! A simple breakfast but many fond memories – especially since my dad has passed away and we haven’t been back to Mallorca since! x
Full english breakfast for me, hubby & our 2 teenagers whilst looking directly out to sea from the deck of our hired caravan in Lowestoft whilst our 5 year old, (he has Down’s Syndrome), ran round the enclosed decking with his toast playing peek a boo with us all……fabulous!
I love having breakfast as a family when we get to stay in a caravan – cereal for the children, followed by nice fresh croissants and lashings of strawberry jam 🙂 x
My fave breakfast moment was cornflakes after a night spent ghost hunting in Pengersick castle in the B&B next door looking at the castle as I munched and thinking what an adventure .
When we were little Mum and Dad used to take us camping, and would make us eggy bread for breakfast it was always a favourite 🙂
A breakfast cooked in the country kitchen of a luxury b&b by the owner. Best eggs and coffee ever!
Pancakes in a diner on my first morning in New York 🙂
our first family holiday was in Sri Lanka when our little daughter was just 5 months old. we went to this local hotel for breakfast buffet which had over 60 dishes, fresh fruits, fresh smoothies, they would cook you egg how you like it and any amount. over looking the beautiful beach and it all cost us £7 for 2 adults and a child! the best breakfast we have ever had!! Oo and when you buy the breakfast buffet you get to use the swimming pool for free too. we just loved it!
sorry, ive never had a self-catering holiday yet! 🙁
Looks like you all had a good time. My favourite breakfast before I had to go on an allergy free diet, was when we took our son and his friend to Disneyland Paris and stayed in one of the hotels. The breakfasts had a huge choice (back 15 years or so ago) and I guess they catered for all nationalities as Germans eat sausage, cold meats etc for breakfast, the French have the croissants (oh i loved them and couldn’t stop eating those!) and we have cereal or the cooked breakfast. There were yogurts, fruit salads and everything you could want.
Going to the local bakery in France for freshly made pain au raisin.
My favourite memories of Self-Catering Breakfasts were in St. Lucia. Every morning we would walk to the local market, where we would buy fresh fruit and then would take it back to our apartment, and sit on the balcony drinking freshly brewed coffee, orange juice and freshly picked fruit, watching the beautiful beach and sea….
A lovely full English breakfast!
my mother in law is from tunisia and we have eggs cake and black coffee its so nice and we eat outside on her terrace
breakfast at Disneyland Paris with Mickey & Minnie Mouse our four kids were speechless with excitement!
Our little holidays at Center Parcs, we take my mum shes supposed to have a break but always ends up cooking us a full english every morning, we eat it outside whilst watching the squirrells run around
When I was in Australia one morning we went out sea-kayaking to an island and had breakfast over there. It was amazing!
Toast and strawberry jam in bed.
Breakfast in the Lake District on a patio with a view of the hills on one of the rare moments when it wasn’t raining was just lovely
Went on a girlie holiday. Arrived just before dawn. Made ourselves sausage and egg sandwiches. Sat on the beach and watched the sun come up and the locals go by in their boats.
Fresh croissants and orange juice, sitting on the balcony in the early morning sun, admiring the views
Oooh yes. Sat outside in the gorgeous Morwenstowe (Cornwall/Devon) border having pancakes and bacon with maple syrup. On the front and both sides of the garden we had countryside and right at the bottom (where we were sat) we had a view of the sea in the distance over the fields. Plus there’s also the normal fry-up I had in Edinburgh – it wasn’t so much the breakfast but the fact that that was the day I was seeing my favourite rockband live after waiting about 20 years or so. 🙂
bacon sandwiches with yummy wholegrain rolls and lots of ketchup or brown sauce, sitting outside the tent on a clifftop in Woollacombe!
Awesome
Cooking breakfast on a little primus stove at camping site at Tintagel. It was very ‘hippy’ and a great experience for our young son and ourselves. The mist rolled in from the sea, the sounds of flutes and guitars as the other campsite people started their day, the colours of the hand painted, battered camper vans and the smell of primus gas and bacon. A bacon sandwich has never tasted as good.
