Time to sacrifice holidays for pensions?

This is the time of year when everyone used to pack up and go away on holiday. Yet for most people, fond recollections of two weeks spent on a sun-baked beach in Devon or Cornwall wielding the obligatory bucket and spade are but distant childhood memories. People's holiday aspirations nowadays are far more sophisticated. Indeed many are fortunate enough to enjoy far more than a single annual break, they tend to travel much further afield, often expending their energy on far more adventurous activities - and there are many who would pay good money not to go away at the peak time of the sc...