My family and I are phone addicts, so we've never purposely searched out holiday destinations with restricted Wi-Fi access. Then, a few months ago, we took off on a small ship for a cruise through the Bahamas. We were promised we'd be connected at all times, but it was not to be. Within hours of leaving port, the connection slowed – and then we were cut off completely.

Panic ensued. I begged the captain to unplug, to restart, to call someone, to do something. But no flipping of the switch was going to connect us for the next week. It was just my family of four alone on a boat with no entertainment except one another. There were no televisions, no phone connection, nothing electronic whatsoever.

Washington Post