Stay calm and look fabulous: Holiday hassle and how to avoid it

Driving, packing, parenting while driving ... yes, summer holidays are here to torment us. Handily, so are Guardian writers on how to negotiate them

My holiday road rage is directed inward - at my own failures and miscalculations - although I accept it will not feel like that if you are sitting next to me. Sometimes these episodes are all I remember of the trips in question: running out of petrol halfway across a suspension bridge; the satnav voice that switched to Italian midway through a journey; that hyena I nearly hit in the middle of a hailstorm.