'I take my kids on 12-hour budget day trips abroad - with flights cheaper than a day at the museum'

A mum with a passion for adventure jets off on 12-hour trips by bagging bargain flights - and says it's cheaper than a trip to the museum. Catriona Lee, 45, has taken 10 city breaks over the over the years - including four in the past four months.

The mum-of-four loved travelling before having children and having a family doesn't hold her back now. The family get away for the day and have visited around ten countries using budget flights - including Italy, Germany, Morocco and Denmark.

Catriona bagged £25 return Ryanair flights for a recent trip to Tirana, Albania in March this year - and spent just 25p getting around on the local bus while they were there. Catriona, a charity worker living in Orpington, Kent said: "A museum in London will sometimes cost more in order to take them all out."

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"It works out cheaper to take them out for a day and they get to see other cultures and try different foods. They seem to really enjoy it."

Catriona got the bug for day trips prior to having children. She said: "I started going on day trips before I had children with my friends if we found a cheap flight. Then I had four kids so it got expensive but now two of them play football and the others get dragged around."

"I thought if there are not as many of us going it will be easier, and started going again. I usually look for the cheapest flight to places we haven't been before."

She has four sons - and two of them, Owen and Cameron, often join her. The other two, Flynn, seven, and Jackson, nine, prefer to play football at home with their dad, Jeremy Lee, 46.

They have only stayed overnight in one location for a 24 hour trip