a fully-fledged father , some quarter of a century later wondering what had gone wrong , wash the minority of travellers flying , then hiring a car , rather than driving all the way .
it was at this point i discovered that we did n't have any hot water and the baby bath had a big hole in the bottom and no plug .
with stubborn determination i slung the youngest over my shoulder , grabbed some towels and trudged off to the shower block .
minutes later he had showed me the error of my ways in the way that only toddlers .