Each year, more families are considering Mars for their summer holidays. The old inconveniences associated with travel and accommodation on the exciting and scenic Red Planet are fading fast. The crisp, bracing climate, gauranteed year-round sunshine, and picturesque boulders make Mars worth a second look. It has something for everyone: a switched-on rock scene, miles of unspoiled wilderness. There's something going on 687 days a year. And forget every-thing you've heard about Martians. With the advent of democracy and the five market, they've left their old ways behind them, have beaten their ray guns into ploughshares once and for all. There aren't more colorful and simpatico hypothetical life forms anywhere in the galaxy.