Having a full English outside the tent overlooking Derwent Water
I sometimes travel for work and end up in International hotels. There you can have any part of a full english along with continetal and asian foods. ever had fried eggs and noodles for breakfast with some bread and cheese.. well I have 😉
My Favourite breakfast was recently, having a continental breakfast at the front of Emerald Sun River Cruise Ship going through the locks in Germany as we were heading to the beautiful Regensburg. Would love to do this again, it was such a beautiful way to watch the world go by.
Breakfast on the ferry from Ireland to France always makes me smile…especially sitting by the window watching the little boats going by. I always know that 2 weeks of relaxation is to follow!
American pancakes with crispy bacon and maple syrup – not in America though, just sat on our caravan decking looking out across the sea. Breakfast always seems to taste better with a nice view!
just have breakfast at the hotel, leaves the rest of the day / night to eat at varying locations as you see the sights and local activities
Going to South Africa and eating breakfast on the veranda of the lodge and watching the wildlife with my husband and my friend Beth.
When we were in holiday in Florida we used to go to an all-you-can-eat for $10 buffet restaurant. Every day we’d fill up on cereal, toast, pancakes, fruit, yoghurt & fried breakfast…then my mum would take extra bread, meat, fruit etc & hide it in her bag to use for our lunches when we were at the theme parks!
Breakfast is always my favourite meal on holiday. But particularly I remember having a very early breakfast last year when we went to Marrakesh. That first morning, it had been raining, when the sun suddenly burst through. It was the most beautiful morning ever. Perfect for our first breakfast of the holiday.
When we are Camping we tend to buy the Tubes of Croissant Dough and then slice and put in the Halogen. This gives us delicious Croissants every morning without the cost of buying them from a bakers.
It was whilst on holiday in Mexico. The hotel had the most amazing selection of food for breakfast. Lost of love exotic fruits that I love.
We got some fresh kippers from the smokehouse at Seahouses in Northumberland and ‘jugged’ them the following morning in our cottage at Beadnell. Absolutely delicious with bread and butter.
My favourite breakfast memory was when a dear friend took me to stay in ‘The Grand Hotel’ in Brighton, their breakfasts were definitely the grandest i’ve ever had!
My best experience was at a cafe in Germany where they served a continental plater with breads, croissants. Cheese, ham, jam etc. The only problem was running round the table constantly hiding from wasps
When I was young our family didn’t have much money but we usually managed a yearly caravan holiday by the sea in Lincolnshire. Every morning my nan would make a full English breakfast and make sure we ate enough to keep us going all day so we weren’t asking for chips, doughnuts etc which we couldn’t afford. Even though times have changed and I have more spare income than my parents had I still do the same whenever we take a self catering holiday in UK.
My favourite indulgent breakfast is always Boxing day – I always have left over pud from the big day with lashings of cream!!!
My favourite holiday breakfast memory was flying to Cuba for our Honeymoon and waking up next to the beach with clear blue skies and ocean and being delivered our continental breakfast and just sitting outside taking in the beautiful scenery and sun.
When I stayed in the athletes village in London when I represented Wales in table tennis. They had everything there for breakfast cooked breakfast such as egg, bacon, toast, sausages, beans, mushrooms. Lots of choice with cereal and they had lots of fruit, bread rolls and different flavour yoghurts to choose from as well.
In Crete, on the balcony looking out to sea, while indulging in a breakfast of:- Fresh figs, date and Greek yogurt and honey. Yummy
I remember being on holiday in Filey when I was about 5 and having syrup on toast for breakfast.
Waking up, on a chilly morning after a night spent camping at The Witterings, to the smell of freshly brewed coffee and sizzling bacon made by our teenage kids, and eating delicious bacon butties whilst still wrapped in our sleeping bags!
