Overseas travel common amongst young Brits
British children are as likely to have visited Paris as they are London, a survey by thetrainline.com has found.
According to The Telegraph, the poll discovered that almost one in four children had visited the French capital by the age of 12, with a similar result recorded for London.
The research also showed that 85 per cent of British children had been abroad before reaching 12 years of age, with the average number of foreign countries visited by those aged between four and 12 being as high as seven.
Thetrainline.com marketing director Iain Hildreth commented, "It's amazing to think that British kids will have seen so many foreign places by the time they hit their teens."
However, the survey also highlighted gaps in the knowledge of young travellers when it came to British landmarks.
When the parents of the youngsters surveyed were questioned, only seven per cent believed that their offspring would be able to locate Stonehenge on a map, while just three per cent were confident that they knew where the Giant’s Causeway was.
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