Has to be a lovely villa in Portugal, wonderful beach nearby, in the Algarve, private pool lovely parade of local shops but the first we came to for breakfast day one was mrtins, a guy from England who was doing the full English, we did eventually find local cuisine but was amusing the closest place was a slightly upmarket greasy spoon haha
My favorite self catering breakfast was when we were in Cornwall Three families went together and stayed near the coast in a beautiful villa Three ladies made all different types of dishes We had a big choice of Full English, Indian and continental with a lovely view of sea
To save cooking we eat fresh fruit & pastries bought the day before from the bakery
On Islay in Scotland. Beautiful round house in February watching a storm sweep over the landscape while eating toast and jam.
Last year on a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Australia with my 12 year old son, the breakfast at the Intercontinental in Sydney was so amazing I ended up filming all the choices on my phone
When I was a child we used to go camping in Cornwall, and everyday for breakfast we’d go to the local tesco and eat in the cafe. Cocopops every day! Such lovely memories.
Camping holiday breakfasts are fab – bacon sandwiches and mugs of tea taste so much better outside X
In France staying in the Vendee..warm croissants and cheese and strawberries..delicious
Breakfast on a balcony in turkey overlooking the mountains surrounded by my familly.
We took our toddler to Cornwall from the Wiltshire countryside. Waking to the fresh air every morning and cooking fresh fish – so tasty and delicious. It makes my daily tea and toast pale in comparison.
My favourite breakfast moment was in Southwold Suffolk. We rented a beach hut and had an early morning swim before cooking a veggie breakfast. Lovely start to a day!
we had plain porridge 5 am in the morning before our attempt to climb mount Elbrus
I remember being on holiday in the USA when I was young and us having a traditional US diner breakfast with pancakes, maple syrup and…. bacon! Not a combo I was used to at all!
When we were children we used to go to a campsite in France and I can still remember the bread van driving through the campsite beeping his horn and the lovely fresh baguettes. We used to be trusted to go and buy the bread ourselves and it seemed such an adventure working out the francs needed!
I remember being younger and going away to Devon in a caravan and I would be woken up to the smell of sausages being cooked.
just being in the caravan away from it all over looking the beach on a sunny morning. Chilled out and relaxed.
enjoying a skottle breakfast in the kruger park, south africa, eating your breakfast al-fresco by the sabie river with elephants is amazing
Bacon and eggs on a rainy day in Devon..a good breakfast and good company is all you need
The best self-catering holiday I’ve ever had was in Devon with the Mum and my sister. It was ten years ago and it still sticks in my mind- we watched the sunrise on the beach at a ridiculous hour then went and made pancakes for breakfast!
I loved getting up and having breakfast with all my family outside on the terrace in Spain. Both my parents and my 3 sisters were there and it was a great little family reunion with freshly squeeze orange juice (we bought the oranges at the market the day before) as well as home made crepes!
The first breakfast on the terrace of the apartment in the Algarve, cured ham, castello cheese, plum tomatoes, rustic bread, butter and to drink freshly squeezed orange juice and fresh coffee, the taste, the texture, the flavours and the colours are magical, there was nothing like it.
Yes, breakfast in Disneyland was great – just waiting to meet all the famous faces x
We hired a cottage in Truro last year and myself and my husband took my elderly father for a weeks holiday and it had a little balcony which was south facing and we had breakfast out there every morning and we watched the wildlife whilst enjoying our food and tea. It was wonderful
Best was my Mum cooking up a fry-up in a caravan holiday as a kid 🙂
We have only ever holidayed in the UK, so nothing exotic – but without doubt my best self-catering breakfast experience on holiday was when I was 11 and we went to the Peak District. We stayed on a smallholding, and for breakfast we had Kellogg’s Variety Pack cereal (what is it about those things, cereal is exactly the same but that was always one of the highlights of my holiday!) with fresh milk from their cows, and I got to collect the eggs from the chickens which I then had boiled!
Tea every time